Personal Anecdote on how online interactions fulfill your needs.
How does online interaction fulfill your needs?
1) Affiliation needs (needs for close relationship)
2) Self-affimation (Toma & Hancock, 2013: Self-affirmation underlies Facebook use)
* Why do you think fulfilling these needs is important? Describe how you develop the desire for affiliation and self-affirmation.
* How do you fulfill these needs? Describe your experience / strategy / observations, etc. Analyze your online activities in terms of your desire + efforts to gratify them.
Concepts to be discussed:
– Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
– Self-affirmation Theory (Steele, 1988)
– Media Determinism
– Social Presence
– Self-awareness, self-concept, self-esteem
– Alter ego – The Proteus Study (Yee & Bailenson, 2007), Identity Shift (Gonzales & Hancock, 2008)
– Rich Media
– Impression Formation – limited compared to face to face -> intensified influence of available information, Goffman impression management
– Self-penetration theory, self-closure, entailed risks of disclosing self
– Anonymity of online interactions
– Internet Paradox (Kraut, 1998), Internet Paradox Revisited (Kraut, 2002), The Facebook
Paths to Happiness (Kim & Lee , 2011)
– Virtual Community (Rheingold, 1993)
– Knowledge Gap created by the Internet (Tichenor, Donohue, & Olien, 1970)
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