Editing Asynchronous communication (section)

== Electronically mediated communication ==
{{Further|Computer-mediated communication}}

Electronically mediated communication often happens asynchronously in that the participants do not communicate concurrently. Examples include [[email]]<ref>
{{cite book
| last1                 = Calladine
| first1                = Richard
| chapter               = A taxonomy of learning technologies: simplifying online learning for learners, professors, and designers
| editor1-last          = Khosrowpour
| editor1-first         = Mehdi
| title                 = Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Management: 2006 Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Washington, DC, USA, May 21-24, 2006
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=ybzS-yylJfAC
| volume                = 1
| publisher             = Idea Group Inc (IGI)
| publication-date      = 2006
| page                  = 249
| isbn                  = 9781599040196
| access-date            = 2014-09-03
| quote                 = Email and Internet Chat provide a good example of the difference between synchronous and asynchronous technologies. Email is generally responded to at the discretion of the user and hence is described as asynchronous. However, when in a Chat session each participant knows that the others are waiting for their responses. The resulting "conversations" are synchronous [...]
}}
</ref>
and [[bulletin-board system]]s, where participants send or post messages at different times than they read them. The term "asynchronous communication" acquired currency in the field of online learning, where teachers and students often exchange information asynchronously instead of synchronously (that is, simultaneously), as they would in face-to-face or in telephone conversations.