Friendship Maintenance in the Digital Age: Applying a Relational Lens to Online Social Interaction

Irina Shklovski, Louise Barkhuus, Nis Bornoe, Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye

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Abstract

HCI research has explored mobile technologies to support social activity and to support greater feelings of connectedness. Much of this has focused on different mobile devices, individual preferences and modes of use. Yet social activity and connectedness are about ongoing enactments of relationships across technologies. We propose the relational lens as a way to include a notion of relational tension in addition to individual preferences in the design and analysis of mobile communication technologies. We discuss three strategies people use to manage tensions in their relationships: selection, segmentation and integration. Our data show that use of social technologies can at times destabilize social relations and occasion relational tensions, forcing users to renegotiate how they enact these relationships.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '15)
Antal sider11
ForlagAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publikationsdato2015
Sider1477-1487
ISBN (Trykt)978-1-4503-2922-4
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2015
Begivenhed18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '15) - Vancouver, Canada
Varighed: 14 mar. 201518 mar. 2015
Konferencens nummer: 18th

Konference

Konference18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '15)
Nummer18th
Land/OmrådeCanada
ByVancouver
Periode14/03/201518/03/2015

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