Charles Steinfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 1489622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Steinfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinfield |
| SIGNATURE | STEINFIELD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2579-755X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1,133 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society
Enterprise Social Media
Social media are increasingly implemented in work organizations as tools for communication among employees. It is important that we develop an understanding of how they enable and constrain the communicative activities through which work is accomplished because it is these very dynamics that constitute and perpetuate organizations. We begin by offering a definition of enterprise social media and providing a rough historical account of the various…
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Rural Business Clusters
This study examines the relationships between information and communication technologies (ICT) usage, the benefits a company derives from membership in a rural business cluster, and the success of rural companies. Analysis of 333 rural businesses located in northern lower Michigan showed a strong relationship between (a) ICT adoption and benefits derived from the membership in business clusters, (b) ICT adoption and self-reported business success…
The Use of Online Social Networking by Rural Youth and Its Effects on Community Attachment
In recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been placed on improving access to Information and Communication Technology in the United States. With the rapidity at which broadband construction projects are dotting America, it is important to understand the social impacts of these infrastructural projects. One particularly salient issue is whether access to the Internet would decrease the involvement of youth in their home communities si…
Serious social media
Connection strategies
This study assesses whether Facebook users have different ‘connection strategies,’ a term which describes a suite of Facebook-related relational communication activities, and explores the relationship between these connection strategies and social capital. Survey data ( N = 450) from a random sample of undergraduate students reveal that only social information-seeking behaviors contribute to perceptions of social capital; connection strategies th…
Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites
Featuresocial network sites and society
research-article Share on FEATURESocial network sites and society: current trends and future possibilities Authors: Nicole B. Ellison Michigan State University Michigan State UniversityView Profile , Cliff Lampe Michigan State University Michigan State UniversityView Profile , Charles Steinfield Michigan State University Michigan State UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 16Issue 1January + February 2009 pp 6–9https://d…
Understanding the Role of ICT Networks in a Biotechnology Cluster
Based on a wide-ranging literature review, we argue that the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure has not received adequate attention for its role in the development and maintenance of industrial clusters. This article develops expectations for how firms in an industrial cluster make use of a public, broadband ICT infrastructure, particularly in support of e-commerce applications. We further address the question of wheth…
A familiar face(book)
Using data from a popular online social network site, this paper explores the relationship between profile structure (namely, which fields are completed) and number of friends, giving designers insight into the importance of the profile and how it works to encourage connections and articulated relationships between users. We describe a theoretical framework that draws on aspects of signaling theory, common ground theory, and transaction costs the…
Communities and Technologies 2007
"The Benefits of Facebook "Friends
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital. Regression analyses conducted on results from a survey of…
A face(book) in the crowd
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people in their offline communities or to learn more about people they initially meet offline. Our data suggest that users are largely employing Facebook to learn more about people they meet offline, and are less likely to use the site to initiate new connections.
The Impact Of Interorganizational Networks On Buyer-Seller Relationships
Interorganizational data networks can have two opposing effects on buyer-seller relationships. On the one hand, networks may be used to foster electronic marketplaces characterized by more ephemeral transactions between buyers and sellers. Also plausible, however, is the use of networks to strengthen existing commercial relationships and lock in partners by increasing the costs of switching to new trading partners. Our review of the literature su…
Electronic Commerce
Based upon sheer attention in the popular press, 1995 has been the year of the Internet. Exponential growth in the number of Internet users, the number of hosts connected to the World Wide Web, and the number of companies establishing a Web presence has created a gold rush mentality among firms and investors. The application that is fueling this euphoria is electronic commerce, and many are convinced that the day in which we all buy everything fr…
Intermediaries and Cybermediaries
The advent of nearly ubiquitous information infrastructures has led many to predict that one effect of electronic markets will be the bypassing of intermediaries in electronic markets. The ability of electronic networks to reduce transaction costs is the theoretical cause of this supposed trend. We suggest that, on the contrary, not only is it likely that widely available information infrastructures will reinforce the position of traditional inte…
