Week 8 F08
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Week 8
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[edit] Week 8
- Notes
- Proposal/Outline due 10/20
- Digital Traces assignment cancelled
- Reading
[edit] Prompt reading
[edit] Exercise - Your Use of Relational Technology
Remembering the name generator:
On a sheet of paper, list 3 people (First name, Last initial) who match the following criteria:
- Your best friends
- Your best online friends (frequency/quality of communication)
- People you've met offline, and continued the relationship online
- People who you've met online, taking the friendship offline
- People you keep up with who you wouldn't without technology
Reflecting on the people you studied and the people in your name generator, reflect on the following:
- What tools are you using?
- Who are you connecting with (where do these people fit on the name generator)?
- Surprises?
- Unwanted Relationships?
- Local Relationships increasingly mediated by technology?
- Strategies for relationship management
- How do you filter communication partners?
- How do you engage with new partners?
- How has technology affected the relationships?
- And is this the right question? (i.e. Other effects - Distance, Time, etc.)
[edit] Transitions and Information Needs
(Sorry, this is a lecture stub. PPT to come)
- Relational Formation (i.e. Friendship) - 4 factors
- Physical Proximity/Propinquity
- Role of organizations, work, clubs, school, etc.
- Individual Factors
- Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
- Dislike/Disregard
- Attractiveness
- Social Skills
- Responsiveness
- Similarity
- Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
- Situational Factors
- Possibility of Future Interaction
- Frequency of Exposure
- Outcome Dependency
- Availability
- Dyadic Factors
- Reciprocity of Liking
- Self-Disclosure
- Trust
- Physical Proximity/Propinquity
- Relationships as Social Support
- SS is based on social interaction, is delivered through the conduction of personal relations.
- Types of support - Problem solving and Emotional Adjustment
- Instrumental Support
- Tangible Aid
- Informational Support
- Emotional Support
- Attachment
- Network Support
- Esteem Support
- Instrumental Support
- Types of support - Problem solving and Emotional Adjustment
- How do technologies of relationships expand informational and network support?
- Mobilizing Social Support
- Social support mobilized many ways - including in conversation
- Talk is situated action, as well as a social and strategic action
- Talk perpetuates the sense of the relationships
- Perceived and Received Support
- Perceived: A psychological sense of support
- Received: Concrete instances of helping
- Solicited and Unsolicited Support
- Sol/Unsol are different processes
- Solicited support has costs (esteem)
- Nature of the stressor may determine type of support
- Nature of the relationship may as well
- The best support(?)
- A social network that is responsive without being asked
- Asking for support - a sign the network is failing?
- Maintaining relationships with communication
- Keeping a relationship in existence
- Keeping a relationship in a specified state or condition
- Keeping a relationship in satisfactory condition
- Keeping a relationship in repair
- Theoretical Approaches to Relationship Maintenance
- Social Exchange Theories (Interdependence Model, Equity Theory, Investment Model)
- Relational Dialectics (Dynamics and Praxis)
- Interactional Approaches (Continuity Theories)
- Maintenance by expression
- Maintaining the social forces that hold relationships together
- Metacommunication
- Affinity maintenance
- What about nonvoluntary or relationships with disliked others?
- Theories of Transitions
- Losses and Mobility
- Interruptions and Transition
- Changes in Status, Rank and Mood
- Control and Vulnerability
