Social Media
Content that has been viewed by a large number of people in a relatively short time since it was posted online, as indicated by visitor or hit counts.
What is virality (or viral content)?
When the message of the source is distinguishable, but it can't be tied to an offline person.
Pseudonymity
What is phubbing?
What is deindividuation?
An example of area of research is how human workers perceive a robot teammate that looks very much like a human.
What is Human-Computer Interaction?
Calling a celebrity my "husband" though they've never actually interacted in real-life could be an example of this.
What is parasocial relationship?
A simple example of _________ is when an individual who sees themselves in a slightly taller avatar in VR begins to act more confidently than before.
What is the Proteus Effect?
Theory that describes why, given enough time, people may form rich, interpersonal connections via computer-mediated communication that match the level of in-person face-to-face communication.
What is Social Information Processing Theory?
An example of this type of group is when you join a Discord server focused on dinosaurs because you love dinosaurs. Everyone on the server loves talking about dino-facts and recent digs.
What are common-identity groups?
This extended reality (XR) system differs augmented reality (XR) in that humans are fully immersed into a completely digitally created spaces via the headsets.
What is virtual reality (VR)?
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During lecture about social media, we watched a Youtube video featuring Dr. Huberman and Berman about social media. What specific aspect about social media's impact on our society did this video focus on?
The version of their identity that is most acceptable across their various social networks
What is the lowest common denominator self?
An example of this theory is that text messaging would result in greater perceptions of closeness among users than email because it has greater mutual directionality than email.
What is Theory of Electronic Propinquity?
Under certain conditions, simply being assigned or categorized to an arbitrary group is enough to activate intergroup processes.
What is minimal group paradigm
This refers to the use of touch for communication.
What is haptics?
A feature of social media where the sender of messages is given time for selective self-representation.
What is disentrainment?
Type of anonymity that can occur when the visual cues about the message source is limited
What is physical anonymity?
Integration of the communication channels, segmentation among the communication channels, and difficulty transitioning between channels during conversations are aspects of this interpersonal framework.
What is communication interdependence perspective?
Monitoring relevant stakeholder groups' positions and attitudes about an organization, primarily through social media.
What is environmental scanning?
Approach to computer-mediated communication that suggests that society guides how a technology is adopted and used.
What is social determinism?
Phenomena where meaningfulness of a paralinguistic digital affordance (PDA) decreases as the recipient thinks that the provider did so more automatically and less deliberately.
What is the Daphnis effect?
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Name 2 additional components of the identity shift theory that can influence how much impact selective self-presentation has on an individual's self-perception or trait.
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Come up with an scenario that describes various aspects of the hyperpersonal model of communication.
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According to Cappelli & Behmeh's (2025) article, what are three challenges with hybrid work systems?
What is magnitude?