A social process model for cyber mind in the mobile Internet

Abstract

As the number of the Internet-enabled mobile handsets increases, it is apparent that the mobile Internet deeply penetrates into the every day life and impacts social interactions. The new ways of communications expose new social interaction patterns. Some of them are uncommon in the real world interactions. The author describes some of the case studies on new social interaction patterns and presents the implications for mobile Internet-augmented societies. Especially, these interaction patterns are distinguished in the viewpoints of quality of interaction modalities and loose identification. The author assumes a new social relation building process in the three aspects; communication modality, identity and distance. A mobile cyber mind is defined and several aspects of it are contrasted with those in the real world interactions. A staged AIMS model is proposed to provide a basic measure to analyze the cyber mind in the emerged technologies to augment the social interactions. The model focuses on the two aspects of the interactions: the successful communication experience and development of social bindings during interactions.