[Air-l] media comparisons

Sun Oct 29 16:41:39 PST 2006

heh - yep it's always about image isn't it? 

So now that the self promo door has been opened (or whatever metaphor is suitable here!) my research is directly concerned with the analytical, empirical and historical relation between "CMC" and older modes of networked communication such as the postal system. In particular it investigates how presence is constructed through email and letters:

on presence in email and letter mail:

‘Email and Epistolary Technologies: presence, intimacy, disembodiment’, Fibreculture Journal, 1.2, 2003, http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue2/issue2_milne.html. 

on 19th century visiting cards & SMS language and convention:

‘“Magic bits of paste-board”: texting in the nineteenth century’, M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture, 6.6, 2004, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0401/02-milne.php.

and on the aesthetics of postal communications: 

‘The Affective and Aesthetic Relations of Epistolary Presence’ in Louis Armand (ed.), The Avant-Garde under “Post” Conditions (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006), 160-177.

end of product placement! 
cheers,
esther

Dr Esther Milne
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122
AUSTRALIA
tel: +613 92148195
email: emilne at swin.edu.au 
www.fibreculture.org 
www.realtimearts.net/ 

>>> "Ronald E. Rice" <rrice at comm.ucsb.edu> 30/10/2006 10:53 am >>>
I am reluctant to be seen as self-aggrandizing (note that I am not 
necessarily reluctant to BE self-aggrandizing), but here are two of my own 
articles that provide both review and empirical comparisons of media 
(traditional and computer-mediated), with lots of references in both:
Rice, R. E.  (1987). Computer-mediated communication and organizational 
innovation.  Journal of Communication, 37(4), 65-94.
Rice, R. E. (1993).  Media appropriateness: Using social presence theory to 
compare traditional and new organizational media.  Human Communication 
Research, 19(4), 451-484.
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Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media
President of the International Communication Association 2006-2007
Fulbright Professor, Finland 2006
Dept. of Communication, 4840 Ellison Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patricia Lange" <pglange at yahoo.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] null hypothesis

>I cannot speak to differences or similarities between
> computers and other media, but I have argued taking
> care not to assume differences between CMC and
> face-to-face communication without empirical research.
>
> For instance, I've argued that there are similarities
> between CMC and face-to-face talk in terms of
> arguments, and that by calling certain phenomena
> "flaming" scholars risk bracketing off computer-based
> phenomena as automatically different from what happens
> in face-to-face conversation, before empirical
> research is even begun.
>
> So I argue for extinguishing the term flaming.
>
> http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/lange/index.html 
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patricia Lange, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Annenberg Center for Communication
>
> --- Sam Tilden <tildensam at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Most of the research in CMC seems to "assume"
>> differences between CMC and other media such as
>> telephone and letter-mail.
>>
>>   I have been unable to find research that clearly
>> delineates this difference. Can anyone help me here.
>>
>>   Sam
>>
>>
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