Ehealth
Due to the economic and social priorities afforded health services in the United States, research on new delivery modalities such as the Internet is gaining in popularity. Claims of the Internet's potential range from a promise to revolutionize the fundamental way health care is delivered to a tool for empowering patients through enhanced interaction with providers (Rice, 2001). Even though a great amount of attention has been given to e-health a…
Coordination and Virtualization
One view holds that organizations are virtual to the extent that they outsource key components of their production processes, and that electronic networks make it easier to do this. The goal of the present paper is to examine explicitly the effects that use of electronic networks for transactions with suppliers have on firms' degree of virtualization. In so doing, we also highlight factors that influence the use of networks for coordination with …
Community Level Socio-Economic Impacts of Electronic Commerce
As electronic commerce grows, an important socio-economic side effect will be increased competition with the traditional businesses in any given local community. Our research suggests that local merchants typically go online in order to better access distant markets, but are often unprepared to cater to remote customers and hence do not fare well. In this paper, we suggest that it is important to consider now how electronic commerce may influence…
Computer Mediated Markets
Electronic commerce may influence the way in which goods are traded between businesses. Many believe that Internet-based business-to-business e-commerce will reduce the extent to which firms buying goods and services are “locked in” to a single supplier. Using a secondary analysis of data collected in late 1996 on firms' use of electronic networks for transactions, we empirically test the effects of Internet use on buyer lock-in. Results are weak…
Situated Electronic Commerce
The adoption and use of electronic commerce by many firms was shaped by a number of assumptions about how it adds value to economic exchange. Many of these assumptions have direct relevance for the interaction between e-commerce and geography in that they emphasized the ability of e-commerce to transcend distance and reach into markets without physical presence. The belief in this ability was based on the immediacy of electronic transmission and …
Virtual Teams and the Appropriation of Communication Technology
Supporting awareness among virtual teams in a web-based collaborative system
This paper overviews a Web-based collaborative system called TeamSCOPE that has been designed to support awareness needs of globally distributed teams. Four types of awareness needs of virtual teams are defined and the awareness support features of TeamSCOPE are described. The use of TeamSCOPE in a project involving a number of globally distributed engineering design teams is outlined, and evaluation results are provided. Findings illustrate how …
Changer les relations dans la société de l'information
This article focuses on the use of new information networks in the business wold through their threefold impact : - the changes they spawn in the corporate organization ; - their impact on inter-firm relations ; - the limites of the use of electronic communications as a replacement for human interaction. Can this be considered as a whole new set of circumstances or merely a re-organization of existing ones. The article leaves this question open
A Social Influence Model of Technology use
"The Benefits of Facebook "Friends
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital. Regression analyses conducted on results from a survey of…
Connection strategies
This study assesses whether Facebook users have different ‘connection strategies,’ a term which describes a suite of Facebook-related relational communication activities, and explores the relationship between these connection strategies and social capital. Survey data ( N = 450) from a random sample of undergraduate students reveal that only social information-seeking behaviors contribute to perceptions of social capital; connection strategies th…
Enterprise Social Media
Social media are increasingly implemented in work organizations as tools for communication among employees. It is important that we develop an understanding of how they enable and constrain the communicative activities through which work is accomplished because it is these very dynamics that constitute and perpetuate organizations. We begin by offering a definition of enterprise social media and providing a rough historical account of the various…
Intermediaries and Cybermediaries
The advent of nearly ubiquitous information infrastructures has led many to predict that one effect of electronic markets will be the bypassing of intermediaries in electronic markets. The ability of electronic networks to reduce transaction costs is the theoretical cause of this supposed trend. We suggest that, on the contrary, not only is it likely that widely available information infrastructures will reinforce the position of traditional inte…
Community Level Socio-Economic Impacts of Electronic Commerce
As electronic commerce grows, an important socio-economic side effect will be increased competition with the traditional businesses in any given local community. Our research suggests that local merchants typically go online in order to better access distant markets, but are often unprepared to cater to remote customers and hence do not fare well. In this paper, we suggest that it is important to consider now how electronic commerce may influence…
Computer-Mediated Communication in an Organizational Setting
(1986). Computer-Mediated Communication in an Organizational Setting: Explaining Task-Related and Socioemotional Uses. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 9, Communication Yearbook 9, pp. 777-804
