[Air-l] more net => more offline

[Guillaume Latzko-Toth]

I am also convinced by the many evidences that e-sociability doesn't 
replace classic forms of sociability and that people with mediated 
communications tend to be generally the ones with the larger personal 
networks.

However, what if we restrict the analysis to work hours? If the time-budget 
is fixed? It's been established that groupware uses are time-consuming. So, 
it would be logical to make the inference that more "intranet 
communication" means less communications the "older forms", wouldn't be? 
Then, the question is wether the relationships with co-workers, and sense 
of belonging to a group inside the organization, might be affected.

Again, thanks for those references. They provide a basis for reflexion and 
discussion. But I would be surprise not to find any allegation of the 
"negative impacts of CMC inside organizations" in the litterature!

Guillaume

>Barry Wellman writes:
>
>>PS: Nancy Baym discussed the Copher finding, "the more (online), the more
>>offline"  in Wellman-Haythornthwaite's Internet in Everyday Life. same
>>finding appears in Quan, et al and Boase, Chen & Wellman, altho we didn't
>>select articles on that basis. Pew studies find the same thing.
>>
>>As does Castells, et al in Catalonia.
>>
>>Bernie Hogan finds a softer version: Internet use doesn't seem to lower
>>other forms of communication (ASA conf, last August).
>>I am starting to think this is a reliable finding, at least in the soft
>>version.
>
>My colleagues and I also report the same finding in a college student 
>sample (more use of internet is correlated with more f2f and telephone 
>communication) in an article to be published in New Media and Society 
>later this year.
>
>Nancy