Communication richness in electronic mail: Critical social theory and the contextuality of meaning

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-166

  Ngwenyama, Ojelanki K ^a   Lee, Allen S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Critical social theory; Media richness; Organizational communication; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY (CST); MEDIA RICHNESS; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 0000395003     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249417     Document Type: Article

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