Papers Available from this site:
- Medium
as an Ecology of Genre. (Awarded best paper at 2006 Meeting of Media
Ecology Association).
- Medium
as Communication Process Primitive. (Competitively selected for presentation
at the Fall, 2005 meeting of the National Communication Association).
- Medium
as Interface. (Competitively selected for presentation at the Fall,
2005 meeting of the National Communication Association).
- An
Ecological Model of the Communication Process (Competitively selected
for presentation at the Spring, 205 meeting of the International Communication
Association)
- Models
of the Communication Process (Self-Published on the Web as a class
reading. As of Spring, 2005, the most widely accessed paper on my web site,
with upwards of 1300 hits per month)
- Emergent
Complexity and the Role Attributes of media. (Presented at the Spring,
2005 meeting of the International Communication Association).
- Emergent
Role Structure in Media (An earlier draft. Submitted, with mild
variations, to NCA for the Fall, 2003 meeting, ICA for the Spring, 2004
Meeting, and NCA for the Fall, 2004 Meeting)
- Time
in Interpersonal Media (Accepted to National Communication Association
for the November, 2003 meeting)
- Relationship Equals
Sum Media Use (Competitively selected to the International Communication
Association Convention; May, 2003)
- Practical
Telepresence and the Online Office (Selected to the International
Communication Association Convention; May, 2003)
- The
Invention and Evolution of Media (Competitively selected to National
Communication Assocation; November, 2002).
- Roles
In Media. (Competitively selected to National Communication Assocation
Summer Conference; May, 2002).
- Computer Media and the Middle
Ground (Competitively selected to National Communication Association
Summer Conference; May, 2002).
- Spheres of
Invention. (Competitively scheduled to National Communication Association
Summer Conference; May, 2002).
- Measuring Complex Ethical
Decision Making. (Competitively selected to Northeast Regional Conference
on Excellence on Teaching and Learning (Chalk and Talk), April, 2002).
- Fractally
Complex Decision Spaces and the Efficacy of Ethics Instruction. (Presented
at the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum; February 1, 2002)
- Seven
Bridges Over the Global Digital Divide. (Competively selected to ICA
Digital Divide Symposium, Austin, TX, November, 2001; under consideration
for book).
- The
Cliff and the Continuum: Defining the Digital Divide. (A reaction
to papers and discussion at the ICA Digital Divide Symposium, Austin, TX,
November, 2001; under consideration for book).
- with Phillip A. Thompsen. Effects
of Pictographs and Quoting on Flaming in Computer Media (Published
in Computers in Human Behavior, 1996)
- Bridging
Media: Computers and Human Communication (Published in Visions of
the Future, edited by Cliff Pickover, 1992)
- Rights, Responsibilities, Metaphors,
and Electronic Media (Invited paper presented to the National Science
Council Workshop on "The Rights and Responsibilities of Participants
in Networked Communities", November, 1992)
- Negotiation of Rules on IBM's IBMPC
Computer Conferencing Facility. (Competitively selected to to International
Communication Association, 1991.)
- with Dave Chess. Impacts of Computer
Conferencing as experienced on IBM's IBMPC Computer Conferencing Facility.
(Competitively selected to International Communication Association, 1991.)
- Medium as Process: The structure,
use, and practice of computer conferencing on IBM's IBMPC computer conferencing
facility: An Overview. (Nominated to the NCA Dissertation of the Year
Award, 1991).
- Within and About Communication: A
Time Series Study of Communication Monographs. (Competitively seleted
to 1980 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association,
Acapulco, MX.
- Steps Toward an Information
Based Theory of Attitude Change. (Competitively selected to 1979 Annual
Conference of the International Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.
- Credibility and
the Statistical Interaction Variable: Speaking Up for Multiplication as a
Source of Understanding. (Competitively selected to 1979 Annual Conference
of the Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, TX).
- Refusal
to Counter-Attitudinally Encode: A Study. (Competitively selected
to 1978 Annual Conference of the Speech Communication Association, Minneapolis,
MN; an NCA debut paper).
- A Simplified
Flesch Reading Ease Formula. (As originally submitted
and accepted by Journalism Quarterly for publication as "Research in
Brief", 1977. The published 1978 article was considerably modified from
this submission. Updated with additional comments, 2003; the most widely read
paper on my web site, with upwards of 500 hits a month, from September, 2003
to February, 2004; still the second most widely accessed paper on my site).
(a more complete listing of papers, including many not available on the web,
can be viewed in my extended
curriculum vitae).