Investigators have long recognized that adolescents' peer experiences provide a crucial
context for the acquisition of developmental competencies, as well as potential risks for a …

Although the use of mobile communication services, commonly known as mobile instant
messaging (MIM) has gained considerable attention in recent years, we lack a …

Smartphones could be the fastest spreading technology in human history. These mobile
devices change the way we communicate and enable mobile and ubiquitous learning at a …

Users have adopted a wide range of digital technologies into their communication
repertoire. It remains unclear why they adopt multiple forms of communication instead of …

Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of
cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the …

Why and how people choose to use a particular computer-mediated communication (CMC)
technology is a major concern. This study seeks to address the issues by applying the uses …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine how digital communication tools are used
for internal communication (IC) in multinational corporations (MNCs). Specifically, the study …

According to relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1995), information (a set of assumptions
in its terminology) is relevant if it satisfies two conditions; firstly, it should generate a …

In a social interaction study, pairs of unacquainted college students engaged in a two-part
get-acquainted interaction. In a first interaction, modality was manipulated and was either …

Academic libraries are experiencing significant changes and making efforts to deliver their
service in the digital environment. Libraries are transforming from being places for reading to …