>One of our senior psych majors is attempting to study the "psychology of
>e-mail". One of her questions is, "do people often use e-mail to avoid
>face-to-face interactions?" Her efforts to find quality journal
>articles on this topic have been minimally successful. If you know of
>articles that look at this phenomenon, please let us know. Thanks, in
>advance, for your help.
Given the topic, I would recommend looking at HomeNet, the folks who did
the study a year or so ago about how net use was associated with depression.
You can find the homenet home page (with lots of papers online) at:
http://homenet.andrew.cmu.edu/progress/
You might also look for a book on online interaction edited by Sara Kiesler
(one of the homenet folks):
Kiesler, S. (Ed.) (1997). Culture of the internet. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
These are two good places to start.
-Chuck
- Chuck Huff; 507.646.3169; http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/
- Psychology Department, St.Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057
