Have We All Just Become “Robo-Sapiens”? Reflections on Social Influence Processes in the Internet Age

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments The views expressed in this article do not reflect those of the National Science Foundation. We thank Dr. Kai Sassenberg for his willingness to share his commentary with us and thank our fellow Online Social Influence Lab member, Jessy Minney, M.A., as well as our volunteer computer programmer, Tonio Loewald, for their helpful review of and suggestions on an earlier draft on this manuscript. Last, but definitely not least, thank you, Dr. Amber Story, for the encouragement and support she has given to the first author—that is what really made the paper possible. Notes Surprisingly still exists at http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/ This search term now yields so many hits, the first author cannot identify the original.