R E Rice
Biographic Data
| ID | 9480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R E Rice |
| GIVEN NAMES | R E |
| FAMILY NAME | Rice |
| SIGNATURE | RICE R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6374-7860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 366 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Understanding how users may work around algorithmic bias
Algorithms increasingly mediate critical aspects of daily life across healthcare, hiring, and social media, shaping user experiences through automated decision-making processes. Yet, algorithmic bias, the systematic disadvantaging of certain groups through automated systems, has been widely documented across a variety of algorithms. Thus this study addresses the gap in understanding how users may respond to four epistemic categories of algorithm …
College students’ literacy, ChatGPT activities, educational outcomes, and trust from a digital divide perspective
This study investigates the association of socioeconomic status (SES) and digital and AI literacy with types of Chat GPT use by college students, with subsequent implications for academic self-efficacy and creativity, conditioned by trust. Analyses of a survey of U.S. college students (N = 947) show that SES has a greater association with AI literacy than with general digital literacy. Two dimensions of Chat GPT activities emerge: academic suppor…
Mastering boundaries
Multiple digital communication devices provide varying capabilities and processes for self-disclosure, surveillance, and privacy management, therefore eliciting a variety of user privacy perceptions and behaviours. Drawing from the media mastery framework and the comparative privacy research framework, this study investigates similarities and differences in online privacy outcomes associated with computer and mobile phone use via content analysis…
Illuminating the relative dominance of awareness and pervasiveness over visibility in organizational ICT affordances
Contemporary discourse on the affordances of organizational information and communication technologies (ICTs) has largely been captivated by the allure of visibility. This article challenges that glare by elucidating the overlooked yet pivotal roles of a set of other organizational ICT affordances. Through a dominance analysis, our findings illuminate that awareness—the capacity of ICTs to link information and actors in an ongoing digital tapestr…
U.S. Nonprofit Organizations Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are significant contributors culturally, socially, and economically, but little research has focused on their response to organizational crises. Research has been quickly documenting impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on different sectors, but again less so for NPOs. This is significant because research and recommendations developed in one sector (such as for-profit corporations) may not translate to others (such as NPO…
Mapping Media Developments and Issues
This study analyzed JMCQ articles in the specific topic area of mass communication technology and media channels, overall and across four 20-year periods. Primary topics changed from emphasizing media industry and policy issues, international issues of information freedom, audience research, and WWII media issues in early periods to more specific regulatory issues, ratings and audience analyses, macro and social issues, and media technology devel…
Media Use, Environmental Mediators, and Pro-environmental Behaviors across and within Countries
This study develops a model of direct association of exposure to environmental media content, and indirect association through environmental attitude and environmental efficacy, with pro-environmental behaviors. It also considers secondary media roles of exposure to general news media and involvement in mediated civic activism. The model and hypotheses are tested through Hayes Process mediation models, using secondary, cross-sectional survey data…
Relationships Among Environmental Attitudes, Environmental Efficacy, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors Across and Within 11 Countries
Pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) are crucial to reducing environmental degradations, and much research has focused on two key psychological antecedents: pro-environmental attitudes and efficacy beliefs. Yet, the evidence of their direct and interactive relationships are mixed. Further, few studies investigate how these key relationships vary across different countries and contexts. Using data from a large international survey ( N = 11,000) in 1…
W(h)ither the device divide? Changing relationships between personal computer or mobile device with online activities
The “device divide” occurs when uses of the Internet vary substantially by device. While the mobile phone was welcomed as a way to reduce the general digital divide, much early research presumed that mobile Internet was essentially inferior to personal-computer-based Internet in terms of possible online activities and related benefits. Given ongoing developments in devices, online activities, and socio-demographic differences, we reassess the dev…
Digital Discipline
Concertive control (CC) theory has primarily been applied to traditional offline, work-based, closed membership teams. New organizational forms such as online communities have opened up additional sites in which CC processes may operate. This article makes several contributions to CC theory and research. First, it increases the applicability of CC theory by extending it from offline to online, work to non-work, and closed to open membership conte…
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Technology and Society
This book is a guide into the increasingly interconnected domains of digital technology and society. It presents extensive reviews into several domains affected by digital technology and media, such as health, politics, and interpersonal relationships, which are developed from the findings of the “Ways of Being in a Digital Age” project commissioned by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The book includes interdisciplinary, compre…
