Why member portraits can undermine participation

  • Authors:
  • Ulrike Cress

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tuebingen/ Germany

  • Venue:
  • CSCL '05 Proceedings of th 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years!
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

One possible way to support social awareness in virtual collaborative environments is to provide member portraits. Based on the SIDE-Model (Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effect) it is argued that these portraits can have ambivalent effects for people who act according to the mode of personal identity and for people who act according to the mode of social identity. An experiment providing an information-exchange dilemma task confirmed these expectations.