Journal article
Internet identifiability and beyond: a model of the effects of identifiability on communicative behavior
Group Dynamics, Vol.6(1), pp.17-26
2002
Abstract
K. Douglas and C. McGarty (2001) demonstrated that being identifiable to an in-group audience in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) setting leads people to describe anonymous out-group targets in more abstract or stereotypical ways. On the basis of these findings and the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE; S. Reicher, R. Spears, & T. Postmes, 1995), the authors aimed to test a model of the effects of identifiability on communicative behavior in and beyond CMC. Participants in 3 studies, 1 CMC and 2 pen and paper, were asked to write responses to controversial messages. In all 3 studies, communicators who were identifiable to an in-group audience used more stereotypical language to describe anonymous out-group targets. Studies 2 and 3 suggested that rather than being strategic, this may result from more subtle or implicit communicative processes.
Details
- Title
- Internet identifiability and beyond: a model of the effects of identifiability on communicative behavior
- Authors/Creators
- K.M. Douglas (Author/Creator)C. McGarty (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Group Dynamics, Vol.6(1), pp.17-26
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Identifiers
- 991005542831007891
- Copyright
- Educational Publishing Foundation
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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