Virtual work is the new normal, with employees working from dispersed locations and
interacting using computer-mediated communication. Despite the growth in virtual work …

In recent years, we have witnessed the rapid proliferation and widespread adoption of a new
class of information technologies, commonly known as social media. Researchers often rely …

While there is a growing number of studies investigating the determinants of social media
addiction, there is a lack of research on examining the importance of such predictors and …

Online dating sites frequently claim that they have fundamentally altered the dating
landscape for the better. This article employs psychological science to examine (a) whether …

Welcome to this second edition of Interviews in Qualitative Research. We have been very
gratified by the many positive responses to the first edition. Updating it has been …

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings
of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our …

Social media and Internet data offer rich opportunities and vexing challenges for
sociocultural research. Explaining and extending prior approaches, Netnography …

• This chapter presents basic concepts for the book and the meaning of digital media in
social and communication science.• It starts with a description of the daily life of people in …

The Human Race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's
games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few …

While computer-mediated communication use and research are proliferating rapidly,
findings offer contrasting images regarding the interpersonal character of this technology …