15.1.1.1 Principal Focus. This chapter will focus essentially on asynchronous text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC). By this, we mean email, whether one-to-one or one-to-many, e-mail-based discussion lists, bulletin boards, computer conferencing environments, and the growing number of Web-mediated manifestations of these types of communication. As technologies change, the forms of CM...

This chapter asks “What is meant by computermediated communication research?” Numerous databases were examined concerning business, education, psychology, sociology, and social sciences from 1966 through 2005. A survey of the literature produced close to two thousand scholarly journal articles, and bibliometric techniques were used to establish core areas. Specifically, journals, authors, and c...

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...

This paper proposes a comprehensive evaluation methodology to measure the usability and user experience qualities of accessible synchronous computer-mediated communication applications. The method allows evaluating how the interaction between a user and a product influences the user experience of those at the other endpoint of the communication channel. A major contribution is given with the pr...

For a long time, dialogue analysis has separated spoken language from written language. This dichotomy is valid in many cases as it is mostly parallel to the distinction of synchronous and asynchronous communication with the associated affinity to graphic and acoustic media, respectively. During the present decade, many forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have become widespread. With...

This paper examines the effect of social presence on learner-centered communicative language learning. Social presence is the “the ability of participants in a community of inquiry to project them solve socially and emotionally, as ’real’ people”, as defined by Garrison et al, (2004). We compared videoconferencing software which supports target expressions in English communication and face-to-f...

This paper proposes a data-model for the standardized representation of both synchronous and asynchronous text-based and other communications. Such communications are widely used in e-learning practice today, and have been studied under the rubrics of "computer conferencing," "Computer-Mediated Communication" (CMC), "Computer Supported Collaborative Learning" (CSCL), and many other names and ti...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.02.004 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Using computers with friends either in person or online has become ubiquitous in the life of most adolescents; however, little is known about the complex relation between this activity and friendship quality. This study examined direct support ...