Social Media Usage, Social Relations, and a Sense of Community in Indonesia

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Hamideh Molaei
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Collectivist Culture ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Depth Interviews

Because of their participatory nature, social media can facilitate and accelerate social relationships, but their functions may vary from one cultural context to another. This article aims to investigate whether social media usage affects social relations and a sense of community in Indonesia, a country dominated by a collectivist culture. Based on a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with Indonesian journalists, social media experts, and media scholars, the author concludes that social media enhance social relationships in Indonesia in two different ways: first, by facilitating and extending social relationships within the existing offline networks of friends; and, second, by contributing to the spirit of togetherness and solidarity among the members of a community.

scholarly journals Use of Digital Technologies and Social Media and the Social Relationships of Teenagers

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Chmielewska ◽  
Mariusz Z. Jędrzejko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Context ◽  
Refusal To Participate ◽  
Technology Abuse ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Polish pedagogical and psychological literature as well as mass media more and more often inform about disorders of competences and social relations of teenagers, as a result of abuse of digital technologies, especially smartphones. The authors analysed 31 cases of patients with cyberabuse and addictions at the Social Prevention Centre in terms of the occurrence, intensity and character of the disappearance of their real social contacts, as well as their behaviour in small natural peer groups. The obtained results were compared with 49 groups of adults and parents of patients. Research based on participatory observation and in-depth interviews showed that teenagers devote over 62% less time to personal social relations than their parents, their time of real social relations with parents is about 38 minutes per day, create atomistic attitudes towards family (e.g. refusal to participate in common meals), have shallow and narrow groups of friends, and prefer borrowed contacts (through social media). The average declared number of teenagers’ friends in social media exceeds 540, while their parents use smartphones in less than 140. Young respondents use smartphones in almost every social and life context (e.g. in toilets, in church, at school, during meals). The research confirmed the occurrence of digital technology abuse. The article ends with preventive delegations.

scholarly journals Interpretation of Family Members’ Involvement in Religious Groups

Society ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 695-706
Author(s):  
Kurniati Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews

Family reactions and assessments of all family members towards family members belonging to specific religious groups still occur. This interpretation can trigger disharmony in the family and is an interesting social phenomenon to research. This research uses a qualitative research method. This research assumes that empirical realities occur in a socio-cultural context that is interrelated with one another. This research aims to describe family reactions, family social relationships, and family assessments on their family members’ involvement in specific religious groups. The informants were selected using a purposive sampling technique by taking three people from each religious group (Jamaah Tabligh, Wahdah Islamiyah, and Lembaga Dakwah Islam Indonesia known as LDII). Data were collected using in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The data analysis used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The results showed that family social relations on family members’ involvement in certain religious groups tended to get the same reaction based on their interpretation. Contravention interpretation from dominant family on family members belonging to specific religious groups still occurs compared with accommodative relationships. Meanwhile, family assessments on their family members’ involvement in certain religious groups are generally negative.

scholarly journals Social Capital of Entrusted Service Agents for Imported Fashion and Cosmetics Products

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Radita Gora
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Online Trading

The increasing online trading system through e-commerce and social media has triggered a group of people, as entrusted service agents, to take part in the trade of fashion and cosmetics products carried out by either individual or social communities. In an effort to support the success of this individual trading system, the entrusted service agents take advantage of social capital to establish social relationships to be part of the circle of transactions for either re-sellers or sellers. Social capital is a skill that is inherent in an individual to establish social relationships with others. Based on the results of the study, the entrusted service agents have the habit to gather with the hedonist community, such as socialites and groups of wealthy people who have a consumptive nature, in a hope that in the circle of social relations there will be a social structure in the pattern of circular communication to create massive personal trade transaction relationships.

scholarly journals Impact of social media on children´s relationship with brands

2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Nikoleta Hutmanová ◽  
Peter Dorčák
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

The paper focuses on how social media usage by children determines their interactions with consumer brands. First it describes how and when young children develop brand awareness and which are the most important predictors of this development. Those findings are then put in connection with the impact of social media. We elaborate on a deeper level how children approach online communications with brands in the social media context. Our assumptions are supported by a research conducted on a group of New Zealand children, both boys and girls in the age group of 11-14 years. This qualitative approach was implemented using in-depth interviews and identifies three key modes of brand interaction behaviour when young consumers use social media. According to these findings we assume that there is a connection between the use of social media and children´s relationship with consumer brands.

scholarly journals Social Media Usage and its Effect on Quality of Adolescent Social Relationships

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadie Saltzman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Does the number of social media platforms that an adolescent uses have an effect on the quality of their social relationships? As social media continues to grow and evolve, sociologists have begun to explore its effect on an individual’s everyday life. I propose that the more social media platforms that an adolescent uses, the more they will experience negative effects on their social relationships. Using survey data from 786 respondents living in the United States, ages 13 to 17 and collected by the Pew Research Center in 2014 and 2015, regression analyses were conducted to determine the relationship between social media usage and its effect on quality of adolescent social relationships, controlling for sex and age. The bivariate results show a statistically significant, positive but weak association between number of social media platforms used and the social relationship experience scale. In the multivariate results, this association was still statistically significant. Additionally, the multivariate results show that the control variables, sex and age, have no significant effect on one’s social relationship experience. Therefore, these results show that the more social media platforms used, the more negative a social relationship experience an adolescent will have. The results support the hypothesis and indicate that adolescents who interact with a higher number of social media platforms will experience an increased negative effect on their social relationships. In future studies, researchers should investigate how specific social media platforms influence social relationships. Additionally, this type of research should not only continue, but should refine its methods as social media continues to quickly grow and evolve.

