The adoption of ICTs for facilitating interactions can create barriers for those who identify as outsiders in technology-mediated groups. We use an experiment to investigate how outsiders pursue social integration strategies, including group assimilation and resistance, to empower themselves in short-term technology-mediated groups. We find the effectiveness of detached group members depends on the social integration strategies they employ and the social presence offered by the communication technologies they use. Our findings demonstrate that group members who are already feeling detached from others can become even more detached — indeed marginalized — when their group shifts to technology-mediated communications. They can improve their personal effectiveness by altering their social integration strategies and the technology being used to facilitate communication. This study has important theoretical and practical implications for outsiders’ social inclusion and effectiveness in short-term technology-mediated groups.

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我与我们：群体分离和社会存在如何塑造短期技术介导群体的整合策略


采用信息通信技术促进互动可能会给那些在技术介导的群体中被视为局外人的人造成障碍。我们通过一项实验来调查局外人如何追求社会融合策略，包括群体同化和抵抗，以在短期技术介导的群体中增强自己的能力。我们发现，独立群体成员的有效性取决于他们采用的社会融合策略以及他们使用的通信技术所提供的社会存在。我们的研究结果表明，当团队转向以技术为媒介的沟通方式时，那些已经感到与他人疏远的团队成员可能会变得更加疏远，甚至被边缘化。他们可以通过改变社会融合策略和用于促进沟通的技术来提高个人效率。这项研究对于局外人在短期技术介导的群体中的社会包容性和有效性具有重要的理论和实践意义。