CMC OF MAAM ELLE

• suggesting that the information we receive first has a strong influence on our overall impression.

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• allowed computer

  networks from around the globe to network with each other,

  giving individuals access to an incredible wealth of

  information.

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• rejects

  those aspects of media richness

  (and social presence) theory

  that argue that certain

  properties of media exclusively

  determine their expressive

  capabilities and their utility in

  interpersonal (and other)

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• offers an antidote to the

  inconsistencies of media

  richness research in a sense.

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• The model follows four common

  components of the

  communication process to

  address how CMC may affect

  cognitive and communication

  processes relating to message

  construction and reception:

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is a pervasive and real problem on the Internet (P. Davis, 2002).

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• The theory seeks to explain how,

  with time, CMC users are able to

  accrue impressions of and rela-

  tions with others online, and

  these relations achieve the level

  of development that is expected

  through off-line communication.

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• Donath (1999) was the first to

  suggest a theoretical basis

  underlying the skepticism CMC

  users often hold about the

  legitimacy of others’ online self-

  presentation and how CMC

  facilitates such deception.

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• The social identity model of

  deindividuation effects, or SIDE

  model, has had an interesting

  evolution in the literature.

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• used casually in the literature to

  signify multimodal or greater-

  bandwidth media, that is,

  communication media that

  support multiple verbal and

  nonverbal cue systems.

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