Category Archives: Communication Media
Legends on the Net: An Examination of Computer-Mediated Communication as a Locus of Oral Culture
Fernback, Jan. “Legends on the Net: An Examination of Computer-Mediated Communication as a Locus of Oral Culture.” New Media & Society 5 1 (2003): 29-45. “The potential of the internet as an(sic) medium of orality is worth of scholarly reflection.” (pg. 30.). This statement is unquestionably accurate. However, real-time textual chat modes–a medium the author…
Reproduced and Emergent Genres of Communication on the World Wide Web
Crowston, Kevin, and Marie Williams. “Reproduced and Emergent Genres of Communication on the World Wide Web.” Information Society 16 3 (2000): 201-15. Given its attention to the definition and consideration of the communication genre, I am drawing on this article to help support my suggestion of the Online Video Conversation (OVC) as a new communication…
Factors of Distraction in a One-Way-Video, Two-Way-Audio Distance Learning Setting
Briggs, Lowell A., and G. Dale Wagner. “Factors of Distraction in a One-Way-Video, Two-Way-Audio Distance Learning Setting.” PAACE Journal of Lifelong Learning 6 (1997): 67-75. Published in 1997, this one is pretty outdated, particularly considering that Briggs and Wagner are citing works that were relatively contemporary at the time, but precede their work by 10…
Characterizing Video Responses in Social Networks
Benevenuto, Fabricio, et al. “Characterizing Video Responses in Social Networks.” – 0804.4865. Benevenuto, et al., characterized over 3.4 million video and 400,000 video responses collected from YouTube over a 7-day period. Among other reasons they found their characterization interesting, they cite a sociological reason, “relating to social networking issues that influence the behavior of users…
Crossing Textual and Visual Content in Different Application Scenarios
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 information processing in the multimodal scenario. In doing so, the…