- Online Infidelity: Aspects of Dyadic Satisfaction, Self-Disclosure
and Narcissism
Ilan Aviram & Yair Amichai-Hamburger
Two hundred participants who maintain a relationship in "real life" filled in online questionnaires regarding their dyadic satisfaction, self-disclosure, narcissism, and their Internet relationship expectations. The findings demonstrate the difference between online and "real life" infidelity and emphasize the importance of personality dynamics in online infidelity.
- Email as a Speed-Facilitating Device: A Contribution to the
Reduced-Cues Perspective on Communication
Massimo Bertacco & Antonella Deponte
Two experiments tested the hypotheses that people involved in rapid communication in a setting poor in sensorial stimulation would tend to have (a) brief and (b) egocentric exchanges. Email participants (fast and without sensorial output) wrote shorter messages and were less likely to bring up friendship-related memories than letter participants (slow and without sensorial output).
- The Influence of Synchrony and Sensory Modality on the Person
Perception Process in Computer-Mediated Groups
Kristine Nowak, James Watt & Joseph B. Walther
Consistent with the hyperpersonal model, participants in an experiment using low cue media felt their partners were more credible, and reported more social attraction, less uncertainty, and more involvement in the interaction than those using high cue media. People interacting with synchronous media felt increased social attraction, self reported involvement, and certainty.
- The Impact of Synchronicity and Civility in Online Political
Discussions on Perceptions and Intentions to Participate
Elaine W. J. Ng & Benjamin H. Detenber
A laboratory experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of synchronicity and civility on perceptions of online political discussions and discussants. The synchronous versions of the discussions were perceived as more informative and persuasive, and the uncivil versions were perceived as more dominant and less credible, although neither synchronicity nor civility had a significant impact on people's intentions to participate.
- Effects of Campaign-to-User and Text-Based Interactivity
in Political Candidate Campaign Web sites
Barbara Warnick, Michael Xenos, Danielle Endres & John Gastil
This study examined the effects on users of two forms of interactivity commonly found on political candidate campaign Web sites in the 2002 U.S. House election cycle: campaign-to-user interactivity, and text-based interactivity. Both had positive effects, but their co-occurrence confirmed earlier findings that too much interactivity can interfere with user recall of site content.
- Dimensions of Interactivity: Differential Effects of Social and
Psychological Factors
Dongyoung Sohn & Byung-Kwan Lee
Previous studies have measured and treated interactivity as if it were unidimensional. This study investigates how the latent factors of perceived interactivity differ in terms of their relationships with social factors such as social network density and frequency of interactions, and with psychological factors such as individuals' need for cognition.
- Expanding Hypertext: Does It Address Disorientation?
Depends on Individuals' Adventurousness
Moon J. Lee
This article investigates how individuals' adventurousness (a personality characteristic) influences their experience with different types of computer text formats and whether expanding hypertext, a new hybrid hypertext format, addresses the most frequently cited hypertext problem, disorientation. Participant adventurousness was found to interact with text format on participant feelings of disorientation.
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- An Exploration into Facilitating Higher Levels of Learning in a
Text-Based Internet Learning Environment Using Diverse Instructional
Strategies
Heather Kanuka
This action-research study involving adult learners enrolled in an online degree program provides support for the position that text-based Internet communication technologies can facilitate effective learning environments through the use of certain instructional strategies.
- "He Will Crush You Like an Academic Ninja!"
Exploring Teacher Ratings on Ratemyprofessors.com
Jeannette Kindred
This study examines students' motives for use and perceptions of the web site http://www.ratemyprofessors.com, one of the main sites that allow students to post anonymous ratings of college professors in the United States and Canada. The results of focus group interviews and content analysis of teacher ratings are presented.
- Exploring Web Usage and Selection Criteria Among Male and Female Students
Ananda Mitra, Jennifer Willyard, Carrie Anne Platt & Michael Parsons
Using a survey design with college students, this study finds that students tend to use Web sites that are clearly understandable, do not contain too many "bells and whistles," and are relevant to their special interests. Gender differences emerge with respect to evaluative criteria and use patterns, with men liking some of the "bells and whistles" and women using academic Web sites more.
- Researching Internet-Based Populations: Advantages and Disadvantages
of Online Survey Research, Online Questionnaire Authoring Software
Packages, and Web Survey Services
Kevin B. Wright
This article examines the advantages and disadvantages of conducting online survey research. It also finds that current online survey products and services can vary considerably in terms of available features, consumer costs, and limitations.
- Bloggers' Expectations of Privacy and Accountability: An Initial Survey
Fernanda B. Viégas
This article presents an initial snapshot, based on an online survey of weblog authors, of bloggers' subjective sense of privacy and of their perception of liability. When confronted with questions of defamation and legal liability, respondents in the survey expressed contradictions between their actions and their knowledge of how the technology works.
- The Journalist Behind the Curtain: Participatory Functions on the
Internet and their Impact on Perceptions of the Work of Journalism
Wilson Lowrey & William Anderson
Through a framework from the sociology of occupations, this study examines the consequences of increasing audience participation in journalism processes. The findings of a survey suggest that news audiences have continued to broaden their perceptions of what constitutes news.
- From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Virtual Community Discourse
and the Dilemma of Modernity
Sorin Adam Matei
This article analyzes postings to the WELL conferences that served as incubators and testing ground for the term "virtual community," revealing how this concept was culturally shaped by the countercultural ideals of WELL users and how the tension between individualism and communitarian ideals was dealt with.
Research Brief
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Hyperlink Obsolescence in Scholarly Online Journals
James Ho
A review of three well-established online scholarly journals revealed that nearly half of the hyperlinks in their articles are broken, raising questions regarding the archival integrity of the published material.
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