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- accessability
- speed and ease with which one can send messages to multiple audiences has seduced many people who thought they would never use email
- negatives of telework
- role overload, workaholism, blurring of boundaries between work-family, negative impact on relationships at home, and child care
- information and communication technology
- moving data across space and time so that it can be received, edited, processed, or stored
- contingency theory
- addresses the most appropriate medium for use in a given situation
- telework
- any form of substitution of information technologies for work related travel
- temporal aspects of content
- cell phones and videoconferencing, enable synchronous communication, where as other media such as fax and email are asynchronous
- position in the hierarcy
- the higher ones level in the organization, the greater percentage time is spend interacting with other people, the more that communication is oral and the more the task demands involve equivocal and rapid feedback communication
- form of content
- multiple threads in discussion boards lead to a loss of coherence, but they also demonstrate visually how ideas are fleshed out
- media richness
- vary in terms of the speed of feedback, the degree of formality and structure in the language, the variety of language used and the tone of voice and facial expressions
- social presence
- refers to the degree of socialibility present in the use of the media
- transformation of messages
- nature of messages, form of content, and temporal aspects of content
- telecommunicating
- periodic work out of the principle office one or more days per week either at home, a clients site, or in a telework center
- nature of messages
- messages may be more task-related, focus on content rather that the identity of the sender, and attend less to closing signatures than messages written in more traditional forms