Media, Tasks, and Communication Processes: A Theory of Media Synchronicity

By Alan R. Dennis, Robert M. Fuller, J. Valacich. MIS Q., 2008

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Modeling Citizen Satisfaction with Mandatory Adoption of an E-Government Technology (2010, background): “For example, if the object of research is communication media use, then theories, such as social presence (Short et al., 1976), channel expansion (Carlson and Zmud, 1999), or media synchronicity (Dennis et al., 2008), would be appropriate sources of candidate external variables.”
Marketing in Computer-Mediated Environments: Research Synthesis and New Directions (2014, positive): “For example, marketing scholars can use recent theoretical advances related to media synchronicity (Dennis, Fuller, and Valacich 2008) and extended versions of media richness theory (Daft and Lengel 1986) to study the capabilities of these devices and the degree of “fit” with consumers’ information…”
Absence Makes the Communication Grow Fonder: Geographic Separation, Interpersonal Media, and Intimacy in Dating Relationships (2013, background): “Synchronicity is the degree to which messages are exchanged instantaneously in real time (Dennis et al., 2008).”
Offshore information systems project success: the role of social embeddedness and cultural characteristics (2009, background): “Prior research points to the importance of communication media choice for effective team collaboration (Dennis et al. 2008; Maruping and Agarwal 2004).”
What Online Reviewer Behaviors Really Matter? Effects of Verbal and Nonverbal Behaviors on Detection of Fake Online Reviews (2016, background): “On the other hand, some unique capabilities of online communication environments, such as reprocessability and rehearsability [11], enable alternative nonverbal behaviors.”
What does it take to be a virtual team player? The knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics required in virtual teams (2016, methodology): “We operationalized the extent of asynchronous communication as the mean frequency score of highly asynchronous media (e-mail and online data platform; see media synchronicity theory, Dennis et al., 2008).”
Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association (2013, neutral): “Dennis, Fuller, and Valacich (2008) describe a similar affor-dance, rehearsability, that they assert enables a sender to compose a message with the exact meaning that he or she intends.”
The centrality of communication norm alignment, role clarity, and trust in global project teams (2016, background): “Drawing from media synchronicity theory (Dennis et al., 2008), the predominance of email indicates that GPTmembers over-utilize the capabilities of this media, which helps to explain a number of the interviewees' comments regarding the time spent on miscommunications and misunderstandings.”