Social Processing Information Theory

CMC

Face-to-face vs. CMC

• Impression Formation: pieces of information gathered about someone to form a global impression of them.

Face-to-face vs. CMC (cont.)

• Verbal Cues: In CMC, verbal cues are cues based solely on linguistic content in a message.
• Extended Time: the elapsed time, is much longer because response does not have to be immediate. This causes relationships to grow at a slower rate.

Extended Time

Time & intimacy on the internet

• Anticipated future interaction: when we look forward to seeing each other
• Chronemics: how long it takes us to respond or how long we choose to respond

Hyperpersonal Perspective

• Selective Self Presentation (Sender)
• Over attribution of Similarity (Receiver)
• Communicating on your own time (Channel & Asynchronous Channel)
• Self Fulfilling Prophecy (Feedback)

What to trust?