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Virtual and Face-to-Face Communication
With the advent of the internet and other related technologies, many organizations have embarked to the formation of virtual teams to complement the traditional face-to-face groups .these teams comprise of geographically distributed knowledge workers who collaborate on a variety of organization al work place tasks .these people are virtually interconnected through computer mediated communication systems (CMCs) which support and enhance the communication related activities of members engaged in computer supported cooperative work, facilitated by technologies characterized by time, space and level of support whereby the team members communicate synchronously or as synchronously in the same location (physical) or remotely .
Synchronous meetings are usually spontaneous in the fact that ideas are exchanged with little or no structure at all, difficult to attribute or establish the reasoning behind internet relay chat (irc) or web based "chat rooms" structured...
from the psychological point-of-view face-to-face communication is influential in a manner that unlike virtual team members, teams in these scenario have an opportunity to engage in and observe verbal and non-verbal behavioral styles which are normally not captured in most computer mediated communications devices, the nuances associated with gestures the quality of the voice and volume in email discussions chat rooms or the like with…
References
Brent Arslaner, (2012). Virtual Meetings Will Erase face-to-face. Retrieved August 21, 2012
from http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2009/01/virtual_meeting.html
Kathleen A. Begley, (2004). face-to-face Communication: Making Human Connections in a Technology Driven World. Retrieved August 21, 2012 from http://www.axzopress.com/downloads/pdf/1560526998pv.pdf
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