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Interpersonal media/Social media tools
Internet as a natural background part of everyday life
Bridging distances between people
Social impact of cyberspace by practicing ordinary, even mundane, social uses.
aSynchronous to Synchronous
Perspectives of interpersonal online communication
Lost Perspective
The Social Presence Model(Short, Williams, & Christie, 1976)
Social context cues Model(Sproull & Kiesler, 1986, 1991)
The Media Richness Model(Daft and Lengel, 1984)
The Liberation Perspective
The Social Information Processing Model (Walther ,1992)
The Hyperpersonal communication model (Walther (1996)
Perspectives of interpersonal online communication
Studies in interpersonal online communication (according to Valkenburg and Peter, 2009)
First category of studies focuses on the uses and functions of online communication technologies for adolescents and adults.
Second category of studies has focused primarily on detecting differences in the quality of online friendships and offline friendships.
Third category of studies, aims to investigate the consequences of different types of Internet use for the quantity and/or quality of existing friendships or other social relationships.
InstantMessaging
Near-synchronous written medium Connection on distance Real-time interaction Creating shared spaces Extension of everyday “talk” Maintaining relationships Inexpensive
Skype
Radmila: No need to explain I’ll skype you!
Skyping My community
Recipe:10 Representative people of my Skype community10 “Small Talk” interviews about their Skype
communication 10 Skype chat records to reflect upon Several “A-ha”s
The taste? Hmmm…
People regardless of their age use Skype in their everyday communication.They are approximately 3,5 years active users.Their Skype network is consisted of mainly friends, family and relatives, co-workers, people that they have met offline and know them personally.Some of them are stimulated to use Skype as a tool for business communication and some of them are restricted of doing that.They have the same account for private and business contacts…
“It’s always a risky business making simplistic explanations of, or generalizations about,
complex social phenomena like communication – especially those which neglect the
significance of human relationships.”(Thurlow, Lengel and Tomic, 2004)
