Computer-Mediated Communication Research

2007 ◽  
pp. 207-222
Author(s):  
J.D. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Business Education ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Education Psychology

This chapter asks “what is meant by computer-mediated communication research?” Numerous databases were examined concerning business, education, psychology, sociology, and social sciences from 1966 through 2005. A survey of the literature produced close to two thousand scholarly journal articles and bibliometric techniques were used to establish core areas. Specifically, journals, authors and concepts were identified. Then, more prevalent features within the dataset were targeted and a fine grained analysis was conducted on research affiliated terms and concepts clustering around those terms. What was found was an area of scholarly communication, heavily popularized in education related journals. Likewise topics under investigation tended to be education and internet affiliated. The distribution of first authors was overwhelming populated by one time authorship. The most prominent research methodology emerging was case studies. Other specific research methodologies tended to be textually related such as content and discourse analysis. This study was significant for two reasons. First, it documented CMC’s literature historical emergence through a longitudinal analysis. Second, it identified descriptive boundaries concerning authors, journals, and concepts that were prevalent in the literature.

Computer-Mediated Communication Research

2009 ◽  
pp. 299-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Business Education ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Education Psychology

This chapter asks “What is meant by computermediated communication research?” Numerous databases were examined concerning business, education, psychology, sociology, and social sciences from 1966 through 2005. A survey of the literature produced close to two thousand scholarly journal articles, and bibliometric techniques were used to establish core areas. Specifically, journals, authors, and concepts were identified. Then, more prevalent features within the dataset were targeted, and a fine-grained analysis was conducted on research-affiliated terms and concepts clustering around those terms. What was found was an area of scholarly communication, heavily popularized in education-related journals. Likewise, topics under investigation tended to be education and Internet affiliated. The distribution of first authors was overwhelming populated by one time authorship. The most prominent research methodology emerging was case studies. Other specific research methodologies tended to be textually related, such as content and discourse analysis. This study was significant for two reasons. First, it documented CMC’s literature historical emergence through a longitudinal analysis. Second, it identified descriptive boundaries concerning authors, journals, and concepts that were prevalent in the literature.

Understanding context in computer-mediated communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Yameng Liang
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
Computer Mediated Communications ◽  
Made In

Abstract With unprecedented transformations taking place in the landscape of what to say and how we mean, interactions in the digital age take on various new forms of doing and being. To make sense of “what it is that is going on” requires an understanding of the context wherein the computer-mediated communications take place. Focusing on a burgeoning online video commenting discourse in mainland China called Danmaku (a media feature that projects viewer comments in the form of “bullet chains” overlaid on the video), the present study applies the schematic construct of context of situation and its paradigmatic representations developed in Systemic Functional Linguistics to a functionally-driven discussion of Danmaku context. Drawing on a corpus of comments from 18 well-received videos on Bilibili.com (a major Danmaku site in mainland China), the study provides a fine-grained analysis that highlights emergent technological and semiotic variables in the Danmaku Mode, such as anonymity, invisibility, dynamicity, and pseudo-synchronicity. It then discusses how these variables mediate the properties of Field and Tenor and further impinge upon the experiential and interpersonal meanings made in Danmaku communication. The analysis has also highlighted the carnivalesque nature of Danmaku which makes it an increasingly popular social media platform in mainland China.

Divergent News Media in Computer Mediated News Communication

2011 ◽  
pp. 492-507
Author(s):  
Michaël Opgenhaffen
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
News Media ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Homogeneous Medium ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Online News ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Total Process

The focus of computer mediated communication research has been lying on the dialogical aspect of Internet communication while the presentation and consumption of online news have been understudied. In this chapter, we make a strong plead to not studying the Internet as one, homogeneous medium, but instead as a meta-medium that carries various divergent news media with specific formal and structural features. These features are important as they influence the information-processing that encompasses the computer mediated news consumption and are, as we suggest, essential when doing communication research. Both the results of a content analysis of the online coverage of the 2006 elections in Flanders, Belgium, and the literature overview of the black-box of information-processing of online news make strong appeal to computer mediated communication scholars to invest in studies towards the form and structure of online news media in order to better understand the total process of computer mediated news communication.

Surveying Online Scholarship

2007 ◽  
pp. 195-206
Author(s):  
J.D. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Online Access

Part of the importance of descriptive studies such as surveys is the identification of directions and issues that can be pursued in future research. Surveying online scholarship helps scholars to identify component features of their fields reflecting where research scrutiny and deficiencies reside. Online access is providing users with the ability to survey exhaustive datasets available previously to a relatively few information scientists. Because of the relative newness of this level of access, scholars outside information and library science are just beginning to wrestle with issues that have a mature but somewhat obscured literature available. This chapter describes technologies, components, and possible analytical techniques related to some of these struggles. Specifically it addresses their use in examining trends, producers, artifacts, and concepts of scholarly communication. Additionally, it provides a targeted application of these components to the literature concerning computer mediated communication.

scholarly journals NOT ALL EMOTICONS ARE CREATED EQUAL

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Yus
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Computer Mediated

Text deformation and emoticon use have become pervasive in today's computer-mediated communication. In this article, emoticons are analysed from a pragmatic, relevance-theoretic perspective, which entails determining the extent to which emoticons contribute to the eventual relevance of the information communicated by the text typed on the keyboard. Eight pragmatic functions are proposed, which correspond to the different ways in which emoticons satisfy the user's search for relevance. The analysis will also address how emoticons contribute to a more fine-grained identification of the user's attitudes, feelings and emotions, which are often difficult to pin down in text-based communication.

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