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1400

Overview

Joseph B. Walther is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Social Sciences and Computer Science, with focused work in subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Social Psychology, and Human-Computer Interaction.

The main topics in their research include Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Social Media and Politics, Digital Communication and Language, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, and Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression.

Joseph B. Walther has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Communication Research
  • Journal of Language and Social Psychology
  • Language Sciences
  • Current Opinion in Psychology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Walther cover a range of topics related to communication and social media:

  • Language, Psychology, and New New Media: The Hyperpersonal Model of Mediated Communication at Twenty-Five Years (2020), published in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
  • Social media and online hate (2022), published in Current Opinion in Psychology

Joseph B. Walther's collaborative work has involved several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Mengqi Liao
  • Zijian Lew
  • S. Shyam Sundar
  • America L. Edwards
  • Julie Jiang

Walther's research contributions have involved investigating complex interactions in digital communication environments, including social scripts, expectancy violations in communication with human or AI chatbots, and factors influencing trust in recommendation systems.

Best Publications

  • Computer-Mediated Communication Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction

    Joseph B. Walther

  • Interpersonal Effects in Computer-Mediated Interaction: A Relational Perspective

    Joseph B. Walther

  • Interpersonal Effects in Computer-Mediated Interaction A Meta-Analysis of Social and Antisocial Communication

    Joseph B. Walther;Jeffrey F. Anderson;David W. Park

  • Computer-Mediated Communication Effects on Disclosure, Impressions, and Interpersonal Evaluations: Getting to Know One Another a Bit at a Time

    Lisa Collins Tidwell;Joseph B. Walther

  • Relational communication in computer-mediated interaction

    Joseph Bart Walther;Judee K. Burgoon

  • Relational Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication: Experimental Observations over Time

    Joseph B. Walther

  • The Impacts of Emoticons on Message Interpretation in Computer-Mediated Communication:

    Joseph B. Walther;Kyle P. D’Addario

  • Selective self-presentation in computer-mediated communication: Hyperpersonal dimensions of technology, language, and cognition

    Joseph B. Walther

  • The Role of Friends’ Appearance and Behavior on Evaluations of Individuals on Facebook: Are We Known by the Company We Keep?

    Joseph B. Walther;Brandon Van Der Heide;Sang Yeon Kim;David Westerman

  • Too Much of a Good Thing? The Relationship Between Number of Friends and Interpersonal Impressions on Facebook

    Stephanie Tom Tong;Brandon Van Der Heide;Lindsey Langwell;Joseph B. Walther

  • Anticipated Ongoing Interaction Versus Channel Effects on Relational Communication in Computer-Mediated Interaction

    Joseph B. Walther

  • Group and Interpersonal Effects in International Computer-Mediated Collaboration

    Joseph B. Walther

  • Self-Generated Versus Other-Generated Statements and Impressions in Computer-Mediated Communication A Test of Warranting Theory Using Facebook

    Joseph B. Walther;Brandon Van Der Heide;Lauren M. Hamel;Hillary C. Shulman

  • Impression Development in Computer-Mediated Interaction.

    Joseph B. Walther

  • Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?: Photographic Images in Long-Term and Short-Term Computer-Mediated Communication

    Joseph B. Walther;Celeste L. Slovacek;Lisa C. Tidwell

  • Let Me Count the Ways The Interchange of Verbal and Nonverbal Cues in Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Affinity

    Joseph B. Walther;Tracy Loh;Laura Granka

  • Information-Seeking Strategies, Uncertainty, and Computer-Mediated Communication toward a Conceptual Model

    Artemio Ramirez;Joseph B. Walther;Judee K. Burgoon;Michael J Sunnafrank

  • Media Effects: Theory and Research.

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter;Joseph Bart Walther

  • Understanding Communication Processes in Focus Groups

    Terrance L. Albrecht;Gerianne M. Johnson;Joseph B. Walther

  • Nonverbal cues in computer‐mediated communication, and the effect of chronemics on relational communication

    Joseph B. Walther;Lisa C. Tidwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Judee K. Burgoon
Judee K. Burgoon University of Arizona
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Jeffrey T. Hancock Stanford University
Suzanne Pingree
Suzanne Pingree University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jochen Peter
Jochen Peter University of Amsterdam
Ron Tamborini
Ron Tamborini Michigan State University
Timothy R. Levine
Timothy R. Levine University of Oklahoma
Nicole C. Krämer
Nicole C. Krämer University of Duisburg-Essen
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Gary Bente
Gary Bente Michigan State University

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