Carmina Rodriguez Hidalgo

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez · School of Communication and Journalism

This study investigates the interplay between online and face-to-face (FtF) feedback on stress during an important life event. We present data on a two-month, six-wave longitudinal study of 468 Chilean adolescents across three important stages of a competitive national university selection test (Prueba de Selección Universitaria [PSU]) to assess lo...

The term affordance has been inconsistently applied both in robotics and communication. While the robotics perspective is mostly object-based, the communication science view is commonly user-based. In an attempt to bring the two perspectives together, this theoretical paper argues that social robots present new social communicative affordances emer...

Despite their rapid development, social robots still face difficulties for achieving smooth communication with humans, particularly when we consider interactions within an emotional context. To contribute in this search for meaningful human-robot interaction (HRI), we present an interaction framework focusing on children, that introduces a multimod...

Is sharing emotions on social media bad for your emotions? This question has raised concern in parents, educators, the media, and the general public. This dissertation proposes that the academic field and the current societal debate may benefit from asking a more specific question: ‘what constitutes online emotion sharing, and which underlying mech...

Textual paralanguage cues (TPC) have been signaled as effective emotion transmitters online. Though several studies have investigated their properties and occurrence, there remains a gap concerning their communicative impact within specific psychological processes, such as the social sharing of emotion (SSE, Rimé, 2009). This study content-analyzed...

This article takes a critical look to the concept of ‘oversharing’ in the popular Social networking site (SNS) Facebook. Instead of considering it an excessive sharing of trivial information (Nicholas, 2013, p. 52; Joinson et al., 2011, p. 41), this study’s conceptualization of oversharing takes both the depth and reach of users’ disclosures in the...

This article takes a critical look to the concept of ‘oversharing’ in the popular Social networking site (SNS) Facebook. Instead of considering it an excessive sharing of trivial information (Nicholas, 2013, p. 52; Joinson et al., 2011, p. 41), this study’s conceptualization of oversharing takes both the depth and reach of users’ disclosures in the...