Digital Versus Face-to-Face
Communication: The Effects on Identity Processes
Presenter: Emily Asencio
Presenter Status: Faculty
Academic Year: 19-20
Semester: Spring
Department: Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies
Funding Source/Sponsor: RSCAP
Abstract:
| Identity theory is a robust theory of the self that has continued to develop over the past few decades in the field of sociological social psychology. Research from an identity theory perspective reveals much about how identities influence behavior and emotions in social situations, but little work to date has examined the relationship between identity processes and new forms of technology. Social interaction in a digitally mediated social world is still a relatively new concept that is as yet understudied theoretically and empirically in comparison to face-to-face social settings. Specifically, this study focuses on how the use of electronic devices and social media impacts people's ability to achieve identity verification, and whether negative emotions such as depression and anxiety resulting from identity non-verification are more intense in digitally mediated versus face-to-face interaction settings. |