Abstract
Chronemic research explores the involvement of time-related messages in communication, and has shown that time is an important component of the message in both traditional and online communication. Social information processing (SIP) theory posits that online communicators exchange social information through chronemic cues. This study points to a gap in SIP theory research, and proceeds to close the gap by demonstrating that changes in socially important attributes are reflected in measurable chronemic changes. A two-person social dilemma online game is used to demonstrate that changes in a simple chronemic variable, interpost pause, reflect differences in the players’ personality (level of extraversion), as well as differences in trust within the dyad. These findings support SIP theory by showing how online chronemics provide cues to important personal and situational information.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1260-1269 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Computers in Human Behavior |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 May 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wish to thank Zwi Kalman for his assistance with the data analysis. Previous versions of this manuscript were presented at MCIS 2010 and ICA 2012. We wish to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback. This work was funded, in part, by National Science Foundation grants #0705901 and #0953943.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords
- Chronemics
- Computer-mediated communication
- Social information processing