- Communication Privacy Management in Electronic Commerce
Miriam J. Metzger
Consumers in online commercial transactions erect boundaries around personal information and form rules to decide when to reveal information, consistent with Communication Privacy Management theory.
- The Influences of Deception and Computer-Mediation on Dyadic Negotiations
Gabriel Giordano, Jason S. Stoner, Robyn L. Brouer, and Joey F. George
Individuals negotiating via instant messaging are more likely to use forcing negotiating, experience more tension, and have lower deception detection accuracy, but are also more satisfied, than individuals negotiating face-to-face.
- Evaluative Feedback: Perspectives on Media Effects
Stephanie Watts
A quasi-experimental test of a theoretical model of the CMC-based evaluative feedback process finds differences between the perceptions of feedback senders and receivers and between email and voicemail dyads.
- Using Peer Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Online Postings: An Exploratory Study
Peggy Ertmer, Jennifer C. Richardson, Brian Belland, Denise Camin, Patrick Connolly, Glen Coulthard, Jason Lei, and Christopher Mong
The quality of students' postings in online discussion can be maintained through the use of peer feedback, despite students' preferences for instructor feedback, and giving peer feedback reinforces their learning.
- The Role of Status-Seeking in Online Communities: Giving the Gift of Experience
Joseph Lampel and Ajay Bhalla
In addition to altruism and reciprocity, informational gift giving is also strongly driven by status and status seeking, and status sentiments are more likely to sustain virtual communities.
- Greetings and Closings in Workplace Email
Joan Waldvogel
Workplace culture is a more important factor accounting for the use of greetings and closings than are relative status, social distance, and gender of employees, as shown in this comparison of two New Zealand workplaces.
- Online News Credibility: An Examination of the Perceptions of Newspaper Journalists
William Cassidy
Journalists rate Internet news as moderately credible overall, but online newspaper journalists rate it as significantly more credible than do print newspaper journalists, with Internet reliance being a strong predictor of credibility.
- "People Get Emotional About Their Money:" Performing Masculinity in a Financial
Discussion Board
Andrew Herrmann
Members of a financial investment discussion board create and maintain identity and community through their discursive performances, which are predominantly reified and gendered masculine.
- RUOK? Blogging Communication Technologies During Crises
Mike Thelwall and David Stuart
An automated analysis of mentions of communication technologies during three recent crises--the London bombings, Hurricane Katrina, and the Pakistan earthquake--highlights the information provision importance for bloggers of Web 2.0 resources.
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Special Theme: e-Science
Nicholas W. Jankowski, Guest editor
- Exploring e-Science: An Introduction
Nicholas W. Jankowski
This article defines e-science, introduces the contributions to the collection, and includes suggestions for extending the exploratory work performed to date.
- Social Science and e-Science: Mapping Disciplinary Approaches
Ralph Schroeder and Jenny Fry
This article maps out the different social science approaches to e-science and provides illustrations of how they have been deployed.
- Critical Accountability: Dilemmas for Interventionist Studies of e-Science
Paul Wouters and Anne Beaulieu
The Virtual Knowledge Studio combines the goals of reflexive analysis with design of scholarly practices in a variety of fields; this article discusses this nexus and the tensions involved.
- Intellectual Property in the Context of e-Science
Dan L. Burk
E-science development is already encountering difficulty over the intellectual property rights associated with data and networked collaborative activity.
- Connective Ethnography for Exploration of e-Science
Christine Hine
A variety of information and communication technologies has become a routine part of disciplinary practice in the biological discipline of systematics.
- What Are Data? The Many Kinds of Data and Their Implications for Data Re-use
Samuelle Carlson and Ben Anderson
Data re-use requirements create difficulties for disciplines where tacit knowledge is deeply embedded in researchers and where data are derived from people.
- From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories
Nathan Bos, Ann Zimmerman, Judith Olson, Jude Yew, Jason Yerkie, Erik Dahl, and Gary Olson
This article presents a seven-category taxonomy of collaboratory types, illustrating each type and identifying key technical and organizational issues.
- Shake, Rattle, and Roles: Lessons From Experimental Earthquake Engineering for
Incorporating Remote Users in Large-Scale e-Science Experiments
Jeremy P. Birnholtz and Daniel B. Horn
Civil engineers' unease about using cyberinfrastructure technologies may stem from doubts about the ability of remote participants to detect failures adequately.
- Situated Innovation of e-Social Science: Infrastructure, Collaboration and Knowledge
Bridgette Wessels and Max Craglia
A U.K. project that explores the relative impact of individual and neighborhood effects on crime patterns shows that use of the Grid can produce relevant and innovative tools for the social sciences.
- Collaboration Structure, Communication Media, and Problems in Scientific Work Teams
John P. Walsh and Nancy G. Maloney
Two groups of problems affect scientific collaborations: coordination and misunderstandings, and cultural differences and information security.
- Does the Internet Promote Collaboration and Productivity? Evidence from the Scientific Community in South Africa
R. Sooryamoorthy and Wesley Shrum
There is little evidence that South African academics benefit from international collaboration, and collaboration is not generally related to publication productivity.
- Audience Counts and Reporting System: Establishing a Cyber-Infrastructure for Museum
Educators
Frank Pappas and Fred Volk
This article describes the challenges faced by researchers working with The Smithsonian Institute to develop e-science methods to assess museum attendance.
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