In the article “Interactive Multimedia-Based E-Learning,” Zhang presents the methodology and results of two experiments designed to gauge the strength and effectiveness of multimedia-based e-learning. Based on the evidence from the two studies, Zhang concludes[…]

In the article “Navigating a social world with robot partners: A quantitative cartography of the Uncanny Valley” authors Mathur and Reichling use empirical data to argue that “the Uncanny Valley is a real influence on[…]

In her article “How tech and social media are making us feel lonelier than ever,” Leslie Katz argues that we are living in a “loneliness paradox” in which our increasing connectedness through social media may[…]

In her article “Digital Fame and Fortune in the age of Social Media,” Ruiz-Gomez argues that social media has created a new class of celebrities which function similarly to existing “movie-star” celebrity models but with[…]

In the article “The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Student’s Use of Online Social Network Sites,” Ellison et al. argues that “online social network sites may play a role different from that[…]

In Spiel’s “Agency of Autistic Children in Technology Research,” Spiel argues that the majority of existing literature on technology for autistic children focuses on correcting deviant behaviors. Autistic children are then “secondary users” of these[…]

In their article “An Immersive System with Multi-modal Human-computer Interaction,” Zhao et al. presents an “immersive system prototype that integrates face, gesture and speech recognition techniques” called the Cognitive Immersive Room (CIR). The prototype contains[…]

In the article, “Networked Interactivity,” Sheizaf Rafaeli and Fay Sudweeks explored the ways in which people interact in computer-mediated groups, and they determined that interactive messages are likely to be personable and agreeable and that[…]

In his article “Interactivity: a concept explication,” Kiousis argues that the definition of “interactivity” varies widely across the existing literature and that a more consistent definition is needed. Kiousis gives a convincing motivation for the[…]

In “The Social Media Ecology: User Perceptions, Strategies and Challenges,” the authors Xuan Zhao, Cliff Lampe, and Nicole B. Ellison use the results from their experiments to prove that social media users purposefully and thoughtfully[…]

In his work Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan’s claims that “the media is the message.” He argues that, while it is intuitive to focus on content while studying communications, the medium in which the content is[…]