Successful and unsuccessful multicommunication episodes: Engaging in dialogue or juggling messages?

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 277-285

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

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication technology; Critical incident; Instant message; Media use; Multicommunicating; Self presentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; CRITICAL INCIDENTS; INSTANT MESSAGES; MEDIA USE; MULTICOMMUNICATING; SELF PRESENTATIONS;

JOB ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954759126     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-009-9175-y     Document Type: Article

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