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Radford, Marie L.; Radford, Gary P.; Connaway, Lynn Silipigni; DeAngelis, Jocelyn A. – Library Quarterly, 2011
Erving Goffman's theoretical framework and concept of face-work has the potential to greatly increase the understanding of interpersonal dynamics in computer-mediated communication realms. This research used an ethnography of communication approach and the concept of face-work to analyze the transcript of an interaction between a librarian and a…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication
Giannini, Tula – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Compares the traditional model of the reference interview with a new model based on online information process. Findings offer new perspectives on the reference interview process and lend support to the adoption of a new reference model which shifts its venue from a person to person process, to one in which information itself provides the platform…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Interaction