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Papers by Cameron Piercy
This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechn... more This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechnical ego-networks. United States residents (N = 285) who had sought jobs in the past two years responded to questions about their perceptions of sources used during the job search (n = 1297). Participants rated each source they used across a variety of perceived attributes. We measured tie strength using an amalgam of frequency of interaction and closeness, and strong tie sources included humans contacted online and in-person as well as websites. In contrast, the weakest tie sources were direct online application, employment agencies, and career events. Results showed a newly developed perceived bridging scale, social support, ease of access, and homophily were all positively related to tie strength. Influence was negatively related to tie strength. Information quality was not related to tie strength. We discuss implications for network and job search research, theory, and practice.
In organizational meetings mobile media are commonly used to hold multiple simultaneous conversat... more In organizational meetings mobile media are commonly used to hold multiple simultaneous conversations (i.e., multicommunication). This experiment uses video vignettes to test how manager policy (no policy, pro-technology, anti-technology), device-use (notepad, laptop, cell phone) and task-acknowledgement (no task-acknowledgement, task-acknowledgement) affect perceptions of meeting multicommunication behavior. U.S. workers (N = 243) who worked at least 30 hours per week and attended at least one weekly meeting rated relevant outcomes: expectancy violation, communicator evaluation, perceived competence, and meeting effectiveness. Results reveal manager policy and device-use both affect multicommunication perceptions with mobile phones generating the highest expectancy violation and lowest evaluation of the communicator and meeting effectiveness. Surprisingly, there was no effect for task-acknowledgment; however, a match between manager policy and task-acknowledgement affected evaluati...
Supplemental material, Supplemental_Table_A for Reconsidering 'Ties': The Sociotechnical ... more Supplemental material, Supplemental_Table_A for Reconsidering 'Ties': The Sociotechnical Job Search Network by Cameron W. Piercy and Sun Kyong (Sunny) Lee in International Journal of Business Communication
Supplemental material, Appendix_A_Alternative_Model_Testing for The Structuration of Identificati... more Supplemental material, Appendix_A_Alternative_Model_Testing for The Structuration of Identification on Organizational Members' Social Media by Cameron W. Piercy and Caleb T. Carr in International Journal of Business Communication
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mmc-10.1177_2050157920927049 for Expectations of technology use d... more Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mmc-10.1177_2050157920927049 for Expectations of technology use during meetings: An experimental test of manager policy, device use, and task-acknowledgment by Cameron W. Piercy Greta R. Underhill in Mobile Media & Communication
Human-Machine Communication, 2021
This study uses a sample of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (N = 240) who differ in skill, e... more This study uses a sample of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (N = 240) who differ in skill, education, and income to replicate and extend past findings about socioeconomic disparities in the perceptions of automation. Specifically, this study applies the skills-biased technical change hypothesis, an economic theory that low-skill jobs are the most likely to be affected by increased automation (Acemoglu & Restrepo, 2019), to the mental models of pharmacy workers. We formalize the hypothesis that anxiety about automation leads to perceptions that jobs will change in the future and automation will increase. We also posit anxiety about overpayment related to these outcomes. Results largely support the skillsbiased hypothesis as a mental model shared by pharmacy workers regardless of position, with few effects for overpayment anxiety.
Computers in Human Behavior, 2017
Computers in Human Behavior, 2014
Persuasive Technology, 2014
A serious video game was created to teach players about cognitive bias and encourage mitigation o... more A serious video game was created to teach players about cognitive bias and encourage mitigation of both confirmation bias and the fundamental attribution error. Multiplayer and single-player versions of the game were created to test the effect of different feedback sources on bias mitigation performance. A total of 626 participants were randomly assigned to play the single player/multiplayer game once or repeatedly. The results indicate the single player game was superior at reducing confirmation bias and that repeated plays and plays of longer duration were more effective at mitigating both biases than a control condition where participants watched a training video.
Communication Studies, 2017
Social Science & Medicine
Employees may engage in some misrepresentation on employer review websites (e.g., GlassDoor, Inde... more Employees may engage in some misrepresentation on employer review websites (e.g., GlassDoor, Indeed), even when reviewing an employer anonymously. This research explores how linguistic features of employee-generated reviews (N = 204) might serve as a means of detecting misrepresentation, presentations of the organization that depart from one’s personal beliefs, in employer reviews. Findings suggest language analytics may not be a fruitful means of detecting deception in online employer reviews. Results are discussed with respect to employees’ self-presentation of their employers and the linguistics of misrepresentation.
