scholarly journals Rethinking Social Interaction: Empirical Model Development (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jone Bjornestad ◽  
Christian Moltu ◽  
Marius Veseth ◽  
Tore Tjora
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Empirical Model ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Full Class

BACKGROUND Social media is an integral part of human social life. More than 90% of young people use social media daily. Current theories, models, and measures are primarily based on face-to-face conceptions, leaving research out of sync with current social trends. This may lead to imprecise diagnoses and predictions. OBJECTIVE To develop a theoretically based empirical model of current social interfaces to inform relevant measures. METHODS A three-stage, qualitative, data-collection approach included anonymous individual Post-it notes, three full-class discussions, and 10 focus groups to explore 82 adolescents’ relational practices. Data analysis followed a meaning-condensation procedure and a field-correspondence technique. RESULTS We developed an empirical model that categorizes adolescents’ social interactions into five experiential positions. Four positions result from trajectories relating to social media and face-to-face social interaction. Positions are described by match or mismatch dynamics between preferred and actual social platforms used. In matched positions, individuals prefer and use both face-to-face and social media platforms (position 1), prefer and use face-to-face platforms (position 2), or prefer and use social media platforms (position 3). In mismatched positions, individuals prefer face-to-face interactions but use social media platforms (position 4) or prefer social media but use face-to-face platforms (position 5). We propose that matched positions indicate good social functioning while mismatched positions indicate serious social challenges. CONCLUSIONS We propose a model that will expand previous unidimensional social interaction constructs, and we hypothesize that the described match and mismatch analyses provide conceptual clarity for research and practical application. We discuss prediction value, implications, and model validation procedures.

scholarly journals Rethinking Social Interaction: Empirical Model Development

10.2196/18558 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. e18558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jone Bjornestad ◽  
Christian Moltu ◽  
Marius Veseth ◽  
Tore Tjora
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Empirical Model ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Full Class

Background Social media is an integral part of human social life. More than 90% of young people use social media daily. Current theories, models, and measures are primarily based on face-to-face conceptions, leaving research out of sync with current social trends. This may lead to imprecise diagnoses and predictions. Objective To develop a theoretically based empirical model of current social interfaces to inform relevant measures. Methods A three-stage, qualitative, data-collection approach included anonymous individual Post-it notes, three full-class discussions, and 10 focus groups to explore 82 adolescents’ relational practices. Data analysis followed a meaning-condensation procedure and a field-correspondence technique. Results We developed an empirical model that categorizes adolescents’ social interactions into five experiential positions. Four positions result from trajectories relating to social media and face-to-face social interaction. Positions are described by match or mismatch dynamics between preferred and actual social platforms used. In matched positions, individuals prefer and use both face-to-face and social media platforms (position 1), prefer and use face-to-face platforms (position 2), or prefer and use social media platforms (position 3). In mismatched positions, individuals prefer face-to-face interactions but use social media platforms (position 4) or prefer social media but use face-to-face platforms (position 5). We propose that matched positions indicate good social functioning while mismatched positions indicate serious social challenges. Conclusions We propose a model that will expand previous unidimensional social interaction constructs, and we hypothesize that the described match and mismatch analyses provide conceptual clarity for research and practical application. We discuss prediction value, implications, and model validation procedures.

scholarly journals Selfies as expressively authentic identity performance

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linh Nguyen ◽  
Kim Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

This paper explores whether or not our online social media persona is viewed as authentic. The selfie is a fundamental part of the structure of the online identity for young people in today’s digital world. The relationship between an individual’s self-identity in the physical face-to-face environment was analysed and compared to a carefully constructed, modified virtual representation in a selfie posted on social media platforms. Data was obtained through four focus groups at the University of Adelaide. Two key theoretical frameworks provide a basis for this study: Erving Goffman’s concept of the self as a performance, and Charles Horton Cooley’s concept of the looking glass self. In examining the focus group discussions in light of these two frameworks as well as associated literature, we conclude that the authenticity of the selfie as a way of visualising a social media persona is subjective and dependent on the individual posting a selfie. Ultimately, authenticity involves a degree of subjectivity. It was on this basis that focus group participants argued that selfies could be considered authentic expressions of identity.

scholarly journals Religious moderation discourse in plurality of social harmony in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-170
Author(s):  
Yudhi Kawangung
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Tolerance Model ◽  
Generation Technology

