Module 2: Concept 21: Threading

Threading is what makes discussion groups - either Usenet news groups or, for example, this unit's discussion group (accessed from the home page or the learning space page) - so valuable for enabling complex inter-flows of communication to take place in a manner that allows us to see the pattern of conversation and response.

This concept refers to the logical flow of communication involved with discussion boards and newsgroups. The manner in which the communication on a certain topic and the responses are all filed away in an intuitive environment - accesible at any time. The software involved in this process attaches it own meta data to the meta data, one of the reasons these applications are so sucessfull.