Competence, Presence, Trust, and Hyperpersonal-ness: Dissolving the Boundary between Digital and Physical Life

B. C. Bouchillon

doi:10.5771/9781793622143

Summary

As the U.S. population has increasingly withdrawn into itself, Competence, Presence, Trust, and Hyperpersonal-ness considers the importance of communication technology for helping citizens become socially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.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2213-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2214-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 132
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Social Competence and Social Capital No access
  2. Theoretical Underpinnings No access
  3. References No access
2. 1. The Phases of Computer-Mediated Communication No access
  2. Confirming What We Think We Know No access
  3. Reinforcing Competence No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
  6. 1. Measures No access
  7. 1. Testing Assumptions No access
  8. 1. Model Fit No access
  9. 1. Principal Component Analysis No access
3. 1. Sociability and CMC Competence for Social Presence No access
  2. Social Presence for Social Learning No access
  3. Addressing an Older Problem No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
  6. Appendix E No access
  7. Appendix F No access
  8. Appendix G No access
4. 1. Skill in Particular, and What about the Rich Getting Richer No access
  2. Social Transformance Defined No access
  3. References No access
  4. Appendix H No access
1. 1. The Declining Value of Social Presence for Trusting with Age No access
  2. Enabling Contact No access
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  4. Appendix I No access
  5. Appendix J No access
  6. Appendix K No access
2. 1. Testing Mediation No access
  2. Moderated Mediation No access
  3. Converting Competence into Social Capital No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
  6. Appendix L No access
  7. Appendix M No access
3. 1. Social Transformance for Trusting in Isolation No access
  2. Moderated Mediation in Isolation No access
  3. Presence for Trusting in Isolation No access
  4. A State of Hyperpersonal-ness No access
  5. Notes No access
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  7. Appendix N No access
  8. Appendix O No access
  9. Appendix P No access
4. 1. References No access
  2. Appendix Q No access
Index No access Pages 125 - 130
About the Author No access Pages 131 - 132