Integrating the bright and dark sides of communication visibility for knowledge management and creativity
Boundary communication
This study investigates how boundary communication mediates the effects of smartphone use for work after hours on work-life conflict and organizational identification. It draws upon boundary theory, work-family border theory, and a structurational view of organizational identification. The research site was a large Scandinavian company operating in the telecommunications industry, with 367 employees responding to a survey at two time periods. In …
A review of the effects of uncertainty in public science communication
Uncertainty is inherent to science and science communication. However, the evidence appears mixed regarding whether portraying uncertainty in science communication has positive or negative effects. We review a diverse range of experimental literature ( k = 48; from 40 searches and 8000 retrievals), summarize the extant findings, and observe how the effects vary across four different types of communicated uncertainty ( deficient, technical, scient…
The Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Three Science Communication Topics
While uncertainty is central to science, many fear negative effects of communicating scientific uncertainties to the public, though research results about such effects are inconsistent. Therefore, we test the effects of four distinct uncertainty frame types (deficient, technical, scientific, consensus) on three outcomes (belief, credibility, behavioral intentions) across three science issues (climate change, GMO food labeling, machinery hazards) …
Frequent but Accurate
The prevalence of uncertainty and opinion divergence frames in climate change news reporting has generated concerns about the misrepresentation of scientific consensus. We first develop reliable, valid, and more nuanced measures of often-conflated types of uncertainty and opinion divergence frames. Then we analyse the co-occurrence combinations of those distinct types of opinions, sources, and topics in mainstream climate change news stories betw…
Portraying Protracted Conflict in the Entertainment Industry
The Case of the Screen Actors Guild Negotiations Protracted conflicts are common and complex, and differ from other types of disputes because of their ongoing escalation, non-negotiable issues, unsuccessful interventions, and passage of time.Prior research on this topic lacks good operationalizations of these features.This not only makes it difficult to compare research on how journalists and media portray such conflict, but also challenging to a…
Media Mastery
The range and capabilities of multiple new media require us to master paradoxical aspects of their uses and implications. Furthermore, those same media may also come to master us, through those paradoxes. Based on prior literature, we develop a four-component taxonomy of sites of media mastery (technology, technology-use, social contexts, and individual aspects). We apply and extend this framework to analyze summaries of focus group comments from…
Organizational Media Affordances
The concept of affordances has been increasingly applied to the study of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in organizational contexts. However, almost no research operationalizes affordances, limiting comparisons and programmatic research. This article briefly reviews conceptualizations and possibilities of affordances in general and for media, then introduces the concept of organizational media affordances as organizational resou…
Paradoxical implications of personal social media use for work
New information and communication technologies can have paradoxical implications: they may be liberating and constraining at the same time. This field study examines the direct implications of personal social media use for work on employees’ autonomy and work pressure, and the indirect effects on exhaustion and work engagement. A total of 364 employees of three large multinationals responded to a web‐based survey. Results demonstrate the presence…
A Dual-Identity Model of Responses to Deviance in Online Groups
Several theories have sought to address responses to normatively deviant behavior, but have done so with a focus either on group-level or on individual-level behavior. Yet, due to some characteristics of online contexts, identities can be salient at both a group and/or individual level, creating a more complex set of influences on responding to deviance. We explore responses to online communicative deviance by integrating social identity approach…
Somewhat Separate and Unequal
As Internet use grows globally, the digital divide has shifted beyond concerns about access and adoption to more subtle questions of skill, usage, and capital, and to new venues such as social networking sites (SNSs). Do digital divides persist across adoption/non-adoption of SNSs, across different SNSs, and across different capital-enhancing activities used on those SNSs? The current study analyzes a context where social ties are more salient fo…
The Contexts and Dynamics of Science Communication and Language
This final contribution to this special Journal of Language and Social Psychology issue on "using the science of language to improve translation of the language of science" places the articles in the context and nature of the broader literature on science communication, particularly as it relates to the media. This framework is crafted with a view to identifying the complex factors and processes that create translation problems, highlighting mode…
Intermediality and the Diffusion of Innovations
Interpersonal and mediated communication both play important roles in the diffusion of innovations, as part of the process, as well as the content, of diffusion. Yet the diffusion of new media has blurred the boundaries across interpersonal and mediated communication, and emphasized the decoupling of media from their attributes, summarized in the concept of intermediality. This article briefly considers implications of this intermediality for new…
