Digital Discipline: Theorizing Concertive Control in Online Communities

IF 4.7 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Theory Pub Date : 2021-09-06 DOI:10.1093/ct/qtab017

Jennifer L. Gibbs, Ronald E. Rice, Gavin Kirkwood

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Abstract

Concertive control (CC) theory has primarily been applied to traditional offline, work-based, closed membership teams. New organizational forms such as online communities have opened up additional sites in which CC processes may operate. This article makes several contributions to CC theory and research. First, it increases the applicability of CC theory by extending it from offline to online, work to non-work, and closed to open membership contexts. Second, it increases our understanding of CC processes by elaborating on three mechanisms of CC (group autonomy, group identification, and generative discipline) and how they operate differently in online work/non-work and closed/open contexts. Third, it develops propositions about how these mechanisms interact with three prominent media affordances (visibility, persistence and editability) within those contexts. Extending CC theory to online communities helps to explain individuals’ responses to normative group pressures online, which is highly relevant in our increasingly culturally and politically polarized society.

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数字学科：网络社区协同控制理论化

协调控制（CC）理论主要应用于传统的离线、基于工作的封闭成员团队。在线社区等新的组织形式开辟了更多的网站，CC流程可以在其中运行。本文对CC理论和研究做出了一些贡献。首先，它通过将CC理论从离线扩展到在线，从工作扩展到非工作，以及从封闭扩展到开放的会员环境，提高了CC理论的适用性。其次，它通过阐述CC的三种机制（群体自主性、群体认同和生成纪律），以及它们在在线工作/非工作和封闭/开放环境中的不同运作，增加了我们对CC过程的理解。第三，它提出了关于这些机制如何在这些背景下与三个突出的媒体可供性（可见性、持久性和可编辑性）相互作用的命题。将CC理论扩展到网络社区有助于解释个人对网络规范性群体压力的反应，这在我们日益文化和政治两极分化的社会中具有高度相关性。

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Communication Theory COMMUNICATION-

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9.00

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2.70%

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