Much Early Scholarly Thinking About the New Digital Technologies Revolved

Multiple Choice

Much early scholarly thinking about the new digital technologies revolved around the assumption that face-to-face communication was superior to computer-mediated communication. This belief was based in part on the fact that face-to-face communication is___________, whereas computer-mediated communication is__________.

A) warm and fuzzy/cold and mechanical
B) immediate and direct/mediated or filtered
C) human-based/machine-based
D) face-to-face/ computer-mediated
E) context bound/not context bound