Courses included " Computer Conferencing for Business and Education, " " Artificial Intelligence and Real Life, " " Ethics in the Technological Age, " " Science Fiction and Space-Age Mythology, " " Popular Culture and the Media ",
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The discussion groups blocked by Compuserve are among the more than 17, 000 electronic conference groups that are part of an anarchic and freewheeling international computer conferencing system known as the Usenet, which is distributed via the Internet.
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Around the time in 1992 when Walther produced and published the Social Information Processing theory, he and his colleagues conducted an experiment, examining the effects of time and communication channel asynchronous computer conferencing versus face-to-face meetings on relational communication in groups.
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For example, he describes the role of The Well, a dial-up computer conferencing system organized by Stewart Brand more than a decade ago in California that proved to be very influential in framing the terms in which the new technology was to be discussed.
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Examples of WELL-style Web conferencing software include : Backtalk, Caucus, COW, Motet, PicoSpan, Web crossing, WELL Engaged, and YAPP . Because of its influence on these programs, CONFER has had a strong influence on most of the major computer conferencing, blogs, social networking, and other similar programs and sites that followed.
