Interactivity |
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| An ongoing compilation of texts that deal with the idea of interactivity from a communications perspective. For the most part I have omitted texts that focus on interactive narrative, an interesting but narrower topic (the intersection with literary studies can take the discourse far afield from media studies). | |
| AUTHOR | DATE | TITLE | SOURCE |
| Archer, M. S. | 2000 | Being Human: The Problem of Agency. Cambridge University
Press. * This book is not about technology at all, but I find the concept of agency crucial to any examination of interactivity. |
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| Boczkowski, P. J. | 2004 | Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. * Read pp. 141-169. |
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| Bucy, E. P. | 2004 | Interactivity in society: Locating an elusive concept | The Information Society, 20(5), 373-383 |
| Bucy, E. P. | 2004 | The interactivity paradox: closer to the news but confused | In E. P. Bucy and J. E. Newhagen (Eds.), Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology (pp. 47-72). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum. |
| Cover, R. | 2006 | Audience inter/active: Interactive media, narrative control and reconceiving audience history | New Media & Society, 8(1), 139-158 |
| Crawford, Chris | 2003 | Interactive storytelling * The first four pages are essential. The rest is about the Erasmatron. |
In M.J.P. Wolf & B. Perron (Eds.), The Video Game Theory Reader (pp. 259-273). New York: Routledge. |
| Downes, E. J., & McMillan, S. J. | 2000 | Defining interactivity: a qualitative identification of key dimensions | New Media & Society, 2(2), 157-179 |
| Ha, L., & James, L. |
1998 | Interactivity re-examined: a baseline analysis of early business Web sites | Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 42(4), 457-474 |
| Hall, S. | 1980 | Encoding/decoding * Not about computers, but quite definitely about interaction. |
In S. Hall, D. Hobson, A. Lowe & P. Willis (Eds.), Culture, Media, Language (pp. 128-138). London: Hutchinson. |
| Hallnäs, L., & Redström, J. |
2002 | From use to presence: on the expressions and aesthetics
of everyday computational things * While Steuer (see below) treats telepresence, this article is more relevant to the ubiquity of small mobile devices. |
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 9(2), 106-124 |
| Heeter, C. |
1989 | Implications of interactivity for communication research * Do not fail to read this. In spite of its age, it is still great. |
In J. L. Salvaggio and J. Bryant (Eds.), Media Use in the Information Age: Emerging Patterns of Adoption and Consumer Use (pp. 217-235). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. |
| Heeter, C. | 2000 | Interactivity in the context of designed experiences |
Journal of Interactive Advertising, 1(1). Retrieved November 1, 2003, from http://jiad.org/vol1/no1/heeter/ |
| Hewett, T., Baecker, R., Card, S., Carey, T., Gasen,
J., Mantei, M., Perlman, G., Strong, G., & Verplank, W. |
1996 | Human-Computer Interaction | ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction. Retrieved November 1, 2003, from http://www.acm.org/sigchi/ cdg/cdg2.html#2_1 |
| Huhtamo , E. | 1998 | From cybernation to interaction: a contribution to an archaelogy of interactivity | In P. Lunenfeld (Ed.), The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (pp. 96-110). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
| Jensen, J. F. |
1998 | Interactivity: tracking a new concept in media and communication studies | Nordicom Review, 19(1),
185-204. Retrieved November 1, 2003, from http://
www.nordicom.gu.se/ reviewcontents/ ncomreview/ ncomreview198/ jensen.pdf * A newer version appears in P. A. Mayer (Ed.), Computer Media and Communication: A Reader (pp. 160–187). Oxford University Press. |
| Kenney, K., Gorelik, A., & Mwangi, S. | 2000 | Interactive features of online newspapers | First Monday, 5(1). Retrieved November 1, 2003, from http:// firstmonday.org/ issues/ issue5_1/ kenney/index.html |
| Kiousis, S. |
2002 | Interactivity: a concept explication | New Media & Society, 4(3), 255-283 |
| Laurel, B. |
1993 | Computers as Theatre. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. | |
| Liu, Y., & Shrum, L. J. |
2002 | What is interactivity and is it always such a good thing? Implications of definition, person, and situation for the influence of interactivity on advertising effectiveness | Journal of Advertising, 31(4), 53-64 |
| Lombard, M., & Ditton, T. |
1997 | At the heart of it all: the concept of presence | Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, 3(2). Retrieved July 9, 2006, from http://
jcmc.indiana.edu/ vol3/issue2/ lombard.html |
| Massey, B. L., & Levy, M. R. | 1999 | Interactivity, online journalism, and English-language Web newspapers in Asia | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 76(1), 138-151 |
| McMillan, S. J. |
2002 | Exploring models of interactivity from multiple research traditions: users, documents, and systems | In L. Lievrouw and S. Livingston (Eds.), The Handbook of New Media (pp. 162-182). London: Sage. |
| McMillan, S. J. | 2002 | A four-part model of cyber-interactivity: some cyber-places are more interactive than others | New Media & Society, 4(2), 271-291 |
| McMillan, S. J., & Hwang, J. S. |
2002 | Measures of perceived interactivity: an exploration of the role of direction of communication, user control, and time in shaping perceptions of interactivity | Journal of Advertising, 31(3), 41-54 |
| Meadows, M. S. | 2003 | Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative.
