Table of Contents
Preliminaries
Title Page
Abstract
Preface
Credits
Introduction
(1) Computer Conferencing and Communication Theory
(2) Methodology
(3) Medium as Process: An Overview
(4) Prior Studies of Computer Conferencing
A Theory of Medium as Process
(5) Mediators and Media
(6) Characteristics of Media
(7) Effects of Media
(8) A Typology of Media
(9) User Perceptions of the Characteristics of Media
(10) Completing the Circle: Media Practices
The "IBMPC" Computer Conferencing Facility as a Medium in Process
(11) The Development of IBMPC
(12) A Simple Query
(13) What Kind of Event was this Simple Query
(14) Genres of Computer Conferencing
(15) Formal and Informal Rules
(16) The Administration of IBMPC
(17) Problems of Computer Conferencing as Experienced on IBMPC
(18) Benefits of Computer Conferencing as Experienced on IBMPC
(19) Four Hours in Community
(20) Expressiveness in a Digital Medium
(21) The New Electronic Community
(22) Changing Patterns of Media Use
Reflections on Theory and Observation
(23) Medium as Process on IBM's IBMPC Computer Conferencing Facility
(24) Into the Computer-Mediated Future: Prospects for Human Communication
Reference Bibliography
Appendices
(A) The 1986 IBMPC User Survey
(B) The 1988 IBMPC User Survey
(C) Characteristics of the IBMPC User
(D) Twelve Characteristics of Human Communication Media
(E) Overview of Fifty-Two Media
Additional Material
About this rendition
Annotated Chapter Outline
Tables and Figures
Footnotes