Electronic communication is a positive communicative tool that reflects a changing genre of interpersonal communication. Electronic communication is not constrained by communicative conventions that would apply in situations such as telephone and written communicative acts. Electronic communication allows for 'real time', it can be stored and it can be 'received' at a more appropriate time. It is at this point, that I introduce the negative sides of electronic communication. Perhaps, the most vital problem with electronic communication is that of access.
Electronic communication is predicated by the availability of resources - hardware.
The lack of availability for myself throughout the semester made certain aspects of this subject very difficult. A specific example of this predicament was for the Curriculum Resource Unit. Due to accessibility problems I was unable to E-mail my tutorial coordinator with an outline of prescribed steps to be undertaken in my assignment. It was at this stage that I had to turn to the somewhat antiquated telephone. Accessibility has been a big issue for me in this subject.