The potential of synchronous communication to enhance participation in online discussions: A case study of two e-learning courses

S Hrastinski - Information & Management, 2008 - Elsevier
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been adopted in most e-learning settings.
However, few research studies have considered the effect of different CMC. This study …

Social technologies, informal knowledge practices, and the enterprise

MH Jarrahi, S Sawyer - Journal of Organizational Computing and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This article focuses on the ways in which social technologies facilitate informal knowledge
sharing in the workplace. Social technologies include both common technologies such as …

Relational outcomes of multicommunicating: Integrating incivility and social exchange perspectives

AF Cameron, J Webster - Organization Science, 2011 - pubsonline.informs.org
New communication technologies, increased virtual communication, and the intense
pressure for managers and employees to be continually available and “online” are giving …

The PowerPoint presentation and its corollaries: How genres shape communicative action in organizations

J Yates, W Orlikowski - … : Cultural perspectives on the regulation of …, 2007 - books.google.com
We view the PowerPoint presentation, and genres more broadly, as both enabling and
constraining human action. We trace the historical development of the businesspresentation …

Vital signs for virtual teams: An empirically developed trigger model for technology adaptation interventions

DM Thomas, RP Bostrom - MIS quarterly, 2010 - JSTOR
This study explores how team leaders sense the need for technology adaptation intervention
in distributed, computer-mediated (" virtual") teams. Analysis and coding of critical incident …

Participating in synchronous online education

S Hrastinski - 2007 - portal.research.lu.se
There is an increasing need for education since the workforce of today is expected to be
highly educated and continuously learn. Distance education is a powerful response to meet …

Virtual teams and multiple media: Structuring media use to attain strategic goals

F Bélanger, MB Watson-Manheim - Group Decision and Negotiation, 2006 - Springer
Work environments have grown substantially more complex over the years. Teams are
increasingly distributed, and presented with a variety of different communication …

Comparing virtual teams to traditional teams: An identification of new research opportunities

J Webster, D Sandy Staples - Research in personnel and human …, 2006 - emerald.com
A growing body of literature exists on virtual (ie, geographically dispersed) teams; however,
few summaries of this knowledge are available. The purpose of this paper is to help fill this …

Multicommunicating: Juggling multiple conversations in the workplace

AF Cameron, J Webster - Information Systems Research, 2013 - pubsonline.informs.org
As a result of newer communication technologies and an increase in virtual communication,
employees often find themselves multicommunicating, or participating in multiple …

How managers use multiple media: Discrepant events, power, and timing in redundant communication

PM Leonardi, TB Neeley, EM Gerber - Organization Science, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that
is, they send the same message to the same recipient sequentially through two or more …