In this article, the author first analyzes the social presence theory, media richness theory and taskmedia fit to investigate the suitability of various types of Social Media in disaster management. Then, on the basis of this analysis, use of social media is proposed to facilitate the communication tasks involved in the interaction between disaster management agencies and communities during dis...

There has been increasing attention in IS literature around the technology-business relationship and the concept of social alignment. However, little attention has been given to how or why social alignment should be developed. Further examining the concept this paper explores the development of social alignment within an innovation context. Using canonical action research the study is based wit...

This paper focuses on an extensive market analysis done under the framework of the Peach coordination action, a project funded by the European Union Future Emerging Technologies unit. The analysis identifies, classifies, reports and further elaborates on which areas presently benefit from Presence technologies. Taxonomy of these markets is also derived in this document, describing how and why P...

An increase of asynchronous online discussions in website provides much opportunity for L2 learners from different global communities to be exposed to the target language at their own pace and time. However, no research looking at the essentials of social presence and cognitive presence in creating a supportive learning environment in such a context has been done. This study investigated the pa...

As a novel opportunity to acquire capital from the masses, crowdfunding has attracted great attention in academia and practice. So far, little is known about the factors that promote the success of crowdfunding projects, however. In this paper, we examine in how far the social presence perceived on a project’s website influences the success of the respective crowdfunding project. Based on a dat...

Introduction This paper discusses the concept of 'connectedness', exploring its relationship with the concepts of 'social presence' and 'awareness', and arguing that although 'social presence' and 'awareness' have received most focus in previous research, 'connectedness' is, in fact, a more fundamental concept. 'Connectedness' is potentially a key concept in the analysis of communication and th...

Continuing social presence of the dead: exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation Louis Bailey, Jo Bell & David Kennedy To cite this article: Louis Bailey, Jo Bell & David Kennedy (2015) Continuing social presence of the dead: exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 21:1-2, 72-86, DOI: 10.1080/13614568.2014.983554...

In this paper, we explore ways to combine the video of a remote person with a shared tabletop display to best emulate face-toface collaboration. Using a simple photo application we compare a variety of social and performance measures of collaboration when using two approaches for adding spatial cues to videoconferencing: one based on immersive 3D, the other based on traditional 2D video-planes....

• Social relationships are commonly described in terms of physical space.1 • When drawing simple routes on maps, people draw paths closer to friends than strangers.2 • Americans overestimate the distance to cities outside the borders of the United States.3 • Inclusive social group words like “we” and “us” facilitate spatial location verification when attached to items shown proximately to a vie...