Relationships Flashcards
What is Gardiner and Davis (2013)’s concept of a virtual top on the shoulder?
Internet - enabled digital devices improved relationships through transcending geographical and temporal barriers, allowing for immediate communication. This is prominent for young people who engage in frequent on the run communication with friends as social spaces
What did Cumming (2002) find?
Email, instant messaging and social networking sites helped students stay in frequent contact with loved ones when separated by geography
What did the common sense media 2018 survey find as a non - profit organisation to support education and advocacy for children and families?
- Teens send on average 60 texts per day
- Less than 1/3 of young people preferred face to face communication over texting
- 54% of teenagers agreed that social media distracted them when they had conversations with people like families
- 42% agreed that time spent on social media has taken time away with friends in person hindering the development of social skills like reading non - verbal cues, empathy, a lack of connection in relationships which could lead to social isolation through feelings of anxiety, depression and low self - esteem
What did Bargh and Mckenna (2004) find?
Those with lose self esteem as they are isolated, shy or disabled can relate to others through the internet as social barriers are broken down. Without the pressures of face to face contact, it enables them to disclose their feelings especially to others that face similar challenges so that they can receive support and connection consequently affecting how they express themselves online. For people with low self - esteem, this is largely achieved through creating an online persona as they can present themselves in a positive light and experiment with different aspects of their identity
What did Miller (2011) find?
Critics of Facebook suggest that friending represents an inflation of superficial and weak relationships that lack the value of true friendship through limited intimacy, vulnerability and physical closeness
What did Cancer research (2018) find?
Whilst social media can create contacts for young people, young adults with high social media usage can feel more socially isolated than those who use it less as they struggle to talk to people face to face that they do not know
What statistic of British 15 year olds spent 6 hours per day online
1/3
What did Turkle (2011) observe?
Despite the number of Facebook friends, people lack meaningful friendships as people have devotion to checking their phone similar to a relation. This develops into a post - familial family as families spend more time emotionally online than together losing intimacy, vulnerability and physical closeness which develops into a norm
What did Palmer (2007) find?
Children are having a toxic childhood as media and entertainment is used rather than face to face interaction with one another which can damage their development through a sedentary lifestyle and sleep deprivation as well as relationships. Through advertisement of capitalist values, there is little room for unstructured outdoor play for physical development, social skills and emotional well-being
What did Utz and Beukeboom (2011) argue?
Social networking sites increase the amount of information that couples receive about their partner through profiles and photos. This can also make it easier to spy and monitor partners creating jealousy ad uncertainty in the relationship
What does Kitson (2019) suggest?
Social media and technology has allowed romantic relationships to be established, they have also ruined dating through the difficulty to commit to one person through unrealistic expectations and a range of potential partners. This can lead to superficial connections without traditional courtship as no one is willing to commit through intimacy and the ease to end online relationships through ghosting
