Joining Nicole Ellison in this episode of JCMC: The Discussion are Eugy Han and Dr. Kristine Nowak, two of the authors behind the recently published “People, Places, and Time: A Large-scale, Longitudinal Study of Transformed Avatars and Environmental Context in Group Interaction in the Metaverse”. In addition to discussing their findings, Han and Dr. Nowak share how their transition to remote learning, and subsequent experimentations with VR, informed and inspired this recent study. Han and Dr. Nowak go on to share some advice for scholars interested in integrating VR into their work as well as further discuss potential future applications for VR in academia and research.

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Featuring

Nicole Ellison

Eugy Han

Kristine Nowak

More from our guests:

Nicole Ellison

Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information | School of Information

University of Michigan

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter: @nicole_ellison; @ica_jcmc

Eugy Han

PhD Candidate & SGF Fellow | Department of Communication

Scholar | Virtual Human Interaction Lab

Stanford University

Twitter: @eugyhan

LinkedIn: Eugy Han

Kristine Nowak

Professor | Department of Communication

Director | Human-Computer Interaction Lab

University of Connecticut

Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Professor | Department of Engineering

University of Palermo

Twitter: @profknowak

LinkedIn: Kristine Nowak

Works Referenced In Episode:

Han, E., Miller, M. R., DeVeaux, C., Jun, H., Nowak, K. L., Hancock, J. T., ... & Bailenson, J. N. (2023). People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(2), zmac031.
Han, E., Nowak, K. L., & Bailenson, J. N. (2022). Prerequisites for Learning in Networked Immersive Virtual Reality.

Kraut, R., Scherlis, W., Mukhopadhyay, T., Manning, J., & Kiesler, S. (1996, April). HomeNet: A field trial of residential Internet services. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 284-291).

Mystakidis, S. (2022). Metaverse. Encyclopedia, 2(1), 486-497.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Sharlene Burgos

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

This episode features the trio behind the recently published “A Typology of Social Media Rituals”, Limor Shifman, Blake Hallinan, and Tommaso Trillò, in conversation with Nicole Ellison. Shifman, Hallinan, and Trillò discuss how they developed their typology of social media rituals and what this typology has revealed about digital communications and social media participation across platforms and cultures. They further discuss future applications of their developed typology and their individual next steps in the world of computer-mediated communications.

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Featuring

Nicole Ellison

Limor Shifman

Blake Hallinan

Tommaso Trillò

More from our guests:

Nicole Ellison

Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information | School of Information

University of Michigan

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter: @nicole_ellison; @ica_jcmc

Limor Shifman

Professor | Department of Communication and Journalism

Vice Dean | Faculty of Social Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Twitter: @limor_shifman

Blake Hallinan

Senior Lecturer | Department of Communication and Journalism

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Twitter: @blakeplease

IG: @nightmerrily

Tommaso Trillò

Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Communication and Journalism

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Twitter: @tommytrillo

Works Referenced In Episode:

Hallinan, B., Kim, B., Mizoroki, S., Scharlach, R., Trillò, T., Thelwall, M., ... & Shifman, L. (2023). The value (s) of social media rituals: A cross-cultural analysis of New Year’s resolutions. Information, Communication & Society, 26(4), 764-785.

Hillis, K. (2020). Online a lot of the time: Ritual, fetish, sign. Duke University Press.

Trillò, T., Hallinan, B., & Shifman, L. (2022). A typology of social media rituals. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27(4), zmac011.

Dayan, D., & Katz, E. (1992). Media events: The live broadcasting of history. Harvard University Press.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Sharlene Burgos

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this installment of JCMC: The Discussion Section, host Nicole Ellison, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), and her guest, Dr. Linda Duxbury, delve into the topic of email communication in the workplace. They discuss the difference between importance and urgency and how these concepts contribute to employees’ perception of email communication. Tune in to hear Dr. Duxbury’s advice on how to improve email communication habits.