This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechn... more This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechnical ego-networks. United States residents (N = 285) who had sought jobs in the past 2 years respond...
This project was funded by KU Libraries’ Parent’s Campaign with support from the David Shulenburg... more This project was funded by KU Libraries’ Parent’s Campaign with support from the David Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright and the Open Educational Resources Working Group in the University of Kansas Libraries.
This study utilizes Walther and Parks' (2002) warranting theory to explore the relationship b... more This study utilizes Walther and Parks' (2002) warranting theory to explore the relationship between online system- and co-generated relational cues and the strength of offline romantic relational characteristics. Differences in respondents' (N = 170) relational characteristics were predicted based on their relationship statuses articulated on Facebook. Results indicate individuals who display their relationship status on Facebook are more dependent in their relationship (i.e., more satisfied, committed, invested, and with lower perceived relational alternatives) and used Facebook more. In other words, individuals in relationships that are ‘Facebook official’ report being in more committed, stronger relationships than non-Facebook official counterparts. Findings are discussed with respect to the relationships among social media, relational attributes, and warranting theory.
Social Media + Society
Social networking sites (SNSs) allow individuals to establish and maintain a variety of relations... more Social networking sites (SNSs) allow individuals to establish and maintain a variety of relationships as well as share different aspects of their identity by expressing their views on numerous topics, including politics. SNS also come with perceived interpersonal risks and benefits tied to sharing with a collapsed networked audience. Using a nationally representative sample of US social media users ( N = 2,873) from 2016, this study investigated how perceived network characteristics influence people’s decision to engage in online political expression on three platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Findings indicate that perceived ideological homophily with the audience on an SNS and past use of privacy management settings both predict how much individuals post about politics on Facebook and Twitter, but not on Instagram. On Instagram, Black Americans were significantly more likely to engage in online political expression. On Facebook and Twitter, older Americans engaged in mor...
This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechn... more This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechnical ego-networks. United States residents (N = 285) who had sought jobs in the past two years responded to questions about their perceptions of sources used during the job search (n = 1297). Participants rated each source they used across a variety of perceived attributes. We measured tie strength using an amalgam of frequency of interaction and closeness, and strong tie sources included humans contacted online and in-person as well as websites. In contrast, the weakest tie sources were direct online application, employment agencies, and career events. Results showed a newly developed perceived bridging scale, social support, ease of access, and homophily were all positively related to tie strength. Influence was negatively related to tie strength. Information quality was not related to tie strength. We discuss implications for network and job search research, theory, and practice.
In organizational meetings mobile media are commonly used to hold multiple simultaneous conversat... more In organizational meetings mobile media are commonly used to hold multiple simultaneous conversations (i.e., multicommunication). This experiment uses video vignettes to test how manager policy (no policy, pro-technology, anti-technology), device-use (notepad, laptop, cell phone) and task-acknowledgement (no task-acknowledgement, task-acknowledgement) affect perceptions of meeting multicommunication behavior. U.S. workers (N = 243) who worked at least 30 hours per week and attended at least one weekly meeting rated relevant outcomes: expectancy violation, communicator evaluation, perceived competence, and meeting effectiveness. Results reveal manager policy and device-use both affect multicommunication perceptions with mobile phones generating the highest expectancy violation and lowest evaluation of the communicator and meeting effectiveness. Surprisingly, there was no effect for task-acknowledgment; however, a match between manager policy and task-acknowledgement affected evaluati...
