Barford, J.A. (1997, July), Balance or bias? Information Selection for the Researcher, Internet Research, 53-58. Barford suggests that all communication on the Internet is textual and the people communicating are invisible to each other. This means that communication is very different to that which takes place on a face-to-face level.
The implications of this are such that the ways in which people communicate, relate to each other and fuse together in relationships are altered. While these implications have been investigated on a larger scale, looking at issues of community the same implications must be looked at on an interpersonal level.
In her view, new technologies which have the potential to reshape communication are, nevertheless, always introduced into social contexts with existing forms of human relationships, values and m
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