Situated Electronic Commerce
The adoption and use of electronic commerce by many firms was shaped by a number of assumptions about how it adds value to economic exchange. Many of these assumptions have direct relevance for the interaction between e-commerce and geography in that they emphasized the ability of e-commerce to transcend distance and reach into markets without physical presence. The belief in this ability was based on the immediacy of electronic transmission and …
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Rural Business Clusters
This study examines the relationships between information and communication technologies (ICT) usage, the benefits a company derives from membership in a rural business cluster, and the success of rural companies. Analysis of 333 rural businesses located in northern lower Michigan showed a strong relationship between (a) ICT adoption and benefits derived from the membership in business clusters, (b) ICT adoption and self-reported business success…
Understanding the Role of ICT Networks in a Biotechnology Cluster
Based on a wide-ranging literature review, we argue that the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure has not received adequate attention for its role in the development and maintenance of industrial clusters. This article develops expectations for how firms in an industrial cluster make use of a public, broadband ICT infrastructure, particularly in support of e-commerce applications. We further address the question of wheth…
The Impact Of Interorganizational Networks On Buyer-Seller Relationships
Interorganizational data networks can have two opposing effects on buyer-seller relationships. On the one hand, networks may be used to foster electronic marketplaces characterized by more ephemeral transactions between buyers and sellers. Also plausible, however, is the use of networks to strengthen existing commercial relationships and lock in partners by increasing the costs of switching to new trading partners. Our review of the literature su…
Computer Mediated Markets
Electronic commerce may influence the way in which goods are traded between businesses. Many believe that Internet-based business-to-business e-commerce will reduce the extent to which firms buying goods and services are “locked in” to a single supplier. Using a secondary analysis of data collected in late 1996 on firms' use of electronic networks for transactions, we empirically test the effects of Internet use on buyer lock-in. Results are weak…
Coordination and Virtualization
One view holds that organizations are virtual to the extent that they outsource key components of their production processes, and that electronic networks make it easier to do this. The goal of the present paper is to examine explicitly the effects that use of electronic networks for transactions with suppliers have on firms' degree of virtualization. In so doing, we also highlight factors that influence the use of networks for coordination with …
Computer-Mediated Communication in an Organizational Setting
(1986). Computer-Mediated Communication in an Organizational Setting: Explaining Task-Related and Socioemotional Uses. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 9, Communication Yearbook 9, pp. 777-804
A Social Information Processing Model of Media Use in Organizations
This article presents a model of how social influence processes affect individuals' attitudes toward communication media and media use behavior. The model integrates two areas of research. One body of work posits that media use patterns are the outcome of objectively rational choices. These choices involve evaluating communication options and selecting an appropriate medium to match the communication requirements of the task. The second perspecti…
A Social Influence Model of Technology use
Organizations and Communication Technology
The Theory Imperative
Changer les relations dans la société de l'information
This article focuses on the use of new information networks in the business wold through their threefold impact : - the changes they spawn in the corporate organization ; - their impact on inter-firm relations ; - the limites of the use of electronic communications as a replacement for human interaction. Can this be considered as a whole new set of circumstances or merely a re-organization of existing ones. The article leaves this question open
Supporting awareness among virtual teams in a web-based collaborative system
This paper overviews a Web-based collaborative system called TeamSCOPE that has been designed to support awareness needs of globally distributed teams. Four types of awareness needs of virtual teams are defined and the awareness support features of TeamSCOPE are described. The use of TeamSCOPE in a project involving a number of globally distributed engineering design teams is outlined, and evaluation results are provided. Findings illustrate how …
Virtual Teams and the Appropriation of Communication Technology
Situated Electronic Commerce
The adoption and use of electronic commerce by many firms was shaped by a number of assumptions about how it adds value to economic exchange. Many of these assumptions have direct relevance for the interaction between e-commerce and geography in that they emphasized the ability of e-commerce to transcend distance and reach into markets without physical presence. The belief in this ability was based on the immediacy of electronic transmission and …
A face(book) in the crowd
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people in their offline communities or to learn more about people they initially meet offline. Our data suggest that users are largely employing Facebook to learn more about people they meet offline, and are less likely to use the site to initiate new connections.
