Recent technological advances have provided many youth with daily, almost continuous cell-phone and Internet connectivity through portable devices. Young people's experiences with computer-mediated communication (CMC) and their views about how this form of communication affects their health have not been fully explored in the scientific literature. A purposeful maximum variation sample of young...

CMC has been considered a “democratizing” technology; however, research indicates that CMC does not automatically result in social equality, and points to the importance of social and cultural factors surrounding the adoption of technology. Research suggests that CMC may impose a disadvantage to females, demonstrating lower levels of social presence. This study assesses the predictive relations...

Arguing against the common perception of technology as passive, neutral, and universal, this article presents a theoretical analysis of a commonly used and frequently studied technology—Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)—to illustrate how a technology that is often undistinguished in practice and research is indeed active, biased, and specific. We then report two exploratory studies that att...

PatchWorx (PatchWorx, Inc., Menlo Park, CA) is a nonprofit Web-based community for young people facing illness and disability (http://www.patchworx.org). Teresa Middleton, founder and president of PatchWorx, Inc., believes the PatchWorx online community helps children develop the skills necessary for them to successfully cope with their illnesses. Through computer-mediated communication (CMC) v...

Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) has brought about a revolution in the way the world communicates with each other. With the increasing number of people, interacting through the internet and the rise of new platforms and technologies has brought together the people from different social, cultural and geographical backgrounds to present their thoughts, ideas and opinions on topics of their i...

In this study, a social presence theory was examined to evaluate effectiveness of visualizing social interactions within computer mediated communication (CMC). The following three Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) were compared to investigate the relationship between visualizing interaction and enhancing the social presence of the user: a “time-series BBS” which displays writings in time-series; a “...

Texts exchanged in business-related Computer-Mediated Communication, or CMC, differ from texts exchanged in other business situations. CMC data have a high concentration of non-standard textual features. The fast-growing amount of business CMC data offers opportunities for the application of statistical Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning methods, especially for text-classification...

Emoticons are widely used to compensate for the lack of nonverbal elements in communication process. Extant literature focuses on benefits using emoticons a computer-mediated (CMC) context, whereas this research aimed investigate influence new product evaluation and explore potential boundary condition emoticon use. A user guide was designed examine effect knowledge acquisition context. The res...

Chat language is often referred to as Computer-mediated communication (CMC). Most of the previous studies on chat language has been dedicated to collecting ”chat room” data as it is the kind of data which is the most accessible on the WEB. This kind of data falls under the informal register whereas we are interested in this paper in understanding the mechanisms of a more formal kind of CMC: dia...