The Gratification Niches of Personal E-mail and the Telephone

By John Dimmick, Susan L. Kline, Laura Stafford. Communication Research, 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Committed to Share: Commitment and CMC Use as Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing (2004, background): “Research also indicates that CMC can be expected to lower barriers in communication (Dimmick et al., 2000; Sproull and Kiesler, 1991), which makes the members of a group feel less ‘apart’ from each other and thus creates more cohesion in the group.”
TUNES THAT BIND? (2009, background): “Email seems to be particularly useful in sustaining long distance relationships, though widely used in local relationships (Baym et al. 2004; Chen et al. 2002; Dimmick et al. 2000; Ledbetter, 2008; Quan-Haase et al. 2002).”
INTERNET USES AND GRATIFICATIONS: A Structural Equation Model of Interactive Advertising (2005, background): “…media, such as cable television (Heeter and Greenberg 1985), VCR (Cohen, Levy, and Golden 1988; Levy 1987), pager (Leung and Wei 1999), e-mail (Dimmick, Kline, and Stafford 2000), and the World Wide Web (Eighmey 1997; Ferguson and Perse 2000; Korgaonkar and Wolin 1999; Lin 1999b; Luo 2002;…”
Social Interactions Across Media (2004, background): “How people choose to use the internet socially is influenced by their relationships, including their geographical distance and type, and individuals’ pre-existing sociability (Dimmick et al., 2000).”
The Effects of Cell Phone Usage Rules on Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships (2012, background): “Donner (2008) uncovered rules that Rwandans follow about ‘‘beeping,’’ or intentionally calling someone and hanging up before they can answer.”
Patterns of communication channel use in the maintenance of long‐distance relationships (2002, background): “This is consistent with research by Dimmick et al. (1994), who found three gratifications of telephone use: reassurances, socialization, and the completion of instrumental tasks.”
A Social-Cognitive Approach to Uses and Gratifications (2008, background): “Likewise, Eighmey and McCord (1998), Dimmick et al. (2000), and Flanagin and Metzger (2001) were included for completeness, but those studies did not investigate relationships between gratification factors and usage and so are not included in the analysis that follows.”