Virtual work and human interaction research / [edited by] Shawn D. Long.

"Premier reference source"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Virtual work and human interaction research -- The way we work : past, present, and future / Wendy Wang -- Shadowing virtual work practices : describing subjects and objects as action nets / Craig L. Engstrom -- Teleworker's boundary management : temporal, spaitial and expectation-setting strategies / Kathryn L. Fonner and Lara C. Stache -- Thinking outside the office : the impact of virtual work on creative workers' attitudes / Beth Rubin and April Spivack -- Virtual vines : using participatory methods to connect virtual work with community-based practice / Marianne LeGreco, Dawn Leonard and Michelle Ferrier -- Reply timing and emotional strategy in mobile text communications of japanese young people : replies to messages conveying four different emotions / Yuuki Kato -- Australian users interactions with e-services in a virtual environment / Kamaljeet Sandhu -- High-touch interactivity around digital learning contents and virtual experiences : an initial exploration build on real-world cases / Shalin Hai Jew -- Virtual work research methods and approaches -- The role of experiments in a study of virtual groups / Lisa S. Walker and Anita L. Blanchard -- Grounded-theory approaches to research on virtual work : a brief primer / Lynne M. Webb and Gibson -- Exploring organizational cultures through virtual survey research / Eletra Gilchrist and Pavica Sheldon -- Conducting effective interviews about virtual work : gathering and analyzing data using a grounded-theory approach / Kerk Kee and Marceline Thompson-Hayes -- Virtual matters : exploring the communicative accomplishment of virtual work and virtual ethnography / Natalie Nelson-Marsh -- Mapping a typology for identifying the culturally-related challenges of global virtual teams : a research perspective / Norhayati Zakaria, Andrea Amelinckx and David Wilemon -- Phenomenology in virtual work / Shawn D. Long and Cerise Glenn -- Case study findings from human interaction with web e-services : qualitative data analysis / Kamaljeet Sandu -- Dramaturgical approaches in virtual work / Shawn D. Long, Frances Walton and Sayde Brais.

"This book uses humanistic and social scientific inquiry to explore how humans communicate, behave, and navigate in their new virtual work spaces, providing scholars and practitioners an opportunity to study virtual work from quantitative and qualitative research approaches"--Provided by publisher.