The study of religious tolerance this century has been entering the culmination point of saturation, in which it is no longer viewed relevantly with technology 4.0 or it is generally called millennium generation. Technology development is directly proportional to social life because humans enter the digital era in which the actualization and self-existence are prioritized. Therefore, in social interaction, it often makes friction and horizontal conflict and even social media felt more concerned about. Tolerance is gradually degraded in its implementation because it is assumed that tolerance givers have a higher level (majority) than the recipient of tolerance (minority). In this case, the tolerance model needs contextual modification, namely religious moderation as a fundamental of more acceptable social interaction among citizens and netizens.

scholarly journals “Third-Wave” Coffeehouses as Venues for Sociality: On Encounters between Employees and Customers

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Manzo
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
Work World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Commercial Landscape

Contemporary social life is often depicted, in and out of the social sciences, as an ever-worsening subterfuge of alienation, ennui, and the systematic destruction of traditional, human-scaled, publicly-accessible, “organic” sociality that people once enjoyed. In this paper I do not contend that these trends in our social and commercial landscape are not happening. I will instead contend that conventional face-to-face sociability thrives even in the face of the loss of many traditional public meeting places. My focus in this piece is on social interaction in independent cafes that are known, and that self-identify, as what coffee connoisseurs term “third-wave” coffeehouses. Deploying the analytic perspective of ethnomethodology, which prioritizes and problematizes the observed and reported lived experiences of research subjects, I argue not only that “authentic” sociality flourishes in these spaces but I also consider the role of shop employees—baristas—in them and uncover their perceptions concerning social interaction between themselves and customers. As such I not only question prevailing understandings about the “death” of traditional sociability but also add to past research on the coffeehouse as social form by problematizing, for the first time, the work world of the baristas and their interactions with customers.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Mental Health Content Moderation Conundrum

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ysabel Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Time Record ◽  
Media Society ◽  
The Uk

At the time of writing (mid-May 2020), mental health charities around the world have experienced an unprecedented surge in demand. At the same time, record-high numbers of people are turning to social media to maintain personal connections due to restrictions on physical movement. But organizations like the mental health charity Mind and even the UK Government have expressed concerns about the possible strain on mental health that may come from spending more time online during COVID-19. These concerns are unsurprising, as debates about the link between heavy social media use and mental illness raged long before the pandemic. But our newly heightened reliance on platforms to replace face-to-face communication has created even more pressure for social media companies to heighten their safety measures and protect their most vulnerable users. To develop and enact these changes, social media companies are reliant on their content moderation workforces, but the COVID-19 pandemic has presented them with two related conundrums: (1) recent changes to content moderation workforces means platforms are likely to be less safe than they were before the pandemic and (2) some of the policies designed to make social media platforms safer for people’s mental health are no longer possible to enforce. This Social Media + Society: 2K essay will address these two challenges in depth.

scholarly journals Social Media Usage and Development of Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Cataldo ◽  
Bruno Lepri ◽  
Michelle Jin Yee Neoh ◽  
Gianluca Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽  
The Impact

Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, are now part of almost everyone's social life, especially for the newer generations. Children and teenagers grew up together with these Internet-based services, which have become an integral part of their personal and social life. However, as reported in various studies, psychological and psychiatric problems are sometimes associated with problematic usage of social media. The primary purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the cognitive, psychological, and social outcomes correlated with a problematic use of social media sites during the developmental stages, from age 10 to 19 years. With a specific focus on depression, anxiety, eating, and neurodevelopmental disorders, the review also discusses evidence related to genetic and neurobiological issues, together with the implications in clinical work and future directions under a multidisciplinary perspective. While the scientific community has made significant progress in enhancing our understanding of the impact of social media on teenagers' lives, more research integrating biological and environmental factors is required to fully elucidate the development of these disorders.

scholarly journals Educationalizing Instagram for Virtual Instruction in COVID-19

2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Virtual Instruction ◽  
Virtual Class ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Math Teacher ◽  
Instructional Modalities

