Group 3: Degradation in real-life friendship
From INLS 490
[edit] Degradation in real-life friendship
- 5 arguments supporting the controversy
- Online friendships - lack of actual experience vs. real world exp
- Harder to understand chemistry/connections between individual
- Maintaining superficial friendships through OSn - limited benefit
- OSN redefines intimacy/nature of friendship
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- 5 arguments refuting the controversy
- OSN negate distance between established connections
- OSN improve communication/networking/events
- OSN enable minority/disenfranchised populations to connect with one another
- Possibly reinforce real world friendship by illustrating differences between RW/Online
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- A research question and a brief outline of how you might study the controversy
- RQ: Difference between existing connections and OSN-established connections, effects of OSN use on these connections.
- Potential study: Survey, qualitative interviews