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SIP
Comm Theory - Social Information Processing (SIP)
Term | Definition |
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CMC | computer-mediated communication, often referring to text-based messages, which filter out nonverbal cues |
social presence theory | suggests that CMC deprives users of the sense that another actual person is involved in the interaction |
media richness theory | purports that CMC band-width is too narrow to convey rich relational messages |
cues filtered out | interpretation of CMC that regards lack of nonverbal cues as a fatal flaw for using the medium for relational development |
impression formation | the composite mental image one person forms of another |
multimodal | using multiple media to maintain a relationship |
anticipated future interaction | a way of extending psychological time; the likelihood of future interaction motivates CMC users to develop a relationship |
chronemics | the study of people's systematic handling of time in their interaction with others |
hyperpersonal perspective | the claim that CMC relationships are often more intimate than those developed when partners are physically together |
selective self-presentation | an online positive portrayal without fear of contradiction, which enables people to create an overwhelmingly favorable impression |
asynchronous channel | a nonsimultaneous medium of communication that each individual can use when he or she desires |
self-fulfilling prophecy | the tendency for a person's expectation of others to evoke a response from them that confirms what was originally anticipated |
warranting value | reason to believe that information is accurate, typically because the target of the information cannot manipulate it |