Category: CSCW
Commentary2: In the special edition on CSCW & Groupware.
        Republished in Greenberg, 1991.
Abstract: Technology changes the way people within a group
        behave. Lea and Spears discuss how computer-mediated
        communication affects deindividuation, the anonymity
        and loss of identity that occurs when people are
        submerged in a group. If deindividuation does exist,
        we would expect the social norms and constraints of
        people's behaviour to be weakened, which would have
        serious consequences on how decisions made by the
        group should be interpreted. The authors question
        past findings on how electronic communication
        changes the group's psychological states, and then
        present their own study and alternate view of the
        role of deindividuation.
Number: 2
Bibtype: Article
Booktitle: International Journal of Man Machine Studies
Author: M. Lea
        R. Spears
Pages: 283-302
Title: Computer-mediated communication, deindividuation and
        group decision making
Note: decision support, evaluation
Year: 1991
Volume: 34