Research Progress 3

In the past few days, I have been working on finding papers that discuss about the concept of social presence.

So far I have found one definition of social presence which was developed by Short, Williams and Christie in 1976. According to Short et al., social presence means "degree of salience of the other person in the interaction and the consequent salience of the interpersonal relationships".

I've read other papers have literature review on social presence. It seemed that there are other researchers' perspective on what social presence is and what effect it has on learners when they are learning in CMC settings.

I think one thing that I try to deal with is that there is always something that worth reading in other papers. I always find that what I have read so far for a particular area might not be enough for my literature review. In other words, I don't know when I should stop digging information on one area and move on to another one. That's the hardest thing I have encountered so far. That's also why for so many weeks and I'm still stuck in finding more lit. review on social presence.