Computer Mediated Communication

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Computer Mediated Communication.

• Ambient Awareness — Peripheral social knowledge that emerges as many small, recurrent social-media updates accumulate into a coherent sense of other people's activities, moods, interests, and availability without sustained one-to-one conversation.
• Warranting theory — A theory that observers give greater credence to information about a person when the person has less ability to manipulate that information.