Cyber Social Interactions: Information Behavior in Between Social and Parasocial Interactions
Participants in real-time online sessions, be it (business) meetings, virtual school lessons, or social live streams, all engage in cyber social interactions. Unlike parasocial interactions, cyber social interactions are characterized by reciprocity and temporal proximity. In contrast to social inte...
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| author | Wolfgang G. Stock Kaja J. Fietkiewicz Katrin Scheibe Franziska Zimmer |
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| description | Participants in real-time online sessions, be it (business) meetings, virtual school lessons, or social live streams, all engage in cyber social interactions. Unlike parasocial interactions, cyber social interactions are characterized by reciprocity and temporal proximity. In contrast to social interactions, they lack spatial proximity and bodily contact. This is a fairly new concept in information science that rose from technological advances and unprecedented circumstances (e.g., the rise of digital economy and knowledge workers being able to work remotely or, more recently, global lockdowns and contact restrictions). As a result, the past ways of working and socializing were transformed by making them, in some cases predominantly, virtual. Regarding the example of social live streaming we exhibit the importance of cyber social interactions for information behavior research. This conceptual article is a plea for information science to engage more in human-human online relations and interactions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-022c469f301143918a0ab6237e943f162022-12-29T05:45:00ZengKorea Institute of Science and Technology InformationJournal of Information Science Theory and Practice2287-90992287-45772022-09-0110310.1633/JISTaP.2022.10.3.2JISTaP.2022.10.3.2Cyber Social Interactions: Information Behavior in Between Social and Parasocial InteractionsWolfgang G. Stock0Kaja J. Fietkiewicz1Katrin Scheibe2Franziska Zimmer3Department of Information Science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany E-mail: wolfgang.stock@hhu.deKaja J. Fietkiewicz, Düsseldorf, Germany E-mail: kaja@fietkiewicz.comDepartment of Information Science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany E-mail: katrin.scheibe@hhu.deDepartment of Information Science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany E-mail: franziska.zimmer@hhu.deParticipants in real-time online sessions, be it (business) meetings, virtual school lessons, or social live streams, all engage in cyber social interactions. Unlike parasocial interactions, cyber social interactions are characterized by reciprocity and temporal proximity. In contrast to social interactions, they lack spatial proximity and bodily contact. This is a fairly new concept in information science that rose from technological advances and unprecedented circumstances (e.g., the rise of digital economy and knowledge workers being able to work remotely or, more recently, global lockdowns and contact restrictions). As a result, the past ways of working and socializing were transformed by making them, in some cases predominantly, virtual. Regarding the example of social live streaming we exhibit the importance of cyber social interactions for information behavior research. This conceptual article is a plea for information science to engage more in human-human online relations and interactions.https://data.doi.or.kr/10.1633/JISTaP.2022.10.3.2information behaviorsocial live streamingcyber social interactioncyber social relationsocial interactionparasocial interaction |
| spellingShingle | Wolfgang G. Stock Kaja J. Fietkiewicz Katrin Scheibe Franziska Zimmer Cyber Social Interactions: Information Behavior in Between Social and Parasocial Interactions Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice information behavior social live streaming cyber social interaction cyber social relation social interaction parasocial interaction |
| title | Cyber Social Interactions: Information Behavior in Between Social and Parasocial Interactions |
| title_full | Cyber Social Interactions: Information Behavior in Between Social and Parasocial Interactions |
| title_fullStr | Cyber Social Interactions: Information Behavior in Between Social and Parasocial Interactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cyber Social Interactions: Information Behavior in Between Social and Parasocial Interactions |
| title_short | Cyber Social Interactions: Information Behavior in Between Social and Parasocial Interactions |
| title_sort | cyber social interactions information behavior in between social and parasocial interactions |
| topic | information behavior social live streaming cyber social interaction cyber social relation social interaction parasocial interaction |
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