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3.1 Digital Media & Relationships Flashcards

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What are relationships?

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Social ties - connections between people

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

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

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

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Weak - acquaintances

Strong - close friends

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

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Weak ties

They connect us more e.g. Through social media

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Zhao - what type of activities strengthen social ties?

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Those directly connecting us to others e.g. Facebook

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Zhao - what type of activities weaken social ties?

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Solitary activities e.g. Surfing the internet

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

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Weaker

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Feld - people use social networks to do what?

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Evaluate themselves and others by the network of friends they maintain

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What was millers study?

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Takes from Facebook

Studying the impact of Facebook in Trinidad

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

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Find and cultivate relationships

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Miller - Facebook can also be instrumental in doing what?

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Breaking up relationships

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Miller - Facebook can bring back what?

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The lives of those isolated

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

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Ideas about privacy

Create social scandal

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

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What you see online compared to face to face

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Miller - Facebook is a vehicle for what?

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Business

The church

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Clayton - what was claytons research?

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The twitter effect

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

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581 twitter users of all ages

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

18
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Clayton - he found negative effects of what?

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Twitter use on offline relationships

19
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Clayton - the more active a person on twitter the more likely they were to report what?

A

Twitter related conflict with their partners

20
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Clayton - what did twitter related conflict include?

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

21
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Shaw and Gant - what was their research?

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In defence of the internet

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

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Psychological health

23
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Shaw and Gant - participants engaged in 5 what?

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Anonymous online chat sessions

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Shaw and Gant - at 3 intervals participants completed what?

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Tests measuring depression, loneliness, self esteem and social support

25
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Shaw and Gant - internet use was found to decrease what?

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Loneliness and depression

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

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Social support and self esteem

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

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Meet people

Particularly those you wouldn’t normally come in contact with

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

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People can be contacted instantly

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

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

30
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(Positives) digital media allows you to check up on friends and do what?

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Maintain communication and communicate on an individual level

31
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(Positives) you can be more what behind a screen?

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Open and honest

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(Negatives) what can cause conflict?

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Lack of privacy

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(Negatives) it can be hard to do what?

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Switch off

34
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(Negatives) you may come in contact with who?

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People you don’t want to contact

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(Negatives) what can happen to offline relationships?

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

36
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(Negatives) online relationships can be superficial lacking what?

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Emotional intimacy or real friendship

37
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(Negatives) how can digital media ruin relationships?

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Conflict
Pettiness
Mixed interpretations

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