Abstract This research seeks to conceptualize how the communication messages that women received as they entered the workplace during the tumultuous seventies have impacted their own self-images, their perceptions of reality and, by extension, their lives. The aim of this research is not just to provide an overview of the lives of women in male-dominated professions nor to encourage young women to enter non-traditional occupations. Rather, this study seeks to recognize and understand the reasons...

Abstract The aim of this study was to explore the quality and credibility of personal relationships in a CMC environment, as well as examine the emergence of information overload as a byproduct of interpersonal communication that takes place in a virtual atmosphere, namely through the pervasive use of e-mail. Through its use and acceptance, communication behavior in the 21st Century looks completely different than it did 50 years ago. Basic to the research is an understanding of the differences...