Excellent online friendships: an Aristotelian defense of social media

Elder, Alexis M.

doi:10.1007/s10676-014-9354-5

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“…), creating by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian federation, student associations of universities and another interested institutions. The form of the project is not accidental-social networks are today one of the effective modes of communication in the youth sphere stimulating the exchange of ideas and self-organization of communicants (Elder, 2014).…”

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Development of Communication among the Members of the Youth Policy

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Rybakova²,

Smyshlyaeva³

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The article describes the main activities of Mari State University (city Yoshkar-Ola) to create the homogeneous cultural space under the youth policy. One of such activity was the creation of the united information and communication portal "Muraveynik" ("Anthill") on the basis of the university, which purpose is the consolidation of Russian students in the united information social and cultural space. Based on the successful experience of the realization of information and communication projects in Mari State University, it is instructive to spread this model of interaction on the national basis. The given resource has to unite all the information related to the realization of the youth policy in the country and allows the youth and the students to orient effectively by choosing educational, professional, leisure strategies of the youth. The article also deals with the experience of the youth policy, the social studies, the volunteering in Mari State University which allowed to apply successfully the latest technologies for the purposes of the social integration of the region and the country as a whole. The group of the authors is the direct creator and coordinator of the presented model of the social and cultural, communicative interaction in the youth and the students space and hopes to find the associates to create safe, tolerant, high-technology information space to secure the cooperation among different universities and countries.

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Development of Communication among the Members of the Youth Policy

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Rybakova²,

Smyshlyaeva³

et al. 2015

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“…What do I mean when I say that robots can be our virtue friends? The idea is widely debated and discussed, particularly in relation to the impact of technology on friendship (Elder 2014(Elder , 2015(Elder & 2017Kaliarnta 2016;Froding and Peterson 2012). It comes from books eight and nine of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle 2009;Costello 2015).…”

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The Philosophical Case for Robot Friendship

Danaher

2019

Journal of Posthuman Studies

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“…For example, the requirement for friends to spend physically time together was an absolute necessity in Aristotle's time, since two friends that were geographically apart could not engage in discussion with each other, nor could they experience new things together. Nowadays, this something that is possible, with the help of the internet and its various applications (Baym 2010;Boyd 2014;Bülow and Felix 2014;Elder 2014;Wittkower 2012).…”

Section: Loss Of the 'Shared Life' Between Online Friends: Arguments mentioning

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“…More importantly, other philosophers such as Elder (2014) have used the Aristotelian theory of friendship in order to claim the opposite: that social media actually can facilitate the development of virtue friendships online. Elder argues that social media actually preserve important human values such as playfulness, exchange of ideas and reasoning.…”

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Using Aristotle’s theory of friendship to classify online friendships: a critical counterview

Kaliarnta

2016

Ethics Inf Technol

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Excellent online friendships: an Aristotelian defense of social media

Cited by 37 publications

References 20 publications

Development of Communication among the Members of the Youth Policy

Development of Communication among the Members of the Youth Policy

The Philosophical Case for Robot Friendship

Using Aristotle’s theory of friendship to classify online friendships: a critical counterview

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