Courtesy Integrated Media Systems Center, USC
10(1) November 2004 Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Editors |
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6. Friendships through IM:
Examining the Relationship between Instant Messaging and Intimacy
Instant Messaging use was positively associated with verbal, affective and social intimacy. Frequent conversation via IM actually encourages the desire to meet face-to-face. 7. Effects of Perceived Interactivity on Web Site Preference and Memory: Role of Personal Motivation The authors examine two primary questions: the effect of interactivity on attitude and memory, and the role of individual motivation on Web site clicking behavior. 8. ICT Enabled Virtual Collaboration through Trust Virtual organizing suggests a set of norms enabling and constraining actions that promote a higher level of trust, critical to development and sustainability of virtual collaboration and optimal ICT use. 9. Interactive e-Commerce: Promoting Consumer Efficiency or Impulsivity? Online shopping might be influenced by impulse as much as by rational thinking about the conveniences of e-commerce. Interactive features of ecommerce sites may undermine consumer self-regulation. 10. A Methodology and Investigation of an eLoyalty Metric, Consumer Bookmarking Behavior Analyzing data from hospitality industry Web sites and a genealogy site, the authors demonstrate the applicability, validity and future research implications for bookmarking as an eLoyalty metric. 11. Strategic Choice of Electronic Marketplace Functionalities: A Buyer-Supplier Relationship Perspective The authors propose that buyer-supplier relationship-related factors can affect the choice of different electronic marketplace functionalities. 12. The Impact of Internet-Based Communication Systems on Supply Chain Management: An Application of Transaction Cost Analysis The authors examine the effect of new communication technology on supply chain management and propose that transaction asset specificity is the major factor to be considered |
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Courtesy Integrated Media Systems Center, USC JCMC, Volume 10 Issue 1 1. The Internet and Social Participation: Contrasting Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses Cross-sectional analyses show high correlations between the frequency with which respondents communicate with specific family members by visits, phone calls and email but longitudinal analyses suggest that visits drive more email communication, and phone calls drive more visits, but email drives neither phone calls nor visits. 2. Cosmopoliteness in the Internet Age The authors provide a general test of the notion that cosmopolitan individuals use new media, particularly the Internet, to explore other cultures, and profile the ways in which they do so. 3. A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research A virtual community is defined as an aggregation of individuals or business partners who interact around a shared interest, where the interaction is at least partially supported and/or mediated by technology and guided by some protocols or norms. 4. Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang Out Online This exploratory study empirically examines the importance of information seeking, social support seeking, entertainment and searching for friendship in assessing attraction to online communities 5. "Other People Benefit. I Benefit from their Work." Sharing Guitar Tabs Online The author reports the results of a study into a public space Internet portal which publishes guitar tabs (tablature) online, to examine what motivates people to participate in this activity and what benefits they get from doing so. |