Cumulative Advantage in Sustainability Communication
The knowledge deficit model proposes that more information increases public knowledge levels about a given topic and thus leads to improved attitudes and practice. However, research critiques the varying and limited ability of the deficit model. We argue that the deficit model can also produce an unintended cumulative advantage system: growing inequality between and within the knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP) gap of individuals and groups due to…
Electronic Emotion
This article investigates a new communication medium—public computer conferencing—by separately and jointly analyzing two basic aspects of human communication: (1) content, the extent to which such systems can support socioemotional communication, and (2) connectivity, communication patterns among system users. Results indicate that (1) computer-mediated communication systems can facilitate a moderate exchange of socioemotional content and (2) ba…
Media Appropriateness
This study assesses a scale measuring appropriateness of media for a variety of organizational communication activities and then compares seven media across six organizational sites. The ranking of media were face-to-face, telephone, meetings, desktop video and videoconferencing, voice mail, text, and electronic mail. Although information exchange and socioemotional relations dimensions emerged, the first provided a parsimonious solution. Multidi…
Reinvention in the Innovation Process
The purpose of this article is to discuss the concept of reinvention in the innovation process. We argue for its inclusion in research on the diffusion of innovations, and we suggest some possible typologies and implications of reinvention. There are over 3,000 titles in the literature on the diffusion of innovations (Rogers et al., 1977 and 1978), beginning with Ryan and Gross’s analysis (1943) of farmers who adopted the use of hybrid corn. This…
Configurations of Relationships in Different Media
This study analyzes the configurations of communication relationships in Korea through face-to-face, email, instant messaging, mobile phone, and short message service media. Through a web survey, we asked respondents to identify (1) for each of the five media (2) up to five of their most frequent communication partners, (3) the partner’s social role (including colleagues, family, friends), and (4) their own employment cate-gory. Individual-level …
Citation Networks of Communication Journals, 1977?1985 Cliques and Positions, Citations Made and Citations Received
Journal Article Citation Networks of Communication Journals, 1977–1985: Cliques and Positions, Citations Made and Citations Received Get access Ronald E. Rice, Ronald E. Rice 1Ronald E. Rice (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1982), is at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christine L. Borgman, Christine L. Borgman 2Christine L. Borgman (Ph.D., Stanford U…
The Internet, 1995-2000
This research, which began fielding surveys in 1995 (and thereafter with variation in 1996, 1997, and 2000), was apparently the first to use national random telephone survey methods to track social and community aspects of Internet use and compare users and nonusers. The program has explored the Internet in terms of trends in access, political and civic involvement, and social interaction. The authors uncovered serendipitously what they call the …
Paradoxical implications of personal social media use for work
New information and communication technologies can have paradoxical implications: they may be liberating and constraining at the same time. This field study examines the direct implications of personal social media use for work on employees’ autonomy and work pressure, and the indirect effects on exhaustion and work engagement. A total of 364 employees of three large multinationals responded to a web‐based survey. Results demonstrate the presence…
Communication Networking in Computer-Conferencing Systems
Artifacts and Paradoxes in New Media
A Dual-Identity Model of Responses to Deviance in Online Groups
Several theories have sought to address responses to normatively deviant behavior, but have done so with a focus either on group-level or on individual-level behavior. Yet, due to some characteristics of online contexts, identities can be salient at both a group and/or individual level, creating a more complex set of influences on responding to deviance. We explore responses to online communicative deviance by integrating social identity approach…
The Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Three Science Communication Topics
While uncertainty is central to science, many fear negative effects of communicating scientific uncertainties to the public, though research results about such effects are inconsistent. Therefore, we test the effects of four distinct uncertainty frame types (deficient, technical, scientific, consensus) on three outcomes (belief, credibility, behavioral intentions) across three science issues (climate change, GMO food labeling, machinery hazards) …
The Contexts and Dynamics of Science Communication and Language
This final contribution to this special Journal of Language and Social Psychology issue on "using the science of language to improve translation of the language of science" places the articles in the context and nature of the broader literature on science communication, particularly as it relates to the media. This framework is crafted with a view to identifying the complex factors and processes that create translation problems, highlighting mode…
The content of popular recordings 1
Somewhat Separate and Unequal
