Strategic Uses of Social Technology: An Interactive Perspective of Social Psychology

by Edited by Zachary Birchmeier , Beth Dietz-Uhler , Garold Stasser

• ISBN13: 9780521899260
• ISBN10: 0521899265
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

On an everyday basis, we communicate with one another using various technological mediums, such as text messaging, social networking tools, and electronic mail, in work, educational, and personal settings. As a consequence of the increasing frequency of use and importance of computer-supported interaction, social scientists in particular have heeded the call to understand the social processes involved in such interactions. In this volume, the editors explore how aspects of a situation interact with characteristics of a person to help explain our technologically-supported social interactions. The person-by-situation interaction perspective recognizes the powerful role of the situation and social forces on behavior, thought, and emotion, but also acknowledges the importance of person variables in explaining social interaction, including power and gender, social influence, truth and deception, ostracism, and leadership. This important study is of great relevance to modern readers, who are more and more frequently using technology to communicate with one another.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
Notes on the contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction: A social psychological analysis of computer-supported social interaction	p. 1
A Side look at computer-mediated interaction: Power and the gender divide	p. 16
Trust, deception, and identity on the internet	p. 40
An interactional approach to social influence in computer-mediated communication	p. 63
Social interaction in cyberspace: Social construction with few constraints	p. 84
Dynamics of leader emergence in online groups	p. 108
Ostracism in cyberspace: Being ignored and excluded in electronic-based interactions	p. 127
Opinion-based groups: (Racist) talk and (collective) action on the internet	p. 145
A juxtaposition of social influences: Web 2.0 and the interaction of mass, interpersonal, and peer sources online	p. 172
The virtual social world: The continually changing landscape of social interaction	p. 195
Index	p. 211
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