The business communicator as presence allocator: Multicommunicating, equivocality, and status at work

Journal of Business Communication

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-58

  Turner, Jeanine Warisse ^a   Reinsch Jr , N Lamar ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chat; Equivocality; Instant message; Multicommunicating; Multitasking; Polychronicity; Presence; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845544360     PISSN: 00219436     EISSN: 15524582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021943606295779     Document Type: Article

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