Abstract
This investigation examined how computer-mediated communication (CMC) partners exchange personal information in initial interactions, focusing on the effects of communication channels on self-disclosure, question-asking, and uncertainty reduction. Unacquainted individuals (N = 158) met either face-to-face or via CMC. Computer-mediated interactants exhibited a greater proportion of more direct and intimate uncertainty reduction behaviors than unmediated participants did, and demonstrated significantly greater gains in attributional confidence over the course of the conversations. The use of direct strategies by mediated interactants resulted in judgments of greater conversational effectiveness by partners. Results illuminate some microstructures previously asserted but unverified within social information processing theory (Walther, 1992), and extend uncertainty reduction theory (Berger & Calabrese, 1975) to CMC interaction.
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Interpersonal communicationUncertainty reduction theoryPsychologyComputer-mediated communicationSocial psychologyFace (sociological concept)Self-disclosureInterpersonal interactionBit (key)Interpersonal relationshipSocial information processingReduction (mathematics)The InternetComputer scienceCognitionLinguistics
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Lisa Collins Tidwell,
Joseph B. Walther
(2002).
Computer-Mediated Communication Effects on Disclosure, Impressions, and Interpersonal Evaluations: Getting to Know One Another a Bit at a Time.
Human Communication Research
, 28
(3)
, 317-348.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2002.tb00811.x
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- 10.1111/j.1468-2958.2002.tb00811.x