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Dr Martin Lea
| Dr Martin Lea Department of Psychology University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL +44 (0)161 275 2582 lea@psy.man.ac.uk |
Martin Lea (PhD, Lancaster University,
1983)(Effects of Visual Anonymity in Computer Mediated Group
Interactions) is a research fellow in psychology at the University of Manchester. He
previously held a postdoctoral fellowship in information technology from the SERC, and a
special training fellowship from the Joint Research Council Initiative in Cognitive
Science/Human Computer Interaction. He has also worked as a researcher at the Institute of
Educational Technology, Open University. His main research interests are in the social
psychology and sociology of communication technologies. He currently leads projects funded
by the ESRC (Virtual Society? research programme) and the EPSRC (Multimedia and Networking
Applications research programme) that are respectively investigating effects of anonymity
and visibility in computer-mediated groups, and developing computer-supported
collaborative learning in groups. He has written about computer-mediated communication and
the Internet in social psychology, communication, organization science, and human computer
interaction journals and books. He previously edited Contexts of Computer-Mediated
Communication for Harvester-Wheatsheaf (published 1992). |
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