As Internet use grows globally, the digital divide has shifted beyond concerns about access and adoption to more subtle questions of skill, usage, and capital, and to new venues such as social networking sites (SNSs). Do digital divides persist across adoption/non-adoption of SNSs, across different SNSs, and across different capital-enhancing activities used on those SNSs? The current study analyzes a context where social ties are more salient fo…
Intermediality and the Diffusion of Innovations
Interpersonal and mediated communication both play important roles in the diffusion of innovations, as part of the process, as well as the content, of diffusion. Yet the diffusion of new media has blurred the boundaries across interpersonal and mediated communication, and emphasized the decoupling of media from their attributes, summarized in the concept of intermediality. This article briefly considers implications of this intermediality for new…
Million Strong
Online groups can become communities, developing group identification and fostering deindividuation. But is this possible for very large, anonymous groups with low barriers to entry, highly constrained formats, and great diversity of content? Applying social identity theory and social identification and deindividuation effects theory, this study assesses influences on group identification and deindividuation in the case of Imgur.com . Respondents…
Cumulative Advantage in Sustainability Communication
The knowledge deficit model proposes that more information increases public knowledge levels about a given topic and thus leads to improved attitudes and practice. However, research critiques the varying and limited ability of the deficit model. We argue that the deficit model can also produce an unintended cumulative advantage system: growing inequality between and within the knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP) gap of individuals and groups due to…
Bringing Social Worlds Together
Carolyn E. Aydin, Ronald E. Rice, Bringing Social Worlds Together: Computers as Catalysts for New Interactions in Health Care Organizations, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1992), pp. 168-185
U.S. Nonprofit Organizations Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are significant contributors culturally, socially, and economically, but little research has focused on their response to organizational crises. Research has been quickly documenting impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on different sectors, but again less so for NPOs. This is significant because research and recommendations developed in one sector (such as for-profit corporations) may not translate to others (such as NPO…
Divide and diffuse
Integrating digital divide and diffusion of innovations approaches, this study analyzes individual-level and market-level influences on the 8-year cumulative adoption of the mobile phone in one developing country. Considering each year separately, as tests of the typical digital divide model, age, education, economic condition, Internet access, and household size were significant divides in all years; employment, marital status, and urbanness wer…
Young Adults’ Perpetual Contact, Social Connectivity, and Social Control through the Internet and Mobile Phones
Each new communication medium provides different combinations and levels of way to facilitate and/or constrain social connections. These different patterns of connectivity in turn both represent and influence forms of social control. In particular, the Internet and mobile phones are fostering a sense of perpetual contact, the potential for pervasive, personal, and portable communication. This chapter considers how these aspects of perpetual conta…
Sociological and Technological Interdependencies of New Media
Somehow I got assigned to create a faculty bulletin board, with photos of each faculty member along with answers to several questions students had asked. Someone started on it about two years before, but there were photos and quotes from only about a third of the faculty. This seemed unnecessarily tacky-just who were the rest of the faculty, and why weren't they included? So, the Chair of the department, wisely realizing no one but me really care…
Personal Mediated Communication and the Concept of Community in Theory and Practice
This chapter has three purposes: first, to review theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of community that may be relevant to a better understanding of relationships between mediated communication and community; second, to explore how personal mediated communication may be affecting the creation, processes, and fates of communities; and third, to consider how the power of mediated communication technologies might alter traditional theor…
Chapter 9. Establishing Common Ground
The key message of this chapter is that solving the climate problem will require motivating social and behavioral changes through effective communication. More and better communication about climate issues is needed so people will mobilize solutions. Currently most people in the world do not believe that climate change is worth doing anything about, if they have even heard of it at all. Despite the efforts of many journalists, scientists, educato…
An Integrated Model of Knowledge Sharing in Contemporary Communication Environments
Why do people share (or withhold) knowledge through online public knowledge management systems (KMS)? What benefits and costs might they experience from doing so? How does one’s ability to cognitively integrate the knowledge shared through a KMS affect these costs and benefits? Sharing knowledge, both contributing and collecting, requires active communication and engagement with others; involves complex issues about knowledge, governance structur…
Telecommunications Alternatives for Developing Countries
Ronald E. Rice, Edwin B. Parker; Telecommunications Alternatives for Developing Countries, Journal of Communication, Volume 29, Issue 4, 1 December 1979, P
The content of popular recordings 1
Reinvention in the Innovation Process
