The Conduct and Consequence of Research on
Digital Communication
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Title
The Conduct and Consequence of Research on
Digital Communication
Digital Communication
Subject
Communication Technologies, Information Technologies, Digital Communication, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Digital Mediation, Affordances, Social Media
Description
Research on digital communication is best served by concentrating not on current technological tools, but rather on the novel processes of social and communicative change to which such technologies are often closely linked. Thus, scholarship should consider contemporary technologies mainly as manifestations of underlying phenomena rather than as particular objects of study and should cultivate a focus on the capabilities that span technologies. Theories in this domain, in turn, must concentrate on what is exceptional about technologies in terms of the psychological, social, and behavioral mechanisms that help to comprehend them in the long term. Seen this way, the key to understanding technological mediation is remarkably consistent even in the face of radical technological change.
Creator
Andrew J. Flanagin
Source
https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/25/1/23/5709642
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
7 August 2019
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
Coverage
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 25 (2020)
Files
Collection
Citation
Andrew J. Flanagin, “The Conduct and Consequence of Research on
Digital Communication,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed October 31, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8628.
Digital Communication,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed October 31, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8628.