This research examined learner behaviors, conflicting factors, and facilitating factors while students engaged in collaborative work via asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC). A total of 995 postings from 4 groups (19 students) in the spring semester (Study 1) and 6 groups (24 students) in the fall semester (Study 2) were analyzed. A coding scheme was generated based on constant co...

Analysis how to use Internet influence to the process of political communication, marketing and the management of public relations, what kind of online communication methods are used by political parties, and to assess satisfaction, means of communication and the services they provide to their party's voters (people) and other interest groups and whether social networks can affect the political...

Research on computer-mediated communication (CMC) vacillates between arguments that the medium of text is too barren to experience partners’ personalities, to claims that we “fill in the blanks” when encountering others online. This metaphor of filling in the blanks can be substantiated scientifically by examining data from several studies that demonstrate when and how CMC users form idealized ...

To achieve an effective and efficient way of disseminating information to ever growing communication channels, we propose an approach that separates the information and communication channels and interlinks them with an intermediary component. The separation enables various dimensions to reuse the information and communication channels in transactional communication. In this paper we introduce ...

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The Community of Inquiry (COI) theoretical framework suggests that successful higher education experiences are supported by the presence and interaction of cognitive, social and teaching elements. Since the COI model has been widely used for examining quality of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) educational interactions, its applicability to synchronous CMC interactions is rela...

Previous research has indicated that groups can benefit from the combination of face-to-face and asynchronous computer-mediated communication for conducting work. This exploratory experiment compares the effectiveness of four di~erent modes of communication for groups working on the upstream phases of sofhare development: (I) face-to-face (2) synchronous computer conferencing (3) asynchronous c...

Previous research suggests that ‘‘away messages’’ in instant messaging express informational and entertainment communicative goals while displaying a users’ identity. This study investigated the extent to which these communicative goals are reflected in the language structure of away messages, by examining the speech acts performed through the production of 483 away messages crafted by 44 parti...

Innovation of education is highly topical. It is obviously boosted by a range of new technologies, which enable new modes of learning that, are independent of time and place through Web-based delivery and computer-mediated communication. However, innovators in education often encounter intrinsic conservatism or even deliberate obstructions. For innovators it is important to be aware of and to u...