B. C. Bouchillon

Competence, Presence, Trust, and Hyperpersonal-ness (eBook, PDF)

Dissolving the Boundary between Digital and Physical Life

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As the U.S. population has increasingly withdrawn into itself, Competence, Presence, Trust, and Hyperpersonal-ness considers the importance of communication technology for helping citizens become socially proficient in ways that transcend digital and physical environments. Experiencing computer-based social platforms as realistic and intimate allows networked social competence to add to interpersonal competence, Bouchillon argues. Trust is shown to benefit, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, he demonstrates that socially distanced individuals replicated their interpersonal lives using technology, and increased their social competence by doing so. Results suggest that society has reached the moment of hyperpersonal-ness, with computer-based social capabilities and feelings of presence being used to develop interpersonal competence and social capital, even in seclusion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978782518
• Artikelnr.: 74846213

Autorenporträt

Brandon Bouchillon is assistant professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Part I: Becoming Socially Competent
Chapter 1: More Optimistic Thinking about Social Technology
Chapter 2: Exchanging the Forms of Competence
Chapter 3: The Reciprocating Value of Social Presence
Chapter 4: Transforming Computer-mediated Competence
Part II: Restoring Social Trust
Chapter 5: Competence and Presence for Trusting
Chapter 6: Social Transformance for Trusting
Chapter 7: Competence, Presence, and Trust during COVID-19
Chapter 8: The New Pragmatism
About the Author