Title
The Power of We: Using Instant Messaging for Student Group Project Discussion
Abstract
Online group work has been identified as an important issue in Web-based education for a long time. With the prevalence of instant messaging in adolescents, more and more students opt to choose this emerging synchronous communication medium for online group project discussion. In this paper, we- intention to use instant messaging for online group project discussion was examined and a research model of we-intention was proposed and empirically tested with 482 students in China. The research model explains 43.2% of the variance in we-intention and attitude, anticipated emotions, group norms and social identity are found statistically significant. Implications for both researchers and practitioners are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/HICSS.2008.449
Waikoloa, HI
Keywords
Field
DocType
social influence,we-intention,student group project discussion,e- collaboration,social computing technology,theory of reasoned action,synchronous communication medium,instant messaging,e-learning,goal- directed emotion,social computing,social identity,statistical significance,synchronous communication
Asynchronous communication,Social identity theory,Computer science,Instant messaging,Knowledge management,Group work,Theory of reasoned action,Social influence,Computer-mediated communication,Social computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1605
0-7695-3075-8
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aaron X. L. Shen122116.98
Christy M. K. Cheung22819113.28
Matthew K. O. Lee32807198.41
Wei Ping Wang420.37