Work, Friendship, and Media Use for Information Exchange in a Networked Organization.

Haythornthwaite, Caroline; Wellman, Barry

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Publication Date: 1998

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Work, Friendship, and Media Use for Information Exchange in a Networked Organization.

Haythornthwaite, Caroline; Wellman, Barry

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v49 n12 p1101-14 Oct 1998

Uses a social network approach to examine how work and friendship ties in a university research group were associated with the kinds of media used for different kinds of information exchange. The use of electronic mail, unscheduled face-to-face encounters, and scheduled face-to-face meetings predominated. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Friendship, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Interpersonal Relationship, Mass Media Use, Regression (Statistics), Social Networks, Tables (Data)

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Language: English

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