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Media Synchronicity Theory 2

Dennis, A. R., et al. "Beyond Media Richness: An Empirical Test of Media Synchronicity Theory." Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol I (1998): 48-57. I first introduced and discussed media synchronicity theory in a September 2009 post, . While ...

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Information Richness Theory

Daft, R. L., and R. H. Lengel. (1984). "Information Richness - a New Approach to Managerial Behavior and Organizational Design." Research in Organizational Behavior 6 : 191-233. Information Richness is the foundation of media richness theory, which I addressed in a September 2009 post and again in...

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Social Information Processing Theory

SIPT explicitly assumes that individuals are motivated to form impressions and develop relationships of some kind, no matter what medium they are using (394). Walther, Joseph B., Leslie A. Baxter, and Dawn O. Braithewaite. "Social Information Processing Theory." Engaging Theories in Interpersonal C...

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Electric Rhetoric – Technologies of Electric Rhetoric

The Sophistic performance of electronic rhetoric has arrived. …It is on computers. … and it is on television. (137) Welch, Kathleen E. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. The MIT Press, 1999. In this fifth Chapter of Electric Rhetoric, Technologies of Electric R...

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