[Air-L] Research on multiple CMC environments

[Fred Stutzman]

These citations might be a good start.  They aren't all necessarily CMC 
studies, but they do cover the integration of multiple communication 
channels.


Shklovski, I., Kraut, R., and Cummings, J.  (2008).  Keeping in touch by 
technology: maintaining friendships after a residential move.  In 
Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in 
computing systems, Florence, Italy, 2008 (pp. 807-816).

Quan-Haase, A.  (2007).  University Students' Local And Distant Social 
Ties: Using and integrating modes of communication on campus.  Information, 
Communication & Society, 10(5), 671 - 693.

Cummings, J. N., Lee, J. B., and Kraut, R.  (2006).  Communication 
technology and friendship during the transition from high school to 
college. In Kraut, R., Brynin, M., and Kiesler, S. (Eds.), Computers, 
Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (pp. 
265-278). USA: Oxford University Press.

Mesch, G. S. and Talmud, I.  (2006).  Online Friendship Formation, 
Communication Channels, and Social Closeness.  International Journal of 
Internet Science, 1(1), 29-44.

Recchiuti, J. K.  (2003).  College Students Uses and Motives for Email, 
Instant Messaging and Online Chat Rooms.  Masters thesis, University of 
Delaware.


Best,
Fred




On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Alice E. Marwick wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for research on the interaction of different types of CMC - e.g. 
> how chat, email, IM, social networking, virtual worlds, blogging, SMS, mobile 
> etc. are used together as part of a communication environment by users. Most 
> studies I've found concentrate on a single aspect; I'm looking for work on 
> the use of two or more types of CMC by the same users.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alice
>
>

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