HCC: Small: Website Design, Content, and Ideological Communication

这项跨学科研究旨在了解网站设计和内容如何影响暴力和非暴力意识形态网站的心理过程以及态度和行为结果。 将进行一项内容分析研究，以确定和比较意识形态网站（暴力和非暴力）和非意识形态网站的网站可信度、互动性和说服策略的水平和性质。这些变量的网站有用性的意识形态传播和心理过程，如身份表达，和非人性化的关系也将被检查。 接下来，将进行一系列实验，研究网站的关键特征（可信度，互动性和说服力）对网站用户的知识，态度和行为意图的因果影响。这些研究将比较这些特征对鼓吹暴力和非暴力的意识形态网站的影响。 相关用户特征（例如，人口统计学、社会认同、自尊、生理唤醒）将被捕获，用于模型构建和测试调节影响的目的。 在这些实验中，将开发模拟网站，以代表不同方面的可信度，互动性和说服力。 人类参与者将被要求浏览这些网站并回答讨论主题，探索相关链接，填写简短的问卷，并参与旨在评估关键结果的其他活动。知识，态度和意图的措施将评估之前和之后的网站曝光进行比较。通过利用跨学科的方法，越来越多的意识形态团体在网上的存在，这一系列的研究将导致新的理论和模式，为未来的研究和传播的教育网站服务于公共利益。新的知识将通过检查可信度，互动性和说服力的具体方面，以前没有被研究的意识形态动机的态度和行为。 暴力和非暴力意识形态网站的重要比较也将有助于通过以人为中心的计算更好地理解意识形态的感知和反应。 这项合作努力还将为团队成员和更广泛的研究社区开发和展示未来综合研究的方法。 虽然调查和调查结果将侧重于意识形态网站设计和沟通，但开发的框架也将与研究网站设计对在线教育等其他领域成果的影响有关。进行实验所需的理论和方法背景的结合将有助于心理学，传播学和管理信息系统的博士生和本科生研究助理的研究培训。 这项研究的结果也可能对教育公众了解意识形态网站以及他们如何试图影响和说服访问这些网站的人产生一些实际影响。 此外，通过几个科学的专业渠道传播成果将实现对多个学术领域做出贡献的更广泛影响。

This interdisciplinary research seeks to understand how website design and content influence psychological processes and attitudinal and behavioral outcomes on violent and non-violent ideological websites. A content analysis study will be conducted to identify and compare the level and nature of website credibility, interactivity, and persuasion tactics for ideological websites (violent and non-violent) and for non-ideological websites. Relationships of these variables to website usefulness for ideology dissemination and psychological processes such as identity expression, and dehumanization will also be examined. Next, a series of experiments examining causal influences of key website characteristics (credibility, interactivity, and persuasion) on website users' knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions will be conducted. These studies will compare the effects of these characteristics for ideological websites advocating violence versus non-violence. Relevant user characteristics (e.g., demographics, social identity, self-esteem, physiological arousal) will be captured for purposes of model building and testing for moderating influences. In these experiments, simulated websites will be developed to represent varying facets of credibility, interactivity, and persuasion. Human participants will be asked to navigate through these websites and respond to discussion threads, explore related links, fill out short questionnaires, and engage in other activities intended to assess key outcomes. Measures of knowledge, attitudes, and intentions will be assessed before and after website exposure for comparison. By leveraging an interdisciplinary approach to the growing number and presence of ideological groups online, this series of studies will lead to new theories and models for future research and dissemination of educational websites serving public interests. New knowledge will be developed by examining the specific facets of credibility, interactivity, and persuasion, which have not previously been studied with respect to ideologically motivated attitudes and behavior. An important comparison of violent and non-violent ideological websites will also contribute uniquely to better understanding the perceptions of and responses to ideologies through human-centered computing. This collaborative effort will also develop and demonstrate methods for future integrated research, for team members and the broader research community. Although the investigation and findings will focus on ideological website design and communication, the framework developed will also be relevant to studying the impact of website design on outcomes in other areas such as online education. The combination of theoretical and methodological backgrounds required to conduct the experiments will contribute to the research training of doctoral students and undergraduate research assistants in Psychology, Communication, and Management Information Systems. Findings from this research are likely to also have a number of practical implications for educating the general public about ideological websites and how they attempt to influence and persuade individuals who visit these sites. In addition, dissemination of the results through the professional channels of several sciences will achieve the broader impact of contributing to multiple academic fields.