Social Media
Calling a celebrity my "husband" though they've never actually interacted in real-life could be an example of this.
What is parasocial relationship?
What is Pseudonymity?
When the message of the source is distinguishable, but it can't be tied to an offline person.
Spending time on the phone playing a game while eating dinner with your significant other is an example of this.
Phubbing
This term states that 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.
Haptics
Name one factor that could help social media content to become viral?
Emotions (especially negative), novelty, actors central in relational networks
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.
Proteus Effect
What is the main idea of social information processing theory?
Describes that though it may take longer than face-to-face interactions, given enough time, people may form rich, interpersonal connections via computer-mediated communication that match the level of in-person face-to-face communication.
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?
Approach to computer-mediated communication that suggests that society guides how a technology is adopted and used.
Social determinism
What is the Daphnis effect?
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 physical anonymity?
Type of anonymity that can occur when the visual cues about the message source is limited
Come up with an scenario that describes various aspects of the hyperpersonal model of communication.
Any example involving selective self-presentation, idealized perception/feedback, reinforcement of self-presentation, and the continuation of the loop
Give one example of the contact hypothesis.
Anything that relates to the idea that getting individuals to get to know each other at an interpersonal level may help reduce conflict between groups.
Finish the sentence: Individuals A and B are best friends and grab lunch together at least once a week. According to media multiplexity....
these individuals would use more channels to communicate with each other than with others they are less close to.
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Name and briefly describe 2 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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Name 3 of the 6 components of the Theory of Electronic Propinquity and how each component influences propinquity.
What is deindividuation and how does it relate to the SIDE model?
Deindividuation is the loss of awareness of one's self as an individual, often in a group. This loss of identity reduces one's concern for the self, social pressures, norms, and consequences of one's actions. This leads one to seek out and rely on a social identity.
Briefly summarize the three phases of the World Wide Web.
Web 1.0: static web (broadcast message to wide audience)
Web 2.0: social web (focus on collaboratively generating content, interactivity)
Web 3.0: semantic web (computation & algorithms to cross-apply information across systems)