• What are Baym's communication-related characteristics of online media? Do you find any of them relevant to your own interactions with family and friends online? If you have started your Consumption Analysis already, how well do these characteristics apply to the people you have met in the forums?
• According to Baym, how do online relationships compare to real-life ones? Do you find this to be accurate in your own experience? Do you regularly keep in touch with someone online whom you do not know in real life? How would you describe your relationship with that person or people compared to your face-to-face friends?
• What is the controversy over the use of the term "community" when discussing computer-mediated communication (CMC)? What do you think about this debate?
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