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Featuring

Nicole Ellison

Linda Duxbury

More from the host & speakers:

Nicole Ellison

Professor | School of Information

University of Michigan

Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter - @nicole_ellison

Linda Duxbury

Chancellor's Professor, Management | Sprott School of Business

Carleton University

Twitter - @Carleton_U

Works referenced in episode:

Lanctot, A., & Duxbury, L. (2022). Measurement of perceived importance and urgency of email: An employees’ perspective. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27(2), zmac001.

In this episode of JCMC: The Discussion Section, host Nicole Ellison, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Karl E Weick Collegiate professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, is joined by Katie Shilton and Jessica Vitak to discuss data ethics in computational research. Jessica and Katie talk about their work with the Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research (PERVADE) project, outlining ethical concerns around big data, the current and future roles of IRBs in data ethics, and how researchers, reviewers, and editors can build best practices into their process.

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Featuring

Nicole Ellison

Katie Shilton

Jessica Vitak

Sponsor:

Oxford University Press

More from the host & speakers:

Nicole Ellison

Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Karl E Weick Collegiate Professor | School of Information

University of Michigan

Twitter - @nicole_ellison

Katie Shilton

Associate Professor | College of Information Studies

University of Maryland, College Park

Principal Investigator | PERVADE Project

Twitter - @KatieShilton

Twitter - @pervade_team

Jessica Vitak

Associate Professor, HCIL Director | College of Information Studies

University of Maryland

Principal Investigator | PERVADE Project

Twitter - @jvitak

Twitter - @pervade_team

Works referenced in episode:

D'ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). Data feminism. MIT Press.

Scholars and Organizations referenced in episode:

PERVADE Project

Association of Internet Researchers reports on Ethics

ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing

Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems Researchers (CSST)

Casey Fiesler

Nick Proferes

Sarah Gilbert

Copy and Audio Editor:

Kate In

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this installment of JCMC: The Discussion Section, host Nicole Ellison, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), and her guests delve into the evolution of CMC, the theorizing of social media, and the constantly changing social media landscape. Joined by three of her Associate Editors Lee Humphreys, Caleb Carr and Katy E. Pearce, they discuss their favorite pieces in past issues of JCMC as well as up-and-coming research areas about which they are excited. Tune in to get more insight into JCMC and studies of computer-mediated communication.

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Featuring

Nicole Ellison

Lee Humphreys

Caleb Carr

Katy E. Pearce

More from the host & speakers:

Nicole Ellison

Professor | School of Information

University of Michigan

Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter - @nicole_ellison

Lee Humphreys

Professor and Chair | Communication Department

Cornell University Director of the Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute

Associate Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter - @leehumphreys

Caleb Carr

Professor | School of Communication

Illinois State University

Associate Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter - @CalebTCarrPhD

Katy E. Pearce

Associate Professor | Department of Communication

University of Washington.Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies and the Center for an Informed Public

Associate Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter - @katypearce

Works referenced in episode:

Humphreys, L., Von Pape, T., & Karnowski, V. (2013). Evolving mobile media: Uses and conceptualizations of the mobile internet. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 18(4), 491-507.

Rafaeli, S., & Sudweeks, F. (1997). Networked interactivity. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 2(4), JCMC243.
Lange, P. G. (2007). Publicly private and privately public: Social networking on YouTube. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 13(1), 361-380.

Madianou, M. (2014). Smartphones as polymedia. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(3), 667-680.
Humphreys, L. (2018). The qualified self: Social media and the accounting of everyday life. MIT press.

Donner, J. (2007). The rules of beeping: Exchanging messages via intentional “missed calls” on mobile phones. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 13(1), 1-22.
Marler, W. (2022). “You can connect with like, the world!”: Social platforms, survival support, and digital inequalities for people experiencing homelessness. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27(1), zmab020.

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Nicole B. Ellison

Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information | School of Information

University of Michigan

Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter - @nicole_ellison

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