Hyperpersonal Model

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Hyperpersonal Model is an interpersonal communication theory that suggests that computer mediated communication can become hyperpersonal because it affords message senders a host of communicative advantages over traditional face-to-face interaction. Compared to ordinary face-to-face situations, due to the reduced number of available nonverbal cues, a hyperpersonal message sender has a greater ability to strategically develop and edit self-presentation, enabling a selective and optimized presentation of oneself to others.

[edit] See also

• Social Identification Mode of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE)
• Cues-filtered-out theory
• Social Information Processing theory

[edit] References

• Walther, J. B. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction. Communication Research, 23, 3-43.