Vygotsky's Developmental Theories and the Adulthood of Computer-mediated Communication

Although Vygotsky's extensive use of evolutionary approaches and linguistic analysis has been replaced to a certain extent by cultural analysis and linguistic and cultural relativism, his perspective on the differences in developmental processes at work in the various genetic domains is still inestimable, providing the researcher with efficient tools for clarifying and possibly redirecting the ongoing developmental process in computer-mediated communication (CMC), shedding a new light on Internet exchanges and other CMC activities.