Agreement and Group Attraction in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Group DiscussionsThesis • October 18th, 2016
With the advent of computer technology, it is becoming more common for us to receive messages in our personal computer from an unidentifiable source. This condition, where the sender of the message is not identifiable is defined as anonymity (Marx, 1999). According to Marx (1999), anonymity is fundamentally social, involving "an audience of at least one person" (p. 100). The issue of anonymity is exceptionally privileged in Computer-mediated communication (CMC). This is because CMC has the capacity to facilitate anonymity by creating a state where the sources of messages can withhold their personal information such as name, gender, age, race, height, or status.
Western Kentucky UniversityThesis • November 5th, 2013
With the advent of computer technology, it is becoming more common for us to receive messages in our personal computer from an unidentifiable source. This condition, where the sender of the message is not identifiable is defined as anonymity (Marx, 1999). According to Marx (1999), anonymity is fundamentally social, involving "an audience of at least one person" (p. 100). The issue of anonymity is exceptionally privileged in Computer-mediated communication (CMC). This is because CMC has the capacity to facilitate anonymity by creating a state where the sources of messages can withhold their personal information such as name, gender, age, race, height, or status.