Impact of sychronicity and civility in computer mediated communication on perceptions of online political discussions.

Computer mediated communication (CMC) provides an alternative platform for political discussions and can in turn facilitate the healthy functioning of a democratic society. Using a mixed-model factorial design, a laboratory experiment (n = 153) was conducted to investigate the effects of two feature...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ng, Elaine Wang Jee.
Other Authors: Detenber, Benjamin Hill
Format: Thesis
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1649