Breaching or Building Social Boundaries? Side-Effects of Computer-Mediated Communication.

By Tom Postmes, Russell Spears, Martin Lea. 2002

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Factors affecting YouTube influencer marketing credibility: a heuristic-systematic model (2018, background): “…platform leads users to have a decreased sense of self, while experiencing a heightened sense of belonging to a group (e.g. fans of a YouTube in ﬂ uencer); therefore, the likelihood of one to conform to the identity, norms, or behaviours of the group increased (Postmes, Spears, & Lea, 1998, 2000).”
Interpersonal Communication: Theoretical Perspectives, Future Prospects (2005, unknown): “…researchers, social identity/ deindividuation theory was formulated in an attempt to explain the potential effects of increased social identity that might accrue while individuals engage in text-based CMC with a group (Postmes, Spears, & Lea, 1998; Postmes, Spears, Lea, & Reicher, 2000).”
It’s going to be okay: Measuring Access to Support in Online Communities (2018, unknown): “stereotypes and, potentially, the negative behavior that comes when treating someone as a stereotype (Kiesler et al., 1984; Lea and Spears, 1991; Postmes et al., 1998; Wang et al., 2009).”
Intentional social action in virtual communities (2002, background): “This “filtering out” elevates the importance of communication content as the community’s shaping force, allowing individual members the strategic freedom to express themselves (Postmes et al., 1998; Spears & Lea, 1994).”
Women’s experiences with general and sexual harassment in online video games: Rumination, organizational responsiveness, withdrawal, and coping strategies (2017, background): “Other users, particularly those in outgroups, are depersonalized and stereotyped, and behavioral disinhibition occurs (Postmes et al., 1998).”
Attitudes Toward Online Social Connection and Self-Disclosure as Predictors of Facebook Communication and Relational Closeness (2011, methodology): “This possibility was tested via Preacher and Hayes’s (2004) procedure for generating robust estimates of unstandardized regression weights with nonparametric bootstrapping, a technique in which “cases from the original data file are randomly selected with replacement to generate other data sets, usu”
Youth engaging in online harassment: associations with caregiver-child relationships, Internet use, and personal characteristics. (2004, background): “Some posit that this lack of direct feedback, as well as the anonymity and lack of repercussions can lead to more hostile and aggressive behaviour (Postmes & Spears, 1998; Postmes et al., 1998).”
Ongoing and Online: Children and youth's perceptions of cyber bullying (2009, background): “Schrock and Boyd (2008) emphasize that studying cyber bullying is a moving target and therefore research must attempt to keep up to this ever changing phenomenon.”
Antecedents and Consequences of Online Social Interactions (2007, background): “At the same time, it is worth noting that our emphasis on existing, real social groups complements nicely the existing communications research on the study of groups without any preexistence and prior knowledge of group members (e.g., Postmes et al., 1998; Spears & Lea, 1994; Walther, 1997).”
Competing or aiming to be average?: normification as a means of engaging digital volunteers (2014, background): “[35] have found that online communities with a strong social identity can reinforce the effect of pre-existing norms, despite participant anonymity.”
Normative and Informational Influences in Online Political Discussions (2006, background): “29–30; Turner, 1991, pp. 144–147). Turner (1982) argued for a third approach to group influence—one he labeled referent informational influence—which he saw as something of an amalgam of Deutsch and Gerard’s (1955) informational influence and notions of reference-group power to shape behavior (e.”
Identification in Face-to-Face, Hybrid, and Pure Virtual Teams: Untangling the Contradictions (2005, background): “Finally, while visible social cues often facilitate identiﬁcation (Pratt 1998), those same cues can also act as a hindrance in the process (Postmes et al. 1998).”