Publications

Publication details [#59110]

Newhagen, John E. and Wenjing Xie. 2014. The Effects of Communication Interface Proximity on User Anxiety for Crime Alerts Received on Desktop, Laptop, and Hand-Held Devices. Communication Research 41 (3) : 375–403.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative effect | crime | distress | emotion | ict-technology

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study confirms that communication interface proximity, i.e. via desktop, laptop, and hand-held device, affected college students’ anxiety for on-campus cime alerts via emails and text messages. A three-level model of anxiety is proposed.