Personality Traits in Online Communication

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-23646-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Authoritative and illuminating, this book demonstrates how we reveal the secrets of our character through the disclosures we make about ourselves in the online world. The author expertly explores whether online information about people, derived from their search patterns, personal detail disclosures and the language they use when posting text, are all related to their personalities.

The Internet era has given rise to an enormous explosion of data that is refreshed daily on a massive scale. The growth of online social network sites has created opportunities for more and more people to reveal intimate details about themselves and their lives. While some of these disclosures are consciously made, other, more subtle forms of person profiling can be produced by examining patterns in our online behavior and the language we use in our online posts. As this book will show, techniques have been developed which enable researchers to build detailed personality profiles of people without their awareness, by examining online behaviour and psycholinguistic analysis. Establishing how unlocking the full potential of ‘big data’ is dependent on having the right analytical tools that can be applied speedily and cost-effectively on a massive scale, the author also asks how powerful these methods are, and can they really be used to influence us in the way their critics fear and proponents claim.

Explaining how we reveal the secrets of our character through the disclosures we make about ourselves in the online world, this is fascinating reading for students and academics in psychology, linguistics, computer science, and related areas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gunter, Barrie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Digital Insights and Digital Fictions 2. Uncovering Personality 3. Detection of Language Idiosyncrasies 4. Finding Linguistic Indicators of Personality 5. Web Search Histories and Personality 6. Social Searching and Personality 7. Registering Away Your Identity Online 8. Insights from What You Do Online 9. Insights from What You Say Online 10. Insights from What You Say on Your Online Social Networks 11. Establishing the Known and Looking at What Might Come Next

Über Autor(innen)

Barrie Gunter is Emeritus Professor at the University of Leicester, UK. He is a psychologist by training who worked in broadcasting before becoming an academic. He has written/edited 70 books and produced several hundred other publications on media, marketing and psychology topics.