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Comm Theory Chapter 10
"Social Information Processing" (SIP)
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Undergraduate 2
04/10/2008

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CMC
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Computer-mediated communciation
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Social Presence Theory
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says text-based messages deprive CMC-users of the sense that other people are jointly involve in the interaction
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Media Richness Theory
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CMC theory that classifies each communication according to the complexity of the messages it can handle efficiently
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Flaming
Definition
hostile language that zings its target and creates a toxic climate for relational growth on the internet
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cues filtered out
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interpretation of CMC, regarding the absence of nonverbal as the medium's permanent flaw, limiting its usefulness in developing personal relationships
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Joseph B. Walther
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communication professor at Cornell University who argues that given the opportunity for sufficient exchange of social messages and subsequent relational growth, face-to-face, and CMC are
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Social Information Processing (SIP)
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Walther's perspective on CMC: relationships grow only to the extent that parties first gain information about each other and use that information to form impressions about each other
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verbal cues
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CMC users use verbal cues to form impressions
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extended time
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CMC info is exchanged at a slower rate -- therefore it takes more time to develop intimacy than in face-to-face relationships
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anticipated future interactions
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a way of extending psychological time -- the possibility of future interaction motivates the relationship
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chronemics
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how people perceive, use, and respond to issues of time in interacting with others
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hyperpersonal
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CMC relationships more intimate than romance or friendships would be through normal physical interactions
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attribution
Definition
a perceptual process where we observe people's actions and try to figure out what the person is really like
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Martin Lea and Russell Spears
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European social psychologists who explain over-the-top identification as social-identity-deindividuation (SIDE)
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self-fulfilling prophecy
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tendency for a person's expectation of others to evoke a response from the that confirms what was anticipated
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selective self-presentation
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people who meet online have an opportunity to make and sustain an overwhelmingly positive impression
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