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COM 209 Exam 2 Questions And Answers
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CMC use and relationships: RICHNESS - Answer✔The extent to which nonverbal and synchrony
of interaction are available in the medium
CMC use and relationships: Presence - Answer✔The extent to which the medium recreates a
sense of co-operation of similar space and time-feeling "there" with the other interaction
CMC use and relationships: Competence - Answer✔The extent to which the users are capable
of conveniently or expertly using the technologies
Technological affordances of SNS: objective - Answer✔type of purpose to which an SNS is put
by the user
• Instrumental Objectives: can use it to do something with meaning in your life
• Identity Objectives: allows you to communicate with others & express who you are
• Relational Objectives: lets you maintain, establish and increase intimacy with other people
Technological affordances of SNS: Valence - Answer✔internet allows you to make evaluations/
judge other people and things
Technological affordances of SNS: Surveillance - Answer✔the extent to which users use such
sites for the purpose of uncertainty reduction and ongoing awareness of the authors life
• Geopatial Activities: arrange accidental meetings with people, allows you to know where
other people are and mutual interests
• Communication Activities: what language do they speak on face book, how often they
comment & post.
Impression Management Theory - Answer✔Humans are social creatures and are always
conscious about the people who surround us and how we interact with certain people, how we
should be behaving in front of people, we have the motivation to maintain a good impression
Key Terms for Impression Management Theory - Answer✔1)FACE: the image a given actor
(Person) wants others to have of the actor
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2)POSITIVE FACE: a concern with being liked, being seen as attractive or pleasing by other
people
3)NEGATIVE FACE: concern about only ones own thoughts and how you want others to see you
4)SELF PRESENTATION: process in which you are creating/ shaping a certain face in front of
other people. Depending on your goal then you will choose what face to engage in.
Stalking - Answer✔A pattern of behaviors, which may not amount to an obvious crime, but that
collectively present a threatening context of unwanted intrusion.
Components of Stalking: - Answer✔•It is a pattern of conduct- not a single act or episode. It
occurs over multiple contexts and times
•It is explicitly unwanted
•It serves no other "Legitimates" purpose
•It is fear-inducing or threatening experience
Cyber Stalking - Answer✔threatening behavior or unwanted advances at another using the
internet and other forms of online electronic communications technology.
4 Types of Cyber Stalkers - Answer✔1. Vindictive Cyber Stalkers
2. Composed Cyber Stalkers
3. Intimate Cyber Stalkers (Ex-Intimate), (Infatuates)
4. Collective Cyber Stalkers
Vindictive cyberstalking - Answer✔both online and offline stalking, using threatening
communication
Composed cyberstalkers - Answer✔uses media primarily to bother the other person, not brave
enough to do it offline, only online so they can hide themselves
Intimate cyberstalkers - Answer✔want to become more intimate with who they are stalking
-Ex intimate: you had a relationship with that person but you want to re new the relationship
-Infatuates not trying to re new a relationship, they've never met who they are stalking,
fanaticizing over someone
Collective cyberstalkers - Answer✔Group based behavior, purpose is to discredit an
organization, don't target an individual they target a group.
Cyber Bullying - Answer✔any behavior preformed through electronic or digital media by
individuals/groups that repeatedly communicates hostile or aggressive messages intended to
inflict harm or discomfort on others
Traditional Bullying and cyber bulling - Answer✔oAnonymity
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COM 209 Exam 2 Questions And Answers
|Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
CMC use and relationships: RICHNESS - Answer✔The extent to which nonverbal and synchrony
of interaction are available in the medium
CMC use and relationships: Presence - Answer✔The extent to which the medium recreates a
sense of co-operation of similar space and time-feeling "there" with the other interaction
CMC use and relationships: Competence - Answer✔The extent to which the users are capable
of conveniently or expertly using the technologies
Technological affordances of SNS: objective - Answer✔type of purpose to which an SNS is put
by the user
• Instrumental Objectives: can use it to do something with meaning in your life
• Identity Objectives: allows you to communicate with others & express who you are
• Relational Objectives: lets you maintain, establish and increase intimacy with other people
Technological affordances of SNS: Valence - Answer✔internet allows you to make evaluations/
judge other people and things
Technological affordances of SNS: Surveillance - Answer✔the extent to which users use such
sites for the purpose of uncertainty reduction and ongoing awareness of the authors life
• Geopatial Activities: arrange accidental meetings with people, allows you to know where
other people are and mutual interests
• Communication Activities: what language do they speak on face book, how often they
comment & post.
Impression Management Theory - Answer✔Humans are social creatures and are always
conscious about the people who surround us and how we interact with certain people, how we
should be behaving in front of people, we have the motivation to maintain a good impression
Key Terms for Impression Management Theory - Answer✔1)FACE: the image a given actor
(Person) wants others to have of the actor
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2)POSITIVE FACE: a concern with being liked, being seen as attractive or pleasing by other
people
3)NEGATIVE FACE: concern about only ones own thoughts and how you want others to see you
4)SELF PRESENTATION: process in which you are creating/ shaping a certain face in front of
other people. Depending on your goal then you will choose what face to engage in.
Stalking - Answer✔A pattern of behaviors, which may not amount to an obvious crime, but that
collectively present a threatening context of unwanted intrusion.
Components of Stalking: - Answer✔•It is a pattern of conduct- not a single act or episode. It
occurs over multiple contexts and times
•It is explicitly unwanted
•It serves no other "Legitimates" purpose
•It is fear-inducing or threatening experience
Cyber Stalking - Answer✔threatening behavior or unwanted advances at another using the
internet and other forms of online electronic communications technology.
4 Types of Cyber Stalkers - Answer✔1. Vindictive Cyber Stalkers
2. Composed Cyber Stalkers
3. Intimate Cyber Stalkers (Ex-Intimate), (Infatuates)
4. Collective Cyber Stalkers
Vindictive cyberstalking - Answer✔both online and offline stalking, using threatening
communication
Composed cyberstalkers - Answer✔uses media primarily to bother the other person, not brave
enough to do it offline, only online so they can hide themselves
Intimate cyberstalkers - Answer✔want to become more intimate with who they are stalking
-Ex intimate: you had a relationship with that person but you want to re new the relationship
-Infatuates not trying to re new a relationship, they've never met who they are stalking,
fanaticizing over someone
Collective cyberstalkers - Answer✔Group based behavior, purpose is to discredit an
organization, don't target an individual they target a group.
Cyber Bullying - Answer✔any behavior preformed through electronic or digital media by
individuals/groups that repeatedly communicates hostile or aggressive messages intended to
inflict harm or discomfort on others
Traditional Bullying and cyber bulling - Answer✔oAnonymity
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