Meta Views and Reviews
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Meta-theories
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Rice (1992) recursively summarizes material from CMC reviews.
Main point: "Even a general awareness of the diversity of these
contexts, much less the numerous studies associated with the
various contexts, should obviate the easy and ill-formed
introduction found in many CMC studies, that `there is little
theoretical or empirical research in this area.' "
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Rice (1989a) asserts that we need to integrate CMC research
around four themes: stakeholders, goals, domains, and tools. Main
point: [p. 436] Integrate CMC research across
disciplines/tech/research processes via stakeholders, goals,
analytical domain, and tools.
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Conceptualizations of Computing
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Mowshowitz (1981) describes five positions underlying
conceptualizations of computing: technicism, progressive
individualism, elitism, pluralism, radical criticism.
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Hirschheim (1985) describes underlying epistemological and
ontological stances in office automation research.
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Turkle (1982) talks about how we project our ideas onto
computers.
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Theories, Models, Typologies and Propositions
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Burge (1992) presents a detailed bibliography for current
literature in distance education and CMC.
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Rice (1992) recursively summarizes material from CMC reviews.
Main point: "Even a general awareness of the diversity of these
contexts, much less the numerous studies associated with the
various contexts, should obviate the easy and ill-formed
introduction found in many CMC studies, that `there is little
theoretical or empirical research in this area.' "
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Hacker and Monge (1988) describes theory of
communication/information models and designs of CMC systems.
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Johnston (1989) comments on Rice's article on issues and concepts
in research on CMC.
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McCreary (1990) describes three behavior models for CMC.
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Rice and Boan (1985) describes journals about CMC.
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Culnan and Markus (1987) describes media use factors. Main point:
CMC is low in social presence (no noverbal); therefore, it is
task-oriented and impersonal.
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Bowers (1992) claims artifacts have politics by analyzing
formalisms of design or implementation. Main point: "If we are to
take computer technology seriously, we will have to abandon
innocent humanism in favor of a cyber politics."
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Cathcart and Gumpert (1983) talk about mediated interpersonal
communication.
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Feenberg (1986) presents an operating manual for computer
conferencing.
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Ghani (1988) describes flow theory in CMC.
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Kuehn (1990) asserts that play theory explains CMC as
"communication play" when communicators can alter interaction and
achieve goals.