Indianapolis: New Riders. |
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| Murray, J. H. |
1997 | Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future
of Narrative in Cyberspace. New York: Free Press. |
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| Newhagen, J. E. | 2004 | Interactivity, dynamic symbol processing, and the emergence of content in human communication | The Information Society, 20(5), 395-400 |
| Oblak, T. | 2005 | The lack of interactivity and hypertextuality in online media | Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 67(1), 87–106 |
| Rafaeli, S. |
1988 | Interactivity: from new media to communication | In R. P. Hawkins, J. M. Wiemann, and S. Pingree (Eds.), Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes (pp. 110-134). Sage Annual Review of Communication Research, Vol. 16. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. |
| Rafaeli, S. |
1990 | Interacting with media: para-social interaction and real interaction | In B. D. Ruben and L. A. Lievrouw (Eds.), Mediation, Information, and Communication: Information and Behavior (pp. 125-181). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. |
| Rafaeli, S., & Sudweeks, F. |
1997 | Networked interactivity * Still a great article, but decidedly focused on CMC, and not on HCI. |
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2(4). Retrieved November 11, 2005, from http:// jcmc.indiana.edu/ vol2/issue4/ rafaeli.sudweeks.html |
| Raskin, J. | 2000 | The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive
Systems. Boston: ACM Press/Addison-Wesley. * Okay, this is really HCI and not media studies at all. But it is SUCH a good book! If you want to understand what interface designers think about, read this. |
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| Reeves, B., and Nass, C. |
1996 | The Media Equation:
How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People
and Places. Cambridge University Press. |
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| Schultz, T. |
1999 | Interactive options in online journalism: a content analysis of 100 U.S. newspapers | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 5(1). Retrieved November 10, 2005, from: http:// jcmc.indiana.edu/ vol5/issue1/ schultz.html |
| Schultz, T. |
2000 | Mass media and the concept of interactivity: an exploratory study of online forums and reader e-mail | Media, Culture & Society, 22(2), 205-221 |
| Sohn, D., & Lee, B. | 2005 | Dimensions of interactivity: Differential effects of social and psychological factors | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3). Retrieved November 10, 2005, from: http:// jcmc.indiana.edu/ vol10/issue3/ sohn.html |
| Steuer, J. |
1995 | Defining virtual reality: dimensions determining telepresence | In F. Biocca & M. R. Levy
(Eds.), Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality (pp. 33-56). Hillsdale,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. * Originally in Journal of Communication, 42(4), 73-93. |
| Stromer-Galley, J. | 2004 | Interactivity-as-product and interactivity-as-process | The Information Society, 20(5), 391-394 |
| Sundar, S. S. | 2004 | Theorizing interactivity's effects | The Information Society, 20(5), 385-389 |
| Sundar, S. S.; Kalyanaraman, S., & Brown, J. | 2003 | Explicating Web site interactivity: impression formation effects in political campaign sites |
Communication Research, 30(1), 30–59 |
| Tremayne, M. | 2005 | Lessons learned from experiments with interactivity
on the Web Quote: "When it comes to conceptualizations of interactivity, most researchers are choosing between the functional view of interactivity and the perceptual view and are designing their studies accordingly." |
Journal of Interactive Advertising, 5(2). Retrieved July 9, 2006, from: http:// www.jiad.org/ vol5/no2/ tremayne/ |
| Tremayne, M., & Dunwoody, S. | 2001 | Interactivity, information processing, and learning on the World Wide Web |
Science Communication, 23(2), 111–134 |
| Wu, G. | 2005 | The mediating role of perceived interactivity in the effect of actual interactivity on attitude toward the Website | Journal of Interactive Advertising, 5(2) . Retrieved September 17, 2005, from: http://www.jiad.org/ vol5/no2/wu/ |
| Contents of this page compiled by Melinda J. McAdams. | |||
| Publication date: 25 Sept 2004 | Updated 19 Nov 2006 | |||