In this paper, we highlight some of the challenges and opportunities that social media
presents to researchers, and offer relevant theoretical avenues to be explored. To do this …

The multimodal, 3D-graphlcal communication platforms known as virtual worlds have their
historical roots In multi-user domains/dungeons (MUDs) and virtual reality (VR). Given the …

Information Systems (IS) publications that use interviews for data generation tend to provide
very little insight into the research process and very few rely on a carefully chosen and well …

Now that high-end consumer phones can support immersive virtual reality, we ask whether
social virtual reality is a promising medium for supporting distributed groups of users. We …

ABSTRACT Avatar-mediated communication (AMC), commonly used in online environments
such as games and the emerging metaverse, is different from traditional computer-mediated …

Organizations seem to be split on their policies governing social networking sites (SNSs) in
the workplace. Recent surveys indicate that while many organizations severely restrict or …

Through an inductive, qualitative study, I developed a process model of how people deal
with professional identities they have forgone by choice or constraint. I show that, when …

Despite how humans and non-human objects relate in very social ways, the relations
between players and their online game avatars are most often examined through …

Little is known about how individuals come to relate to settings in virtual worlds (VWs), which
are defined as digital environments in which individuals, groups, and even organizations …

The use of virtual worlds as an emerging technology is already having a significant impact
on business to consumer commerce and on corporate Internet retailing strategies. This …