[Air-L] seek textbook recommendation on CMC

[Murray Turoff]

I forgot to mention one item i consider important.  In the new chapter I did
a morphological exercise to come up with the three dimensions I felt was
most important for guiding the design of different forms of CMC and I have
always found that very useful for pointing out to students why the nature of
the group and the nature of the application (a Delphi concept from the 1975
Delphi method book) influences the design of CMC systems.  These were:

1.  the degree of problem complexity from the classic IS literature on the
design of information systems.
2.  the nature of evidence (C.W. Churchman) with the addition of "negotiated
reality" form management science (marketing and behavior, non scientific
evidence).
3.  An  extension of Thomasa's? dimensions of organizational communication
types between units or "groups" in the organizations.

there are sample group problems used to illustrate the differences for the
first two and a sample of how voting is used very differently to do many
things/objectives beyond reaching a consensus.  Most students (and some
faculty) never seem to realize this until it is explained to them.


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Murray Turoff <murray.turoff at gmail.com>wrote:

>  <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>For some wonderful reference, historical, and
> foundation material for lectures you should look at
> The Network Nation:  Human Communication via Computers (revised 1993, MIT
> press) which can still be ordered at a very reasonable
> price compared to most text books.    It provides a lot of material on work
> done before CMC in many fields that was relevant as well as some ways of
> thinking about the technology you will not find in most places as well as
> all the very early work that most students never hear about.   The authors
> were Hiltz and turoff and the original edition was 1978.   The 1993 as a new
> chapter summarizing the next 15 years.   the cost benefit analysis done in
> the book seems to have been forgotten and serves as a very good lecture.
> So does the early related work in psychology and sociology.  The interesting
> aspect were the predictions in the issue of the Boswash times that began
> every chapter some of which came true and some which have not yet come
> true.  It sets a nice tone for the students to try making predictions about
> what might be the next prediction beyond current systems.
> --
> Distinguished Professor Emeritus
> Information Systems, NJIT
> homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff
> Visiting Scholar
> Carlos III University, Madrid Spain
> Nov. 2010 - May 2011
>
>
>


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Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Information Systems, NJIT
homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff
Visiting Scholar
Carlos III University, Madrid Spain
Nov. 2010 - May 2011