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Computer-Mediated Communication
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This approach clarifies the impact that computers may have on the operation of organizations and on the individuals comprising them and its present and potential roles in facilitating and mediating communication between people.Abstract:
The use of computers in organizations is discussed in terms of its present and potential roles in facilitating and mediating communication between people. This approach clarifies the impact that computers may have on the operation of organizations and on the individuals comprising them. Communication, which is essential to collaborative activities, must be properly controlled to protect individual and group privacy, which is equally essential. Our present understanding of the human and organizational aspects of controlling communication and access to information lags behind our technical ability to implement the controls that may be needed.read more
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Web-Based virtual learning environments: a research framekwork and a preliminary assessment of effectiveness in basic IT skills training
TL;DR: The results indicate that, in the context of IT basic skills training in undergraduate education, there are no significant differences in performance between students enrolled in the two environments, however, the VLE leads to higher reported computer self-efficacy, while participants report being less satisfied with the learning process.
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Assessing teaching presence in a computer conferencing context
TL;DR: A tool developed for the purpose of assessing teaching presence in online courses that make use of computer conferencing is presented, and preliminary results from the use of this tool are revealed.
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Content analysis of online discussion in an applied educational psychology course
TL;DR: The authors analyzed discussion in an online conferencethat supplemented class discussion using an instructional method called the starter-wrappertechnique within a traditional graduate leveleducational psychology course and found that students were using high level cognitive skills such as inferencing and judgment as well as metacognitive strategies related to reflectingon experience and self-awareness.
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Testing Media Richness Theory in the New Media: the Effects of Cues, Feedback, and Task Equivocality
Alan R. Dennis,Susan T. Kinney +1 more
TL;DR: The results found no support for the central proposition of media richness theory; matching media richness to task equivocality did not improve performance.
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Methodological Issues in the Content Analysis of Computer Conference Transcripts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the potential and the methodological challenges of analyzing computer conference transcripts using quantitative content analysis and discuss criteria for content analysis, research designs, types of content, units of analysis, ethical issues and software to aid analysis.
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Privacy and authentication: An introduction to cryptography
TL;DR: The basic information theoretic and computational properties of classical and modern cryptographic systems are presented, followed by cryptanalytic examination of several important systems and an examination of the application of cryptography to the security of timesharing systems and computer networks.
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MACSYMA - the fifth year
TL;DR: A brief description of the facilities of MACSYMA is given by dividing the system into seven packages: language and interactive facilities, general representation, rational function representation and related algorithms, the integration subsystem, the power series system, the MACLISP system, and miscellaneous facilities.
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On the social role of computer communications
TL;DR: The paper discusses some of the pressures that lead to more widespread use of computers in the operation of society and illustrates how specific characteristics of computer-communication systems may influence social trends and, in particular, individual freedom.