The purpose of this article is to discuss the concept of reinvention in the innovation process. We argue for its inclusion in research on the diffusion of innovations, and we suggest some possible typologies and implications of reinvention. There are over 3,000 titles in the literature on the diffusion of innovations (Rogers et al., 1977 and 1978), beginning with Ryan and Gross’s analysis (1943) of farmers who adopted the use of hybrid corn. This…
The Negopy network analysis program
Communication Networking in Computer-Conferencing Systems
Electronic Message Systems in the University
Ronald E. Rice, Donald Case; Electronic Message Systems in the University: A Description of Use and Utility, Journal of Communication, Volume 33, Issue 1
Communication Research and the New Media Technologies
(1983). Communication Research and the New Media Technologies. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 7, Communication Yearbook 7, pp. 200-224
Longitudinal non-euclidean networks
Applying the human relations perspective to the study of new media
The Human Relations perspective is one of six perspectives, suggested by Kling and colleagues, that analysts take when studying the impacts of computers. This short note looks at the assumptions of this perspective by focussing on a particular component of the human relations approach. This component is the participation or involvement of users in the implementation and management of communication systems in organizations. It very briefly notes p…
Group Communication Networking in an Information Environment
Computer-Mediated Communication and Organizational Innovation
Journal Article Computer-Mediated Communication and Organizational Innovation Get access Ronald E. Rice Ronald E. Rice 1Ronald E. Rice is Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 37, Issue 4, December 1987, Pages 65–94, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1987.tb01009.x Published: 07 Feb…
The Case of the Intelligent Telephone
Electronic Emotion
This article investigates a new communication medium—public computer conferencing—by separately and jointly analyzing two basic aspects of human communication: (1) content, the extent to which such systems can support socioemotional communication, and (2) connectivity, communication patterns among system users. Results indicate that (1) computer-mediated communication systems can facilitate a moderate exchange of socioemotional content and (2) ba…
Citation Networks of Communication Journals, 1977?1985 Cliques and Positions, Citations Made and Citations Received
Journal Article Citation Networks of Communication Journals, 1977–1985: Cliques and Positions, Citations Made and Citations Received Get access Ronald E. Rice, Ronald E. Rice 1Ronald E. Rice (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1982), is at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christine L. Borgman, Christine L. Borgman 2Christine L. Borgman (Ph.D., Stanford U…
Issues and Concepts in Research on Computer-Mediated Communication Systems
Computers and telecommunications networks have converged to provide a new category of communication media: computer-mediated communication systems (CMCS). The increasing development and application of these systems is matched by increasing research concerning their uses and implications. However, it is often difficult to integrate this body of research across disciplines, technologies, and research processes. Further, such research is often too n…
Individual and network influences on the adoption and perceived outcomes of electronic messaging
Bringing Social Worlds Together
Carolyn E. Aydin, Ronald E. Rice, Bringing Social Worlds Together: Computers as Catalysts for New Interactions in Health Care Organizations, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1992), pp. 168-185
Media Appropriateness
This study assesses a scale measuring appropriateness of media for a variety of organizational communication activities and then compares seven media across six organizational sites. The ranking of media were face-to-face, telephone, meetings, desktop video and videoconferencing, voice mail, text, and electronic mail. Although information exchange and socioemotional relations dimensions emerged, the first provided a parsimonious solution. Multidi…
Network Analysis and Computer-Mediated Communication Systems
Cross-cultural comparison of organizational media evaluation and choice
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Organizational Media Evaluation and Choice
Managers working in four countries reported the richness of five media, equivocality of 11 situations, preferred media for each situation, and cultural values. The richness and equivocality measures were reliable and unidimensional. Face-to-face was ranked as most, and business memos least, rich. Only E-mail and telephone preferences were significantly correlated with richness. Media preferences for face-to-face and telephone for each situation w…
Artifacts and Paradoxes in New Media
Network Influences on Involvement in the Hybrid Problem Area of Developmental Dyslexia
A scientific communication model of the emergence of a hybrid research area was developed and tested in the field of developmental dyslexia, using multiple data sources concerning personal, professional, publication, and network aspects of seventy-four dyslexia researchers. Results suggest that societal concerns, federal research policy, and grant funding may play major roles in encouraging growth and change in a problem area, but that subject ba…
The Internet and Health Communication
The Internet, 1995-2000
This research, which began fielding surveys in 1995 (and thereafter with variation in 1996, 1997, and 2000), was apparently the first to use national random telephone survey methods to track social and community aspects of Internet use and compare users and nonusers. The program has explored the Internet in terms of trends in access, political and civic involvement, and social interaction. The authors uncovered serendipitously what they call the …
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