Email has been a vital communication medium for many years now. It provides speedy and efficient communication of information that can be easily and quickly created, edited, stored, discarded, organized, appended, and forwarded. Its “technical neutrality” has minimized possible communication distortions caused by differences in occupational, ethnic or gender features and expanded connections be...

Reliable group communication has proven to be an important technology for building fault-tolerant applications. Yet, many frameworks for distributed application development (e.g., Dcom, Jini and Enterprise JavaBeans) do not support it. The only notable exception to this situation is Corba that has been recently extended to include a replication service. We claim that lack of group communication...

This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. He is interested in ethnography, computer-supported cooperative work, computer-mediated communication, and the sociology of online communities. Leon Watts is an applied psychologist concerned with human communication and mediating technologies; he is a lecturer...

Email has evolved to be a convenient and important communication media. It greatly facilitates the communication among people from all over the world. The existence of all kinds of free email services makes email communication even more attractive. The convenience and popularity of emails has also made them ideal vehicles to spread computer worms and viruses. Email viruses and worms have appear...

Digital communication data has created opportunities to advance the knowledge of human dynamics in many areas, including national security, behavioral health, and consumerism. While digital data uniquely captures the totality of a person's communication, past research consistently shows that a subset of contacts makes up a person's "social network" of unique resource providers. To address this ...

Globalization has seen the emergence of virtual teams solving complex organisational problems using computer-mediated technologies. By extending Media Richness Theory, it was the aim of this research to demonstrate that virtual teams can utilise a lean medium, such as email, for effectively solving an equivocal problem, given that participants develop a shared-social construction. A quantitativ...

Email has evolved to be a convenient and important communication media. It greatly facilitates the communication among people from all over the world. The existence of all kinds of free email services makes email communication even more attractive. The convenience and popularity of emails has also made them ideal vehicles to spread computer worms and viruses. Email viruses and worms have appear...

Email occupies a central role in the modern workplace. This has led to a vast increase in the number of email messages that users are expected to handle daily. Furthermore, email is no longer simply a tool for asynchronous online communication—email is now used for task management, personal archiving, as well both synchronous and asynchronous online communication (Whittaker and Sidner 1996). Th...

The large-scale adoption of computer mediated communication technologies has resulted in what has been described as “mass interaction”, shared discourse between hundreds, thousands or more individuals. The emergence of mass interaction presents new opportunities to learn about and understand human communication, and information technologies. A number of theoretical papers suggest that the forms...