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Social Media Research
These questions about communication technology aim at uncovering some of the dimensions of social interaction and human communication, and their interface with the technologies that mediate so much of our communication today. These questions are an attempt at conducting communication research into both the sociology and psychology of interpersonal communication and its means of production at the same time.
Materiality and amplification: design, functions, features, and the interface to the human face
- The material form of communication technology
- Mode of communication matters
- Technology takes its features from the face
When communication technology requires a secondary medium
- Affective capacity of recordings
- Is meaning lost in translation?
- The secondary medium
- TA and the "stroke", or technology meets social psychology
Communication technology extends attention
- How technology selects attention
- Technology distorts communication
- What's a technology's interaction bandwidth?
- Interpersonal communication enjoys (a) real time
What is a communication technology's functional effectiveness
- Effectiveness and the risk/success ratio of communicating through technology
- When technology fails to deliver (communication)
- When silence communicates
- Technology, Habermas, and truth claims
Sociology and the negotiations of presence availability: the internet, access, and connection
- Synchronous communication technology: Connection
- Communication is iteration. Say again?
- Framing interactions, or "where are you?"
- Who's on the other end of the line?
- Frequency of interaction counts
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Communication technology creates intermittence
Asynchronous communication technology: Connectivity
- From conversation to transitivity
- Off the air and other second order availability issues
- When is a conversation finished?
- Did you get my email: delivery acknowledgment
Close Encounters with technology
- The matter of identity: who's talking?
- The matter of identity: authority
- The matter of identity: animator
- Producing audience relations with technology
- Interactionism and framing the encounter: synchronous media
- Interactionism and framing the encounter: asynchronous technology
- Asynchronous technology and group dynamics
- What are you saying? Footing and mediated conversation
Through the Wire
Excerpts from Through the Wire, an ongoing book project on communication technology and the changing relations of speech, proximity, communication and relationships. These draft chapters are related to some of the questions posed in the investigation above.
- From the Chapter on Selection
- From the Chapter: Materiality and Amplification: Senses and Interaction
- From the Chapter: New Proximities
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