当今信息社会的显著特点之一无疑是通信技术的发展。随着接入因特网人数的不断增长 ,这种新型媒介正引起人们越来越多的关注。尽管在过去几十年中已有许多传播学家对电脑媒介传播进行过研究 ,但直到最近才开始有人将因特网作为其研究对象。近年来 ,包括许多传播学家在内的社会 One of the salient features of today’s information society is undoubtedly the development of communications technology. With the increasing number of Internet access, this new media is attracting more and more attention. Despite the fact that many mediaeologists have studied computer-mediated transmission in the past few decades, it has not been until recently that the Internet has been the subject of their research. In recent years, societies that include many communication scientists