The big fancy scholarly term for what happens in OnlineCommunities. -- MikePence

CMC also refers to a lot of communication in networks/systems that are not (nor intended to be) communities.

Another common term is GroupWare

Goddammit, this sounds like the Wiki:PatternLanguageForTextualElectronicCommunications. A phrase that went to college. Sure enough, they were just trying to publish more Patterns papers instead of trying to do something useful.

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I've started a page on my wiki for analyzing CMC modes of operation: [UseTheWholeSpectrum].