Ah-Pine, J., et al. "Crossing Textual and Visual Content in Different Application Scenarios." Multimedia Tools and Applications 42 1 (2009): 31-56. This article is quite outside the scope of my research and is bordering on irrelevant to it. The article discusses two approaches to text-image infor...
Continue reading ...Another theoretical framework that I will apply to my study is the social construction of technology as a model to consider the social context of new technology. According to Pinch & Bijker (1987), a key assumption of this theory is that innovation is a complex process of co-construction in which te...
Continue reading ...In Rhetoric and Reality (1987), James A. Berlin created a three-part taxonomy of rhetoric theories, based on epistemology. Objective rhetoric asserts that reality is empirically verifiable and in the material world. Subjective rhetoric states that reality is not material, but rather exists within th...
Continue reading ...Kock, Ned. "The Ape That Used Email: Understanding E-Communication Behavior through Evolution Theory." Communications of AIS 5 3 (2001): 29. In my last posts, I’ve discussed media richness theory and media synchronicity theory, the former being foundational for the latter. Another theory on comm...
Continue reading ...My last post discussed media richness theory. While it is not without worth for my research purposes, the theory is somewhat limited in ways that have been discussed by various authors, including Dennis and Valacich in their 1998 article, "Beyond Media Richness: An Empirical Test of Media Synchronic...
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