Abstract Media and communication studies is a comparatively young academic discipline in Sweden. The subject’s establishment began with the 1960s—a time when expansion of mass media led to bigger demand for analysis, education critical reflection. Along that, political commercial interests more knowledge commissioned research, another considerable factor development institutionalization. field ...

Four recent trends (increased diversity, increased use of teams, increased use of a variety of communication media, and increased focus on creative output) have created a need for understanding how diversity and communication media influence individuals, their interactions within groups, and their influence on creativity. In previous work, the concept of identity fit was developed to explain ho...

In networked collaborative working environment, users are involved with either repeatable or exclusive task. These variety tasks required the collaborative system to support it dynamic and creative solutions especially in sharing the communication media. Most of the related research is objectively focusing on the alignment of user behavior in shared activities. There is not much research conduc...