Title: | An Application of the Socioegocentric Model to Information-Sharing Discussions: In Search of Group-Level Communication Influences; |
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Authors and Corporations: | , |
In: | Communication Research, 38, 2011, 3, p. 356-375 |
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SAGE Publications
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 356-375 |
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ISSN: |
0093-6502
1552-3810 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0093650210377195 |
published in: | Communication Research |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | |
Collection: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> Hewes’s socioegocentric model is applied to discussion data from an information-sharing task. The primary question is whether discussion data display psychological (individual-level) or interactional (group-level) associations among contributions. Two studies are described. The first used a card sort task to group the 42 items from the choose-the-best-candidate task. The second study used the groupings from the first task to code information-based contributions to discussion. Results indicated that participants reliably group the items into valence-based categories and that there were valence-based associations between items contributed to discussion. However, the associations were at the individual level of analysis—there were no group-level effects for information sharing. However, other features of the discussions did have group-level effects, and we argue for a better understanding of information sharing in terms of the comments that frame information-based contributions to interaction. </jats:p> |