2. Intrapersonal Communication as Cognitive Collaboration Chapter 7 Shedletsky & Aitken

3. Intrapersonal Communication and Cognitive Collaboration 4 Intrapersonal Communication –Mental processes associated with meaning, a mental dialogue; –Assigning meaning to stimuli and producing meaningful stimuli, verbal or nonverbal; 4 Cognitive Collaboration –Jointly constructed ideas, dialogue with another about meaning;

4. Model of Intrapersonal Communication

5. The Intrapersonal Model 4 Think of the model as representing you; 4 Picture stimuli coming into your receptors (e.g., hearing, sight) from the Internet: 4 Picture the stimuli you send as expressed through your effectors (hands, speech) and mediated by the computer:

6. Information, Meaning, & Communication 4 Information as one level or type of meaning, akin to literal meaning; 4 Additional levels of meaning include social meaning, implied meaning, inferred meaning, and more; 4 Communication includes all levels of meaning;

7. The Computer as an Intensifier 4 Communication on the computer intensifies the intrapersonal aspects of communication; 4 It facilitates making us more aware of our mental processing of stimuli; 4 We need to put greater effort into thinking about what something means and hence we become more aware of our processing; 4 We begin to recognize that our inner world and our outer world are closely tied together;

8. Inner/Outer Speech 4 Inner speech is communication to yourself, internal; 4 Outer speech is communication with another, external; 4 Without face-to-face cues, you are required to work harder to think about the communication event; 4 You are driven further inside to inner speech; 4 Hence, email on the Internet is an intensified cognitive event, engaging the outside and the inside; 4 The communication model adopted here is highly interactive (slide 3); 4 In spite of an intrapersonal model, the event remains focused on social action; 4 Communication on the Internet is a mediated symbolic process;

9. Essential Features of Communication on the Internet 4 Mediation or negotiation between people which relies on cognitive representation of common ground; 4 Communication or reaching common understanding through interplay; 4 Cultural mediational artifacts or the cultural information that helps in interpretation; 4 Context or the situation, environment, situated meaning, with physical context reduced in Internet communication; 4 Mind or the cognitive processing of stimuli, which, again, is intensified in Internet communication;

10. The Self and the Internet 4 The computer as a source of identity; 4 Mediated-intrapersonal communication:Writing to the self; 4 The computer as the second self;

11. Role-Playing Identity 4 People engage in high levels of self disclosure on the Internet; 4 Knowing the identity of others is central to communication, yet on the Internet identity is ambiguous; 4 The relationship of the self (including the body), identity, and online interaction is complicated;

12. Age 4 We hear many warnings about the dangers of the Internet for children; 4 There are also benefits of the Internet for children: to access information, talk to people, play, and collaborate; 4 The Internet as a refuge;

13. Age 4 The Internet is an important tool for older adults; 4 It provides mental stimulation, connection to others, valuable information; 4 A way to feel apart of the times;

14. Gender 4 Though women have not been associated with technology, things are different with the Internet; 4 Some research suggests that women use email more than men and have less stereotypical attitudes toward the Internet than men; 4 Both women and men are using the Internet to communicate, though they may display different roles in online discussion;