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Social presence in distributed group environments: The role of social identity

Rogers, P. & Lea, M. (2005). Social presence in distributed group environments: The role of social identity. Behaviour & Information Technology, 24,151-158.

Filed Under: Collaboration and groupwork, Journal Articles, Video communication

social presence on the Internet a social identity account

This paper argues that to achieve social presence in a distributed environment, it is not necessary to emulate face-to-face conditions of increased cues to the interpersonal. Rather, it is argued, that a sense of belongingness to the group, or perceptual immersion in the group, can be realised through the creation of a shared social identity between group members. From this perspective, social presence is a function of the cognitive representation of the group by group members and not the ... Continue Reading

Last updated on April 29, 2016 by Dr. Martin Lea Tagged With: Behaviour Information Technology, collaborative learning, CSCL, distributed teams, SIDE, social identity, social presence, video conferencing

Social Psychology of the Internet

Lea, M. & Spears, R. (2003). Social Psychology of the Internet. In K. Christensen & D. Levinson (Eds.) Sage Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. (pp. 779-783). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Filed Under: Books, Computer-Mediated Communication Theory, Contributed chapters

Social psychology has a long history of researching the effects of communication technologies, such as the telephone and television, on individuals and groups. Social psychological research on the Internet has focused predominantly on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC), such as e-mail, bulletin boards, newsgroups, conferencing, and chat. These have been compared both theoretically and empirically with face-to-face communication or with some other standard that controls for certain ... Continue Reading

Last updated on May 13, 2019 by Dr. Martin Lea Tagged With: anonymity, audio conferencing, bandwidth, communication efficiency, community, decision-making, deindividuation, gender, groups, paralanguage, personal relationships, SIDE Model, social identity, Social influence, social information processing, social presence, video conferencing

Facing the future: Emotion communication and the presence of others in video communications

Manstead, A.S.R., Lea, M. & Goh, J. (2011). Facing the future: Emotion communication and the presence of others in the age of video telephony. In Arvid Kappas (Ed.) Face-to-face communication over the Internet: Issues, research, challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 144-175).

Filed Under: Books, Contributed chapters, Emotion communication, Video communication

Video-mediated communication is becoming a ubiquitous feature of everyday life. This chapter considers the differences between face-to-face and video-mediated communication in terms of co-presence and considers the implications for the communication of emotion, self-disclosure, and relationship rapport. Following initial consideration of the concepts of physical presence and social presence, we describe recent studies of the effect of presence on the facial communication of emotion. We then ... Continue Reading

Last updated on October 15, 2019 by Dr. Martin Lea Tagged With: anonymity, emotion, social identity, social presence, video conferencing, visibility

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