Re: Studies on email use and collaboration
On 19 Jan 2005 at 9:38, air-l-aoir.org-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
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Hi All,
I was wondering if people can point me to articles and studies on email use and collaboration - are there any studies that show how collaboration occurs via email? Also any studies that look at how many recipients per message?
TIA
K -- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu
Karim, I have done a study that analyzes the effects of the use of emailing lists by researchers, especially whether and how it enables them to make new contacts (weak contacts, exchange of papers, collaboration contacts): Matzat U. (2004). "Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Transfer of Information or Creation of Social Contacts?" in: Social Networks, 26, 3: 221-255. You can find a pre-print on my website. Regards, Uwe Matzat ======================================= Uwe Matzat Sociology Section Department of Technology Management Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands --------------- phone: +31 40 247-8392 email: u.matzat@tm.tue.nl http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat/ =======================================
Most of my work is in some way connected with collaborative processes and media use -- with email as one of the major media use. See the book chapter below for the overview + examples, and the JASIS and TIS papers for study details. Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Building social networks via computer networks: Creating and sustaining distributed learning communities. In K.A. Renninger & W. Shumar, Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace (pp.159-190). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Strong, weak and latent ties and the impact of new media. The Information Society, 18(5), 385 - 401. Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Exploring multiplexity: Social network structures in a computer-supported distance learning class. The Information Society, 17(3), 211-226. Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (1998). Work, friendship and media use for information exchange in a networked organization. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(12), 1101-1114. /Caroline PS. I'd be interested in seeing the full list of references when you have received them. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu) www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn Associate Professor phone: (217) 244-7453 Graduate School of Library and Information Science fax: (217) 244-3302 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Uwe Matzat wrote:
On 19 Jan 2005 at 9:38, air-l-aoir.org-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
From: "Karim R. Lakhani" <lakhani@MIT.EDU>
Hi All,
I was wondering if people can point me to articles and studies on email use and collaboration - are there any studies that show how collaboration occurs via email? Also any studies that look at how many recipients per message?
K -- Karim R. Lakhani
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Caroline Haythornthwaite -
Uwe Matzat