The Psychology of Online Comments

2013-10-25T15:59:00-04:00

the nastier the comments, the more polarized readers became about the contents of the article, a phenomenon they dubbed the “nasty effect.” But the nasty effect isn’t new, or unique to the Internet. Psychologists have long worried about the difference between face-to-face communication and more removed ways of talking—the letter, the telegraph, the phone. Without the traditional trappings of personal communication, like non-verbal cues, context, and tone, comments can become overly impersonal...

Manuel Castells on the rise of alternative economic cultures

2012-11-12T11:45:00-05:00

We live in a culture of not virtual reality, but real virtuality because our virtuality - meaning the internet networks - are a fundamental part of our reality. All the studies on the internet show that people who are more social on the internet are also more social face-to-face.

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The Psychology of Online Comments

Manuel Castells on the rise of alternative economic cultures