Comm Theory Exam

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Hyperpersonal Relationships

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Relationships that are more intimate than romances or friendships would be if partners were physically together

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Sender: selective self-presentation

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through selective self presentation, people who meet online have an opportunity to make and sustain an overwhelmingly positive impression. As the relationship develops they can carefully edit the breadth and depth of their self disclosure to conform to their cyberimage they wish to project

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Reciever: Overattribution of similarity

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Attribution is a perceptual process whereby we observe what people do and then try to figure out what they're really like. In the absence of other cues, we are likely to overattribute the information we have and create an idealized image of the sender. Martin Lea and Russell Spears describe this identification as SIDE-social -identity-deindividuation.
1. users meet around a common interest
2. in the absense of contrasting cues, they develop an exaggerated sense of similarity, and group solidarity

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Channel: Communicating on your own time

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Walther refers to CMC as an asynchronous channel of communication, meaning that parties can use it nonsimultaneously.
A benefit is the ability to plan, contemplate, and edit one's comments more than is possible in spontaneous, simultaneous talk

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Feedback: Self-fulfilling prophecy

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A self-fulfilling prophecy is the tendancy for a person's expectation of others to evoke a response from them thatr confirms what was anticipated.
Self-fulfilling prophecy is triggered when the hyperpositive image is intentionally or inadvertently fed back to the other person, creating a CMC equivalent of the looking glass self

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Factors that influnece intimacy via CMC

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Anticipated future interaction: it's a way of extending psychological time
Chronemics: the label that nonverbal researchers use to describe how people percieve, use, and respond to issues of time in their interaction with others. time is the obe nonverbal cue that's not fitlered out in CMC

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Selective self presentation

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An online positive portrayal without fear of contradiction, which enables people to create an overwhelmingly favorable impression. They can write about their most attractive traits, accomplishments, thoghts, and actions without fear of contradiction from their physical appearance, inconsistent actions, or the objections of a third party who knows their dark side