Media and Group Cohesion: Relative Influences on Social Presence, Task Participation, and Group Consensus

By Youngjin Yoo, Maryam Alavi. MIS Q., 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

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2. J. Valacich
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6. Elizabeth White Baker
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In Social Psychology

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In Sociology and Political Science

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4. Said S. Al-gahtani
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6. Khaled Hassanein
7. Nora Bakabbey Kulbo
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Citations in the corpus

• Manipulating perceived social presence through the web interface and its impact on attitude towards online shopping (2007, background): “In this perspective, a medium is perceived to be warm if it conveys a feeling of human contact, sociability, and sensitivity (Rice and Case, 1983; Steinfield, 1986; Yoo and Alavi, 2001).”
• The acceptance and use of a virtual learning environment in China (2008, result): “However, previous studies, especially in the area of technology acceptance, have used similar sample sizes and found stable results (Cool et al., 1989; Kahai & Cooper, 2003; So & Bolloju, 2005; Venkatesh & Davis, 2000; Yoo & Alavi, 2001).”
• A Systematic Review of Social Presence: Definition, Antecedents, and Implications (2018, background): “Of the nine studies identified in Table 1 ( de Greef and Ijsselsteijn, 2001; Yoo and Alavi, 2001; Sallnäs, 2005, Study 1 & 2; Bailenson et al., 2006; Bente et al., 2008; Homer et al., 2008; de Greef, 2014; Gimpel et al., 2016) that offered a comparison between audio-only and audio-video modalities,…”
• COVID-19: fear appeal favoring purchase behavior towards personal protective equipment (2020, background): “From an emotional point of view, social presence is characterized as the ‘warmth feeling’ of the media, thus, its ability to transmit the feeling of human warmth and sensitivity through non-verbal cues (Cyr et al., 2007; Yoo & Alavi, 2001).”
• Virtual Customer Service Agents: Using Social Presence and Personalization to Shape Online Service Encounters (2014, background): “…and friendly Expertise (Holzwarth, Janiszewski, & Neumann, 2006) EXP-1: Trained 0.86 0.92 0.78 EXP-2: Experienced EXP-3: Knowledgeable Social Presence (Yoo & Alavi, 2001) SP-1: I felt a sense of human contact with the virtual agent 0.94 0.95 0.80 SP-2: I felt a sense of personalness with the…”
• Persuasive messages, popularity cohesion, and message diffusion in social media marketing (2015, background): “Communication technologies such as bulletin board systems for collecting public opinion, blogs which share personal messages, and interactive and connective social media can achieve message diffusion and popular cohesion (Karnik, Saroop, & Borkar, 2013; Yoo & Alavi, 2001).”
• Understanding social presence in text‐based online learning environments (2008, background): “Short et al. (1976) are widely credited as the first to explore social presence in depth by comparing mediated and non-mediated interactions (see Gunawardena & Zittle, 1996; Kumar & Benbasat, 2002; Rourke et al., 2001; Shin, 2002; Yoo & Alavi, 2001).”