Working with Robots
Professor Lionel Robert's research on robot-human interaction in the workplace is expanding the boundaries of computer-mediated communication.
Methods for analyzing online conversation
Professor Trena Paulus puts qualitative linguistic methods to new uses analyzing online conversations.
Are online citizen journalists a threat to journalism?
Professor Deborah Chung has been studying the contributions of online citizen journalists and their tensions with professional journalists.
Jannis Androutsopoulos visits IU
Professor Jannis Androutsopoulos visited Indiana University as part of the celebration of the 40-year anniversary of IU’s partnership with Universität Hamburg.
Welcome to the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication!
We are faculty and students at Indiana University who study human communication through digital media. On this website you will find information relating primarily to CMC research at Indiana University, although links to some off-campus events and resources are also provided.
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is the traditionally text-based - and increasingly multimodal - communication that takes place through the Internet, the Web, mobile devices, converged media, and private intranets. CMC dates back to the first email sent in 1972; it includes digital communication in educational, business, governmental, and other institutional and organizational contexts, as well as social and recreational communication. Social media communication is an important type of CMC, due to the enormous popularity of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Currently, AI-mediated communication is reshaping the CMC landscape, raising challenging new research questions and introducing powerful new methods of data collection and analysis.
CMC faculty and courses can be found in a number of departments at IU. Students interested in graduate study in CMC should contact the graduate advisor and/or faculty in the department most relevant to their background and career goals. A list of departments with CMC researchers at IU Bloomington can be found on the Resources page of this website.
Welcome again. We hope you find this site useful.
Announcements
Call for Papers: SPECIAL ISSUE of Language@Internet on Computer-Mediated Communication Corpora
Guest Editors:
Céline Poudat (Côte d’Azur University, France) and Ludovic Tanguy (University of Toulouse, France)
We welcome all papers related to corpus building and analysis, and all reflections on CMC data use and methods, including research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning.
Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 750 to 1000 words by June 30th, 2025 to: celine.poudat@univ-cotedazur.fr and ludovic.tanguy@univ-tlse2.fr. Proposals should include the central research question, the theoretical and/or empirical basis for the paper, and preliminary findings or insights. Those interested in submitting a proposal are also encouraged to contact the guest editors with their questions and ideas. Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by November 1st, 2025. The anticipated publication date for the issue is July 2026.
For more information: https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/herring/CFP_CMC_Corpora.pdf