Computer Mediated Comunication and communicative disorders

UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIAFacoltà di Giurisprudenza, Ingegneria, Lettere e filosofia,

Scienze politicheCorso di laurea triennale interfacoltà inEditoria e Comunicazione Multimediale

Supervisor:Prof. Paolo Costa

Co-examiner:Prof. Marco Porta

ACADEMIC YEAR 2008/09

Benedetta SalvadeoDegree thesis

Theories on CMC

RSC Paradigm• Sterile Communication deficient in socio-emotional content

• Deindividuation

• Equalization

• Flaming

Information Seeking

Approach

• Communication filtered by socio-emotional content

• Framing

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The two aspects of CMC

Internet AddictionAltruistic Gestures

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Cyberspace and new identities on the Net

Elisabeth Raid

•Identity playground

Amy Bruckmann

•Identity work-shop•Virtual Escapism

Sharry Turkle

•Fluctuation identity

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Situated Action Theory

The turning point: Giuseppe Mantovani’s interpretation

The Sat Theory:• The act of social actors in the context of virtual communication• The interactive environment becomes the product of social processes

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Personality disorder and communicative disorders

The Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto

theory

The interpretation of the cognitive school

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A comparison between two schools of thought

The Mind: the result of cognitive

processes

The Condition: personality disorders

The Therapy: focus on the

mind

The Mind: the result of linguistic

processes

The Condition: disorders of

the relationship

The Condition: personality disorders

VS

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Digital technologies for people with disabilities

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Speech synthesis

Optacon

Screen reader

Special Keyboards

Braille Keyboard

The Amanda Baggs’ caseSolving the enigma..

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The TV-Glad case

Caspar Ronax tv-glad Journalist affected by Visual

disabilities

“How to remain on the job

market thanks to media”

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Psycho/Techno/Logic/Mind

Knowing yourself within a virtual group

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The CMC will never match the quality of a

relationship face to face but can be a vital

support for those with communicative

disorders