Title
Do You Know What I Know? A Shared Understandings Perspective on Text-Based Communication
Abstract
This article illustrates how the hermeneutic analysis of text illuminates how shared understandings affect our interpretations of lean communication in distributed work environments, It is proposed that in contrast to the pessimistic conclusions of media richness theory that lean communication channels cannot support complex or equivocal work tasks, miscommunications are not the result of technology, but rather occur due to a lack of shared understandings among the individuals communicating. An illustrative case Study based on fieldwork in franchise organizations is presented to demonstrate the possibilities for how the hermeneutic analysis of coherence, invention, intention, and reference can be used to discover how workers create and recreate shared understandings through text,
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00315.x
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
knowledge,interpreting
Social psychology,Social environment,Franchise,Media richness theory,Psychology,Pessimism
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
1083-6101
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.55
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael H. Dickey1524.93
Molly McLure Wasko22129114.48
Katherine M. Chudoba339823.17
Jason Bennett Thatcher4127464.77