Facebook Politics: Strategic Network Campaigning in the 2012 Taiwan Presidential Election

2015 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Chia-Shin Lin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Political Candidates ◽  
Step Flow ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Influence Perceptions ◽  
Depth Interviews

The networked nature of social media allows users to link their pre-existing connections and develop new types of online relationships. This study aimed to examine the relationships between candidates' camps and ‘netizens' during the 2012 Taiwan presidential election. To benefit from the rapid growth of social networking, political candidates have used social media as an election campaign tool. However, the strategic approach of these candidates seems to contradict the networked nature of social media, especially in terms of friendship. Through in-depth interviews with campaign staff, journalists and scholars, this research found that a new concept – strategic network campaigning (SNC) – can be proposed. Combining ‘two-step flow’ communication, para-social relationships and network society theory, SNC explains how election camps mimic Facebook's networked nature by placing staff in the network to influence netizens. Through SNC, campaign staff develop hubs that they can control, establish friend-like relationships with netizens, and influence perceptions of candidates.

What does social media have to do with health? A case study of Bangkok youths

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chulanee Thianthai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Self Development ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Objective This qualitative research aims to understand how Bangkok youths perceive social media usage effects on their physical, psychological, social and spiritual health. Methods A total of 74 Bangkok youths, aged 15–24 years old, divided according to each age and gender group participated in in-depth interviews and mobile phone search observations. Health impact was categorized into the four health aspects through content analysis according to sociological perspectives. Results Bangkok youths view social media to have both positive and negative effects on their health. Increased awareness of negative results was shown with increased age. While younger youths use social media for entertainment, older youths also use social media for self-development. Interests and degree of sensitivity varied among the genders. Conclusion Effective health education can only be achieved through future youth-centered research on social media usage based on age, gender and cultural variations.

scholarly journals La metamorfosis de un patio. ¿Relaciones violentas?

2019 ◽  
Vol número 8 (julio-diciembre 2019) ◽  
pp. 209-224
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Direct Observations ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
School Recess ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews

Resumen Este artículo reporta hallazgos que muestran el tipo de relaciones sociales que se establecen durante el receso escolar en una escuela primaria. La investigación resulta significativa pues da cuenta, entre otras cosas, de ciertas formas de violencia estructural que se concretan en el tipo de relaciones que se establecen entre maestros, directivos y alumnos durante el receso. La escuela primaria que se eligió tiene dos particularidades importantes: por un lado, formó parte de lo que en su momento se llamó Unidad Pedagógica; por otro lado, al momento de iniciar la investigación la escuela mantenía un dispositivo de control, que consiste en dividir el patio en áreas; esto contrasta fuertemente con la forma en que se vivía el espacio cuando la escuela pertenecía a la UP. Palabras clave: Violencia estructural, relaciones sociales, escuela primaria, investigación etnográfica. Abstract This article reports findings that show the type of social relationships that are established during the school recess in a primary school. The investigation is significant because it accounts, among other things, for certain forms of structural violence that are specified in the type of relationships established between teachers, managers and students during the break. The elementary school that was chosen has two important features: on the one hand, it was part of what was once called the Pedagogical Unit; On the other hand, at the time of initiating the investigation, the school maintained a control device, which consists of dividing the patio into areas; this contrasts sharply with the way in which the space was lived when the school belonged to the UP. For the research, an ethnographic perspective was used, which consisted of the application of in-depth interviews and direct observations in the school playground. Keyworks: Structural violence, social relations, primary school, ethnographic research

scholarly journals Elite Female Athletes’ Perceptions of New Media Use Relating to Their Careers: A Qualitative Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea N. Geurin
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Personal Brand ◽  
Depth Interviews

Today’s elite athletes face increasing demands to develop a new media presence in order to build their personal brand and connect with a wide variety of stakeholders. Myriad studies have focused on athletes’ new media use by examining content posted online; however, few studies have examined new media usage from the athletes’ perspectives. Using the theoretical framework of self-presentation theory to uncover athletes’ new media perceptions, goals, and strategies, semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with six elite female athletes training for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Findings revealed that although athletes had goals for sharing their lives, developing connections, sponsorship, and self-promotion, they did not employ specific strategies to meet these goals or attempt to measure whether their goals were met. Gender-related findings included feeling pressure to post sexually suggestive images and receiving unwanted private communications from male fans. The implications are discussed within the paper.

Unpacking (the) secret: Anonymous social media and the impossibility of networked anonymity

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 4177-4194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzlil Sharon ◽  
Nicholas A John
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anonymous Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study focuses on the perceptions and practices of anonymous communication with friends enabled by tie-based anonymous apps. Based on qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with users of the application Secret, the strategies deployed by interviewees in order to de-anonymize other users are emphasized and placed within the broader context of the real-name web. The article shows that Secret was not only based on pre-existing social networks but also drew on the network as a structure of thought. The concept of networked anonymity is introduced to account for the ways that anonymous actors imagine one another as “someone,” rather than as an unknown “anyone.” As such, the survivability of this communicative model is inherently limited by competing forces—the drive to connectivity, on the one hand, and to anonymity, on the other.

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