Category Archives: Communication

Identifying factors that influence adolescents’ online communication and relationship building

This study utilized social network analysis to examine the communication strategies of 54 high school students (2, 916 relationships) within a private online group. Communication strategies were identified through interviews with adolescent Facebook users (N = 12), and coding Facebook data (N = 271 … Continue reading

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High-tech toys could stagnate babies’ communication skills

When babies and toddlers play with a tablet or other noisy device, they often play alone, which can be detrimental to their development, according to an assistant professor and extension early child development specialist. Research has shown that children need … Continue reading

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Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change

Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their ‘liberated technologies’. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects (’emancipatory communication practices’) as a political subject, focusing on the sociological and cultural … Continue reading

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Scaffolding Conversations: Engaging Multiple Media in Organizational Communication

Much of the research on media use in organizations has tended to focus on the use of one medium in isolation from the other media in the organization. Yet the proliferation of communication technologies, especially Internet-based technologies, combined with work … Continue reading

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