Nicole C. Krämer
1) Face-to-face communication over the Internet: emotions in a web of culture, language and technology
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Social platforms such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter have rekindled the initial excitement of cyberspace. Text based computer-mediated communication has been enriched with face-to-face communication such as Skype, as users move from desk tops to laptops with integrated cameras and related hardware. Age, gender and culture barriers seem to have crumbled and disappeared as the user base widens dramatically. Other than simple statistics relating to...