Reeves+and+Nass.+The+Media+Equation

= Reeves, Byron and Clifford Nass. “The Media Equation” = // CSLI Publishing 1996 //. Print.

** Abstract **
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** Argument ** Reeves and Nass use the term politeness to build their argument against whether a society of new media still holds the same “rules” as regular society without new media. Through experimental trails, Reeves and Nass studied the human interaction with the computer and concluded that.

** Key Passages ** // Politeness // Page 2 “What ‘social scene’ do these predictions suggest?” This article was published in 1996, which shows that the social aspects of new media were brought up, even 10 or more years ago. // How Should One Think about Media? // Page 26 “People were polite to computers.” This section basically sums up that the results of the experiment were that people react the same way to the computer as they would in human interaction. // Rules of Etiquette // Page 33 This section examines the different ways of being polite with human interaction as well as virtual interaction with a computer.

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