Media Synchronicity Theory distinguishes conveying information for individual processing from converging on shared meaning. Five media capabilities support these processes differently, so collaboration may require switching or combining channels. Synchronicity concerns coordinated behavior, while familiarity and social conditions shape what coordination a particular communication episode requires.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.