TY - GEN
T1 - Impression management in high context societies
T2 - 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017
AU - Semaan, Bryan
AU - Dosono, Bryan
AU - Britton, Lauren M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank our informants for sharing their stories and their time. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under grants no. 0712876 and 0910640, the Roberta Ellen Lamb Endowed Memorial Fellowship, and the Coalition Advocating Human Security Fellowship. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or these other entities.
PY - 2017/2/25
Y1 - 2017/2/25
N2 - High context societies are defined by their strong interpersonal relationships, where upholding the shared values of the community, writ large, are of the utmost importance. That is, they prioritize collective identity over individual identity. Through a qualitative case study drawing from a set of 90 semi-structured interviews with Iraqi citizens who were living in Iraq during the 2nd Gulf War, we show how through ICT uses and appropriation, people shape, or influence, social complexities within high context societies. We found that people appropriated ICTs in a way such that they could "save face" and manage other people's impressions of themselves and, in turn, maintain a positive collective identity. We then explore the use and appropriation of ICTs for impression management in high context societies as a complex process-one that is both social and technical-introduce the notion of technological imperialism, and develop a model of face saving practices that takes collective identity into account.
AB - High context societies are defined by their strong interpersonal relationships, where upholding the shared values of the community, writ large, are of the utmost importance. That is, they prioritize collective identity over individual identity. Through a qualitative case study drawing from a set of 90 semi-structured interviews with Iraqi citizens who were living in Iraq during the 2nd Gulf War, we show how through ICT uses and appropriation, people shape, or influence, social complexities within high context societies. We found that people appropriated ICTs in a way such that they could "save face" and manage other people's impressions of themselves and, in turn, maintain a positive collective identity. We then explore the use and appropriation of ICTs for impression management in high context societies as a complex process-one that is both social and technical-introduce the notion of technological imperialism, and develop a model of face saving practices that takes collective identity into account.
KW - Appropriation
KW - Culture
KW - Ecology
KW - High context
KW - Home life
KW - Impression management
KW - Iraq
KW - Middle east
KW - Traditions
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U2 - 10.1145/2998181.2998222
DO - 10.1145/2998181.2998222
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014773618
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 712
EP - 725
BT - CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 25 February 2017 through 1 March 2017
ER -