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  <Title>THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION IN FACE TO FACE VS. COMPUTERIZED CONFERENCES; A CONTROTT.~n EXPERIMENT USING BALES INTERACTION PROCESS ANALYSIS</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="76" end_page="76" type="concl">
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CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Our investigation confirms the hypothesia that there are some signiflcan~ differences in the group communication process between face to face and computer mediated discussions. Such differences seem ~o be associated with other characteristics of the medium, such as the greater tendency for minorltY= opinions to be maintained, rather than a total group consensus emerginK, in a fuller analysis (Hiltz, Johnson, Arono~C/ch and Turoff, 1980) we show that the observed differences in interaction profiles are highly correlated w~h the abillty of a group to reach consensus and wirer the quali~y of group decision reached.  The pooled design yields a significant difference he,teen the FTF and CC conditions. The CC conditions show a greater percent .of their cn-~ents in ~he category of shows solidarity.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  The nested design yields a significant difference between the FTF and CC Conditions. The FTF conditions show a greater percent of their comments in category 3Agrees. null</Paragraph>
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