Volume 11, Issue 1, October 2005

1. Sharing or Piracy? An Exploration of Downloading Behavior
   Robert LaRose, Ying-Ju Lai, Ryan Lange, Bradley Love, & Yuehua Wu
   Sharing files through peer-to-peer networks is related to deficient self-regulation and the expected social outcomes of downloading, and is likely to continue.
2. Where the Action is: Internet Stock Trading as Edgework
   Detlev Zwick
   The computer screen alters investors' conventional relationship with the market, giving birth to the market as a place for experiencing risk as an end in itself.
3. Corporate E-Cruiting: The Construction of Work in Fortune 500 Recruiting Web Sites
   Jun Young & Kirsten Foot
   Career sites reflect corporations' attempt to sell a glorified image of work, one which positions workers as powerful actors and employers as kind benefactors.
   
4. Web-Based Memorializing After September 11: Toward a Conceptual Framework
   Kirsten Foot, Barbara Warnick, & Steven M. Schneider
   Web-based memorializing bears a diverse array of characteristics, only some of which are consistent with offline memorializing.
5. The Antecedents of Community-Oriented Internet Use: Community Participation and Community Satisfaction
   Mohan Dutta-Bergman
   Offline community satisfaction and community participation explain variation in community-based Internet use beyond that explained by user demographics.
6. "For she who knows who she is:" Managing Accountability in Online Forum Messages
   Charles Antaki, Elisenda Ardévol, Francesc Núñez, & Agnès Vayreda
   In a case study of a 'declaration of love,' Conversation Analysis illuminates how the structural resources of interaction can provide an analysis of accountable action.
   
7. Computer-Mediated Relationship Development: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
   Young-ok Yum & Kazuya Hara
   Korean, Japanese, and US Internet users exhibit cross-cultural differences and similarities in the association between self-disclosure and relationship quality.
   
8. The Influence of the Avatar on Online Perceptions of Anthropomorphism, Androgyny, Credibility, Homophily, and Attraction
   Kristine Nowak & Christian Rauh
   The masculinity or femininity of an avatar, as well as anthropomorphism, significantly influence how attractive and credible people perceive it to be.






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Special Theme: Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication

Charles Ess & Fay Sudweeks, Guest editors

9. Culture and CMC: Toward New Understandings
   Charles Ess & Fay Sudweeks
   This collection of articles was inspired by critical discussion of the frameworks for cultural analyses developed by Edward T. Hall and Gert Hofstede.
10. Culture and Internet Consumption: Contributions from Cross-Cultural Marketing and Advertising Research
    Marc Hermeking
    Cross-cultural marketing and advertising research reveal influences of culture on the global consumption of the Internet.
11. Culture and the Structure of the International Hyperlink Network
    George A. Barnett & Eunjung Sung
    National culture is significantly related to network centrality and the overall structure of the Internet.
12. Cultural Similarities and Differences in the Design of University Websites
    Ewa Callahan
    Similarities and differences in web site design can be brought out through Hofstede's cultural model.
13. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Websites from High-Context Cultures and Low-Context Cultures
    Elizabeth Würtz
    An analysis of McDonald's websites shows how visual communication is used to support High-Context communication traits.
14. Polychronicity, the Internet, and the Mass Media: A Singapore Study
    Waipeng Lee, Trevor M. K. Tan, & Shahiraa Shahul Hameed
    Favoring simultaneous activities is not associated with Internet use, but it predicts Internet perception.
15. The Role of Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism in Online Consumers' Response toward Persuasive Communication on the Web
    Wei-Na Lee & Sejung Marina Choi
    Individualism and collectivism impact people's perceived Web skills and their attitudes toward Web advertising.
16. Culture in the Online Class: Using Message Analysis to Look Beyond Nationality-Based Frames of Reference
    Anne Hewling
    In an online classroom, it is useful to view culture as a process of ongoing negotiation.
17. "A Belief in Humanity is a Belief in Colored Men:" Using Culture to Span the Digital Divide
    André Brock
    Web content reproduces norms, rules, and power relations that may prove inimical to Black identity, culture, and information needs.
18. Cultural Cognitive Style and Web Design: Beyond a Behavioral Inquiry Into Computer-Mediated Communication
    Anthony Faiola & Sorin A. Matei
    People perform information-seeking tasks faster when using web content created by designers from their own cultures.