Learning through social media platforms is a nascent pedagogy that opens up new virtual online e-instructional modalities and avenues to be explored especially in these challenging emergency times of COVID-19. This research focuses on a self-directed initiative of a math teacher who taught her students in an open virtual class via Instagram. This study explores how the main features of Instagram -inherently used as social interaction platform - were maximized for educational purposes. It also investigates the effects, be they positive or negative, on the learning-teaching process in terms of engagement and communication. For this, a mixed-method sequential exploratory design was opted for to conduct the study which surveyed 100 students across 22 different high schools who took part in the virtual open math classes. The findings highlight the different patterns of Instagram use and platform features that lend this social media website the requisite feasibility to educationalize it. Furthermore, the results reveal both the favourable and disadvantageous aspects of Instagram.

scholarly journals RAGAM BAHASA DALAM MEDIA SOSIAL TWITTER

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Satria Prayudi ◽  
Wahidah Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Language ◽  
Rate Of Development ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Language Variety ◽  
Social Languages ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Information And Technology

The rate of development of information and technology in a frame of increasingly rapid digitalization also affects the increasing use of social media in society. Some social media that are developing at this time such as facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube, etc. have given birth to a new lifestyle in social life. The use of social media can make a person's social interaction done at any time and condition. This research aims to describe the forms of language variety in Andi Hiyat's twitter media over a span of one week. The study was conducted qualitatively with data in the form of written text. The data is examined with a sociolinguistic approach to see the variety of languages ​​used by the author. The results showed that the variety of spoken languages ​​in Twitter Andi Hiyat included in a variety of social languages. The characteristics of social language can be seen from the following eight aspects namely zeroization, diphthongization, addition of graphs, graphical changes, lexical changes, ellipsis, onomatopoeia, and mixing code. Abstrak Laju perkembangan informasi dan teknologi dalam bingkai digitalisasi yang semakin pesat turut berpengaruh pada meningkatnya penggunaan media sosial dalam masyarakat. Beberapa media sosial yang berkembang saat ini seperti facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube, dll telah melahirkan gaya hidup baru dalam kehidupan sosial bermasyarakat. Pemakaian media sosial dapat membuat interaksi sosial seseorang dilakukan pada waktu dan kondisi apapun. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bentuk ragam bahasa dalam media twitter Andi Hiyat selama rentang waktu satu minggu. Penelitian dilakukan secara kualitatif dengan data berupa teks tulis. Data tersebut dikaji dengan pendekatan sosiolinguistik untuk melihat ragam bahasa yang digunakan penulis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ragam bahasa lisan dalam twitter Andi Hiyat masuk dalam ragam bahasa sosial. Adapun penciri bahasa sosial dilihat dari delapan aspek berikut yaitu, zeroisasi, diftongisasi, penambahan grafi, perubahan grafi, perubahan leksikal, pelesapan, onomatope, dan campur kode. Kata Kunci: Sosiolinguistik, Ragam Bahasa, Twitter

Evaluating Social Media

2018 ◽  
pp. 293-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahizan Hassan ◽  
Norshuhada Shiratuddin ◽  
Nor Laily Hashim ◽  
Feng Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
Activity Generation ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research

Despite the widespread adoption and popularity of social media, research on measuring the quantifiable impact of popular social media platforms remains scarce. To this end, this study attempts to investigate how the influence of social media can be assessed in quantitative terms. The main objective is to develop a new assessment model able to integrate a broad range of criteria such as likes, subscribers, comments, posts, shares, and links. The authors extend previous assessment models focused on individual platforms such as blogs and propose a Social Media Influence Assessment model (SMIA). The process of model development—criteria, dimensions, and formula—and its validation are discussed. The results indicate that social media's influence can be measured in a structured, quantifiable manner by utilising a set of nine criteria grouped into three dimensions: recognition, activity generation, and credibility.

Silent Voices

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Orlin St. Surin ◽  
Rebecca J. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
School Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
New Form

Traditionally, face-to-face bullying has been major problem among adolescents, especially those deemed at-risk. With the rise in the use of and advancements in mobile technologies, the Internet 2.0, and smart phones, a new form of bullying has been on the rise resulting from the increase in access to technologies and by association, social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Cyberbullying, as it has been denoted, can occur at any time of the day on all social media platforms resulting in the potential of face-to-face victims enduring the abuse of their aggressors on an almost 24/7 basis. As such, cyberbullying can trigger numerous emotional and physical stressors among students. The purpose of this study was to discover the perceptions middle school students have about cyberbullying and their role as either victim, perpetrator, or bystander. The results of the study speak to a broader and emerging narrative indicating the psychological challenges faced by developing adolescent minds in negotiating face-to-face and virtual relationships.

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