Book contents
- Relating Through Technology
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Relating Through Technology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Social Ecology and Personal Media
- 2 The Social Construction of Technology
- 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Personal Media and Relationships
- 4 Niche, Media Displacement, and Multimodal Relationships
- 5 Mode Comparison and Coexistence
- 6 Three Ways of Seeing Social Media
- 7 Five Enduring Tensions in Personal Media
- 8 Digital Stress
- 9 Social Displacement
- 10 Connectivity and Connection
- References
- Index
1 - Social Ecology and Personal Media
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 June 2020
- Relating Through Technology
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Relating Through Technology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Social Ecology and Personal Media
- 2 The Social Construction of Technology
- 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Personal Media and Relationships
- 4 Niche, Media Displacement, and Multimodal Relationships
- 5 Mode Comparison and Coexistence
- 6 Three Ways of Seeing Social Media
- 7 Five Enduring Tensions in Personal Media
- 8 Digital Stress
- 9 Social Displacement
- 10 Connectivity and Connection
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter introduces the idea that relationships are a fundamental component of human nature, but there is a limit on the number of relationship partners humans can have and maintain. This chapter introduces the idea of the core network (or the two to five most important people in your life), the first fifteen (i.e., the primary members of your personal network), and two outer layers of relationship closeness. This chapter explains why social interactions are a valuable unit of analysis for studying relationships, and why both personal relationships and social interactions are important contexts for the study of mobile and social media. This chapter introduces a relationship-centered approach to understanding media and presents assumptions about why relationships are important and how media is in the service of those relationships.
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- Relating Through TechnologyEveryday Social Interaction, pp. 13 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020