Scholars tackle the ways mobile phone users employ intentionally "missed calls," how instant messaging is affecting workers ability to get things done, Creative Commons licensing, and more in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC). Edited by SLIS faculty member Susan Herring, this issue of JCMC also includes a collection of research articles covering social network sites. SLIS and Informatics faculty member John Paolillo served as associate editor.
JCMC, which has been published quarterly since June 1995, is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on "social science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies" [JCMC website]. In 2004, the International Communication Associated adopted it as one of its official journals.
Contents of JCMC: Volume 13, Issue 1, October 2007
The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via Intentional "Missed Calls" on Mobile Phones by Jonathan Donner
IM=Interruption Management? Instant Messaging and Disruption in the Workplace by R. Kelly Garrett and James N. Danziger
Email Flaming Behaviors and Organizational Conflict by Anna K. Turnage
Take Me Back: Validating the Wayback Machine by Jamie Murphy, Noor Hazarina Hashim, and Peter O'Connor
The Impact of Language Variety and Expertise on Perceptions of Online Political Discussions by Kenny W. P. Tan, Debbie Swee, Corinne Lim, Benjamin H. Detenber, and Lubna Alsagof
Every Blog Has Its Day: Politically Interested Internet Users' Perceptions of Blog Credibility by Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye, Shannon L. Bichard, and W. Joann Wong
Writing for Friends and Family: The Interpersonal Nature of Blogs by Michael A. Stefanone and Chyng-Yang Jang
Mein Nick bin ich! Nicknames in a German Forum on Eating Disorders by Wyke Stommel
University Instructors' Acceptance of Electronic Courseware: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model by Namkee Park, Kwan Min Lee, and Pauline Hope Cheong
The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses by Minjeong Kim
Special Section: Social Network Sites, guest edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship by danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison
Signals in Social Supernets by Judith Donath
Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances by Hugo Liu
Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites by Eszter Hargittai
Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network by Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun
Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com by Dara N. Byrne
Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball by Lee Humphreys
Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube by Patricia Lange
Posted November 16, 2007