Supplemental material, Supplemental_Table_A for Reconsidering 'Ties': The Sociotechnical ... more Supplemental material, Supplemental_Table_A for Reconsidering 'Ties': The Sociotechnical Job Search Network by Cameron W. Piercy and Sun Kyong (Sunny) Lee in International Journal of Business Communication
Supplemental material, Appendix_A_Alternative_Model_Testing for The Structuration of Identificati... more Supplemental material, Appendix_A_Alternative_Model_Testing for The Structuration of Identification on Organizational Members' Social Media by Cameron W. Piercy and Caleb T. Carr in International Journal of Business Communication
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mmc-10.1177_2050157920927049 for Expectations of technology use d... more Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mmc-10.1177_2050157920927049 for Expectations of technology use during meetings: An experimental test of manager policy, device use, and task-acknowledgment by Cameron W. Piercy Greta R. Underhill in Mobile Media & Communication
Human-Machine Communication, 2021
This study uses a sample of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (N = 240) who differ in skill, e... more This study uses a sample of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (N = 240) who differ in skill, education, and income to replicate and extend past findings about socioeconomic disparities in the perceptions of automation. Specifically, this study applies the skills-biased technical change hypothesis, an economic theory that low-skill jobs are the most likely to be affected by increased automation (Acemoglu & Restrepo, 2019), to the mental models of pharmacy workers. We formalize the hypothesis that anxiety about automation leads to perceptions that jobs will change in the future and automation will increase. We also posit anxiety about overpayment related to these outcomes. Results largely support the skillsbiased hypothesis as a mental model shared by pharmacy workers regardless of position, with few effects for overpayment anxiety.
Computers in Human Behavior, 2017
Computers in Human Behavior, 2014
Persuasive Technology, 2014
A serious video game was created to teach players about cognitive bias and encourage mitigation o... more A serious video game was created to teach players about cognitive bias and encourage mitigation of both confirmation bias and the fundamental attribution error. Multiplayer and single-player versions of the game were created to test the effect of different feedback sources on bias mitigation performance. A total of 626 participants were randomly assigned to play the single player/multiplayer game once or repeatedly. The results indicate the single player game was superior at reducing confirmation bias and that repeated plays and plays of longer duration were more effective at mitigating both biases than a control condition where participants watched a training video.
Communication Studies, 2017
Social Science & Medicine
Employees may engage in some misrepresentation on employer review websites (e.g., GlassDoor, Inde... more Employees may engage in some misrepresentation on employer review websites (e.g., GlassDoor, Indeed), even when reviewing an employer anonymously. This research explores how linguistic features of employee-generated reviews (N = 204) might serve as a means of detecting misrepresentation, presentations of the organization that depart from one’s personal beliefs, in employer reviews. Findings suggest language analytics may not be a fruitful means of detecting deception in online employer reviews. Results are discussed with respect to employees’ self-presentation of their employers and the linguistics of misrepresentation.
This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechn... more This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechnical ego-networks. United States residents (N = 285) who had sought jobs in the past 2 years respond...
This project was funded by KU Libraries’ Parent’s Campaign with support from the David Shulenburg... more This project was funded by KU Libraries’ Parent’s Campaign with support from the David Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright and the Open Educational Resources Working Group in the University of Kansas Libraries.
This study utilizes Walther and Parks' (2002) warranting theory to explore the relationship b... more This study utilizes Walther and Parks' (2002) warranting theory to explore the relationship between online system- and co-generated relational cues and the strength of offline romantic relational characteristics. Differences in respondents' (N = 170) relational characteristics were predicted based on their relationship statuses articulated on Facebook. Results indicate individuals who display their relationship status on Facebook are more dependent in their relationship (i.e., more satisfied, committed, invested, and with lower perceived relational alternatives) and used Facebook more. In other words, individuals in relationships that are ‘Facebook official’ report being in more committed, stronger relationships than non-Facebook official counterparts. Findings are discussed with respect to the relationships among social media, relational attributes, and warranting theory.
Social Media + Society
Social networking sites (SNSs) allow individuals to establish and maintain a variety of relations... more Social networking sites (SNSs) allow individuals to establish and maintain a variety of relationships as well as share different aspects of their identity by expressing their views on numerous topics, including politics. SNS also come with perceived interpersonal risks and benefits tied to sharing with a collapsed networked audience. Using a nationally representative sample of US social media users ( N = 2,873) from 2016, this study investigated how perceived network characteristics influence people’s decision to engage in online political expression on three platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Findings indicate that perceived ideological homophily with the audience on an SNS and past use of privacy management settings both predict how much individuals post about politics on Facebook and Twitter, but not on Instagram. On Instagram, Black Americans were significantly more likely to engage in online political expression. On Facebook and Twitter, older Americans engaged in mor...