Online intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: A cross sectional and a longitudinal study of Greeks and Germans interacting on Twitter and Facebook

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Eleni Kioumi, Antonis Gardikiotis
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Abstract The current study examined social networking sites, specifically Twitter and Facebook, as spaces for intergroup communication and contact between members of two national groups, Germans and Greeks, during the turbulent times of the Greek economic crisis. A cross-sectional study on Twitter and a longitudinal study on Facebook were conducted. We examined how social psychological variables (such as prior and extended contact, friendship, intergroup anxiety, national identification) and variables specific to the communication context (such as perceived quality of contact, vicarious contact quality, perceived anonymity, self-disclosure) relate to intergroup attitudes. Both social psychological and communication-relevant variables statistically significantly and independently predicted intergroup attitudes. Moreover, the longitudinal study showed that online contact improved intergroup attitudes and reduced intergroup anxiety. Findings suggest that intergroup contact via social networking sites can have positive effects on intergroup attitudes and that both social psychological and communication-related variables are important in understanding these effects.
在线群体间接触和群体间态度:对希腊人和德国人在推特和脸书上互动的横向和纵向研究
摘要当前的研究考察了社交网站,特别是推特和脸书,在希腊经济危机的动荡时期,作为德国和希腊两个民族群体成员之间群体间交流和联系的空间。在Twitter上进行了一项横断面研究,在Facebook上进行了纵向研究。我们研究了社会心理变量(如先前和长期接触、友谊、群体间焦虑、民族认同)和特定于沟通环境的变量(如感知的接触质量、替代性接触质量、感知的匿名性、自我揭露)与群体间态度的关系。社会心理和沟通相关变量都在统计学上显著且独立地预测了群体间的态度。此外,纵向研究表明,在线接触改善了群体间的态度,减少了群体间焦虑。研究结果表明,通过社交网站进行的群体间接触可以对群体间态度产生积极影响,社会心理和沟通相关变量对理解这些影响都很重要。
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Psychology of Language and Communication
Psychology of Language and Communication Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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