Thy PhamHDP 150

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA HAS AFFECTED OUR COMMUNICATION AND IN TURN OUR RELATIONSHIPS

Social Media

• 74% of adults use social networking sites• On average: 1 hour and 33 min daily

How has social media affected our communication and in turn, our interpersonal relationships?

Social Media and Communication

• Haridakis & Hanson , 2009• Used YouTube for: entertainment, social interaction, And info seeking. Socially active users, more likely to shareVideos for social purposes, co-viewing, and entertainment.

• 427 volunteered college students• Self-administered questionnaires

Social Media and Communication• Mou, 2012

• Risk communication pattern in social media concerning food safety issues in China

• Positive relationship between microblogging, risk perception, and risk-information sharing

Pea, Nass, Meheula, Rance, Kiman, Bamford & Zhou, 2012

Social well-being and young girls media use

Negative social well-being =positively associated with media that are about interpersonal and non-interpersonal interaction. Video use and media multitasking was strong associated with negative social well-being. Face-to-face communication was strongly associated with positive social well-being.

Social Media and Relationships• Hsu, Wang & Tai, 2011

• People who use social media, specifically Facebook, have an increased sense of closeness between themselves and acquaintances after using Facebook but less of an increase in closeness with existing close friends

• Kujath, 2009• Social media has not served as a replacement to face-to-face

communication but rather supplementary. It has also been found that users used Facebook and MySpace not to make new friends; users more often used social media websites to maintain existing relationships

Social Media and Relationships• Ledbetter, Mazer, DeGroot, Meyer, Mao & Swafford, 2011• Results suggested that online social connection was a positive predictor of Facebook communication while online self-disclosure inversely predicted Facebook communication. It was found that both offline and Facebook communication is associated with relational closeness (Ledbetter et al. , 2011).

ConclusionNot necessarily the case

References • http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fact-sheet/• http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/social-media-minutes-day/503160• http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Younger-Users-Spend-More-Daily-Time-on-Social-Network

s/1011592• Pea, R., Nass, C., Meheula, L., Rance, M., Kumar, A., Bamford, H., . . . Zhou, M. (2012).

Media use, face-to-face communication, media multitasking, and social well-being among 8- to 12-year-old girls. Developmental Psychology, 48(2), 327-336. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0027030

• Mou, Y. (2012). Social media and risk communication: The role of social networking sites in food-safety communication (Order No. 3529448). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I. (1095369797). Retrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/1095369797?accountid=14524

• Hsu, C. (., Wang, C., & Tai, Y. (2011). The closer the relationship, the more the interaction on facebook? investigating the case of taiwan users. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14(7-8), 473-476. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2010.0267

• Ledbetter, A. M., Mazer, J. P., DeGroot, J. M., Meyer, K. R., Mao, Y., & Swafford, B. (2011). Attitudes toward online social connection and self-disclosure as predictors of facebook communication and relational closeness. Communication Research,38(1), 27-53. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650210365537

• Haridakis, P., & Hanson, G. (2009). Social interaction and co-viewing with YouTube: Blending mass communication reception and social connection.  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53(2), 317-335. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08838150902908270

• Kujath, C. L. (2011). Facebook and MySpace: Complement or substitute for face-to-face interaction? Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14(1-2), 75-78. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2009.0311