New and Old Interpersonal Communication Media in Competition : Cell Phone, E-mail, and Telephone

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In spite of the growing importance of new interpersonal communication media such as the cell phone and e-mail, these media, including the telephone, have not received much attention from communication researchers compared to other mass media. Moreover, most interpersonal communication media studies have focused on interpersonal media separately. The current study attempts to investigate the use of the cell phone, e-mail, and the telephone in the overall context of today's changing interpersonal communication media environment. A survey with college students found that the motivations for using these three interpersonal communication media were different. Also, it was found that the level of cell phone use was positively correlated with that of the telephone, but not with that of e-mail.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• The Cell Phone Phenomenon
• The Uses and Gratifications Approach and the Interpersonal Communication Media
• Method
• Results
• Discussions
• References