[Air-l] Re: Studies on email use and collaboration

[Uwe Matzat]

On 19 Jan 2005 at 9:38, air-l-aoir.org-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:
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> From: "Karim R. Lakhani" <lakhani at MIT.EDU>
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> Hi All,
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> I was wondering if people can point me to articles and studies on
> email use and collaboration - are there any studies that show how
> collaboration occurs via email?  Also any studies that look at how
> many recipients per message?
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> TIA
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> K
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Karim, I have done a study that analyzes the effects of the use of emailing lists by 
researchers, especially whether and how it enables them to make new contacts (weak 
contacts, exchange of papers, collaboration contacts):

Matzat U. (2004). "Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Transfer 
of Information or Creation of Social Contacts?" in: Social Networks, 26, 3: 221-255.

You can find a pre-print on my website.

Regards,
Uwe Matzat



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