The Impact Of Interorganizational Networks On Buyer-Seller Relationships
Interorganizational data networks can have two opposing effects on buyer-seller relationships. On the one hand, networks may be used to foster electronic marketplaces characterized by more ephemeral transactions between buyers and sellers. Also plausible, however, is the use of networks to strengthen existing commercial relationships and lock in partners by increasing the costs of switching to new trading partners. Our review of the literature su…
Electronic Commerce
Based upon sheer attention in the popular press, 1995 has been the year of the Internet. Exponential growth in the number of Internet users, the number of hosts connected to the World Wide Web, and the number of companies establishing a Web presence has created a gold rush mentality among firms and investors. The application that is fueling this euphoria is electronic commerce, and many are convinced that the day in which we all buy everything fr…
Intermediaries and Cybermediaries
The advent of nearly ubiquitous information infrastructures has led many to predict that one effect of electronic markets will be the bypassing of intermediaries in electronic markets. The ability of electronic networks to reduce transaction costs is the theoretical cause of this supposed trend. We suggest that, on the contrary, not only is it likely that widely available information infrastructures will reinforce the position of traditional inte…
Ehealth
Due to the economic and social priorities afforded health services in the United States, research on new delivery modalities such as the Internet is gaining in popularity. Claims of the Internet's potential range from a promise to revolutionize the fundamental way health care is delivered to a tool for empowering patients through enhanced interaction with providers (Rice, 2001). Even though a great amount of attention has been given to e-health a…
Coordination and Virtualization
One view holds that organizations are virtual to the extent that they outsource key components of their production processes, and that electronic networks make it easier to do this. The goal of the present paper is to examine explicitly the effects that use of electronic networks for transactions with suppliers have on firms' degree of virtualization. In so doing, we also highlight factors that influence the use of networks for coordination with …
Community Level Socio-Economic Impacts of Electronic Commerce
As electronic commerce grows, an important socio-economic side effect will be increased competition with the traditional businesses in any given local community. Our research suggests that local merchants typically go online in order to better access distant markets, but are often unprepared to cater to remote customers and hence do not fare well. In this paper, we suggest that it is important to consider now how electronic commerce may influence…
Computer Mediated Markets
Electronic commerce may influence the way in which goods are traded between businesses. Many believe that Internet-based business-to-business e-commerce will reduce the extent to which firms buying goods and services are “locked in” to a single supplier. Using a secondary analysis of data collected in late 1996 on firms' use of electronic networks for transactions, we empirically test the effects of Internet use on buyer lock-in. Results are weak…
A familiar face(book)
Using data from a popular online social network site, this paper explores the relationship between profile structure (namely, which fields are completed) and number of friends, giving designers insight into the importance of the profile and how it works to encourage connections and articulated relationships between users. We describe a theoretical framework that draws on aspects of signaling theory, common ground theory, and transaction costs the…
Communities and Technologies 2007
"The Benefits of Facebook "Friends
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital. Regression analyses conducted on results from a survey of…
Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites
Featuresocial network sites and society
research-article Share on FEATURESocial network sites and society: current trends and future possibilities Authors: Nicole B. Ellison Michigan State University Michigan State UniversityView Profile , Cliff Lampe Michigan State University Michigan State UniversityView Profile , Charles Steinfield Michigan State University Michigan State UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 16Issue 1January + February 2009 pp 6–9https://d…
Understanding the Role of ICT Networks in a Biotechnology Cluster
Based on a wide-ranging literature review, we argue that the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure has not received adequate attention for its role in the development and maintenance of industrial clusters. This article develops expectations for how firms in an industrial cluster make use of a public, broadband ICT infrastructure, particularly in support of e-commerce applications. We further address the question of wheth…
The Use of Online Social Networking by Rural Youth and Its Effects on Community Attachment
In recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been placed on improving access to Information and Communication Technology in the United States. With the rapidity at which broadband construction projects are dotting America, it is important to understand the social impacts of these infrastructural projects. One particularly salient issue is whether access to the Internet would decrease the involvement of youth in their home communities si…
Serious social media
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