3.1 Digital Media & Relationships

Question 1

What are relationships?

Answer 1

Social ties - connections between people

Question 2

Granovetter - what can the strength of social ties be measured by?

Answer 2

Amount of time spent together
Emotional intensity
Level of intimacy
Degree of reciprocity

Question 3

Granovetter - what type of ties did granovetter say we have?

Answer 3

Weak - acquaintances

Strong - close friends

Question 4

Granovetter - what type of ties are more important to our social networks and why?

Answer 4

Weak ties

They connect us more e.g. Through social media

Question 5

Zhao - what type of activities strengthen social ties?

Answer 5

Those directly connecting us to others e.g. Facebook

Question 6

Zhao - what type of activities weaken social ties?

Answer 6

Solitary activities e.g. Surfing the internet

Question 7

Kraut - people maintain offline relationships and online ones tend to be what?

Answer 7

Weaker

Question 8

Feld - people use social networks to do what?

Answer 8

Evaluate themselves and others by the network of friends they maintain

Question 9

What was millers study?

Answer 9

Takes from Facebook

Studying the impact of Facebook in Trinidad

Question 10

Miller - Facebook can be the means by which people do what?

Answer 10

Find and cultivate relationships

Question 11

Miller - Facebook can also be instrumental in doing what?

Answer 11

Breaking up relationships

Question 12

Miller - Facebook can bring back what?

Answer 12

The lives of those isolated

Question 13

Miller - Facebook can challenge people’s ideas about what? And create what?

Answer 13

Ideas about privacy

Create social scandal

Question 14

Miller - some people believe the truth of a person lies more in what?

Answer 14

What you see online compared to face to face

Question 15

Miller - Facebook is a vehicle for what?

Answer 15

Business

The church

Question 16

Clayton - what was claytons research?

Answer 16

The twitter effect

Question 17

Clayton - who did Clayton speak to? And about what?

Answer 17

581 twitter users of all ages

About their level of activity on twitter and any conflict that arose

Question 18

Clayton - he found negative effects of what?

Answer 18

Twitter use on offline relationships

Question 19

Clayton - the more active a person on twitter the more likely they were to report what?

Answer 19

Twitter related conflict with their partners

Question 20

Clayton - what did twitter related conflict include?

Answer 20

Frustrations over the amount of time spent online and conflict over what was being said online

Question 21

Shaw and Gant - what was their research?

Answer 21

In defence of the internet

Question 22

Shaw and Gant - they researched the impact of the internet on what?

Answer 22

Psychological health

Question 23

Shaw and Gant - participants engaged in 5 what?

Answer 23

Anonymous online chat sessions

Question 24

Shaw and Gant - at 3 intervals participants completed what?

Answer 24

Tests measuring depression, loneliness, self esteem and social support

Question 25

Shaw and Gant - internet use was found to decrease what?

Answer 25

Loneliness and depression

Question 26

Shaw and Gant - internet use was found to increase what?

Answer 26

Social support and self esteem

Question 27

(Positives) digital media provides another opportunity to do what?

Answer 27

Meet people | Particularly those you wouldn't normally come in contact with

Question 28

(Positives) what does the immediacy of digital media mean?

Answer 28

People can be contacted instantly

Question 29

(Positives) how can digital media be a way of breaking down barriers?

Answer 29

Overcome traditional barriers of meeting people e.g. Geographical, shyness or disability

Question 30

(Positives) digital media allows you to check up on friends and do what?

Answer 30

Maintain communication and communicate on an individual level

Question 31

(Positives) you can be more what behind a screen?

Answer 31

Open and honest

Question 32

(Negatives) what can cause conflict?

Answer 32

Lack of privacy

Question 33

(Negatives) it can be hard to do what?

Answer 33

Switch off

Question 34

(Negatives) you may come in contact with who?

Answer 34

People you don't want to contact

Question 35

(Negatives) what can happen to offline relationships?

Answer 35

They can be neglected due to the amount of time spent on online relationships

Question 36

(Negatives) online relationships can be superficial lacking what?

Answer 36

Emotional intimacy or real friendship

Question 37

(Negatives) how can digital media ruin relationships?

Answer 37

Conflict Pettiness Mixed interpretations