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Publications (4)


Considering the Interactions: The Effects of the Internet on Self and Society
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January 2012

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K.Y.A. McKenna

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This chapter reviews several studies on the mechanisms though which computermediated communication influences the development of social relationships. Experiments in which participants are randomly assigned to communication either over the computer or through another modality, have the advantage of unravelling the causal direction in the link between communication modality and strength of social relationships. The chapter shows that students who are assigned to meet in an Internet chat room grow to like each other more than those who first meet face to face. Whether the very-short-term interactions that participants have in the laboratory experiment can be generalized to the longer-term development of social relationships, however, is an open question. The chapter concludes that there are few unqualified effects of using the Internet. Although Internet communication can have transformational effects, these depend on individual differences in personality and motivations, and on the nature of the online groups to which they become attached.


Employee job attitudes and organizational characteristics as predictors of cyberloafing

November 2011

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Computers in Human Behavior

Cyberloafing is the personal use of the Internet by employees while at work. The purpose of this study is to examine whether employee job attitudes, organizational characteristics, attitudes towards cyberloafing, and other non-Internet loafing behaviors serve as antecedents to cyberloafing behaviors. We hypothesize that the employee job attitudes of job involvement and intrinsic involvement are related to cyberloafing. In addition, we hypothesize that organizational characteristics including the perceived cyberloafing of one’s coworkers and managerial support for internet usage are related to cyberloafing. We also hypothesize that attitudes towards cyberloafing and the extent to which employees participate in non-Internet loafing behaviors (e.g., talking with coworkers, running personal errands) will both be related to cyberloafing. One hundred and forty-three working professional from a variety of industries were surveyed regarding their Internet usage at work. As hypothesized, the employee job attitudes of job involvement and intrinsic involvement were negatively related to cyberloafing. Also as predicted, the organizational characteristics of the perceived cyberloafing of one’s coworkers and managerial support for internet usage were positively related to cyberloafing. Finally, results showed that attitudes towards cyberloafing and participation in non-Internet loafing behaviors were positively related to cyberloafing. Implications for both organizations and employees are discussed.



Citations (4)


... While online communication helps people communicate over long distances in real-time, the effect is somewhat different from face-to-face communication (Hassell & Cotton, 2017). For example, compared with face-to-face communication, individuals engaging in online communication have lower liking and ability evaluation of each other (Baker et al., 2020), take more time to communicate and with lower efficiency (Baltes et al., 2002), and their anxiety, shyness, and discomfort is reduced (McKenna & Seidman, 2005). ...

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A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation
Social identity and the self: Getting connected online
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  • January 2005

... The fact of self-disclosure being encouraged mainly via text or voice is explained by the online disinhibition effect [52]. Disinhibitory processes have been theorized to be related to de-individuation [35,101], the emergence of the "true self" [12,84], and several situational factors that include anonymity [78], visual anonymity (invisibility) [53], neutralization of status [20], and lack of eye contact [117,53]. Some studies have applied [31,57,66,106] or extended [32,125,42] the risk-reward (or riskbenefit) trade-off theory 2 -which is based on the concept of behavioral economics-to examine the decision-making mechanism of information disclosure by users in text-based social media. ...

You, me, and we: Interpersonal processes in electronic groups
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  • January 2005

... Although online communities have been well studied, studies of self in those communities are still missing (Belk 2013). In virtual communities, there appears another concept as grouplevel identity (McKenna and Seigman 2006). It has been suggested that individual identity becomes anonymous in virtual consumption communities (McKenna and Seigman 2006). ...

Considering the Interactions: The Effects of the Internet on Self and Society
  • Citing Article
  • January 2012

... Moreover, senior employees may also enjoy more intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, such as recognition, satisfaction, and pay, which increase their commitment and engagement to their work (Liberman et al., 2011). Thus, we hypothesize that position in the organization is negatively associated with cyberloafing behavior. ...

Employee job attitudes and organizational characteristics as predictors of cyberloafing
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  • November 2011

Computers in Human Behavior