Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study

Nie, Norman H.; Hillygus, D. Sunshine; Erbring, Lutz

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“…While arguments about social life on the Internet have suggested that it may lead to social isolation [15,20,23], or, at best, weak social ties [7], it is common for WoW players to play with offline friends and family. Playing together includes grouping, sharing items, chatting, and exploring.…”

Section: Offline Social Connection Through World Of Warcraftmentioning

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Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft

Nardi

Harris

2009

International Handbook of Internet Research

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We analyze collaborative play in an online video game, World of Warcraft, the most popular personal computer game in the United States, with significant markets in Asia and Europe. Based on an immersive ethnographic study, we describe how the social organization of the game and player culture affect players' enjoyment and learning of the game. We discovered that play is characterized by a multiplicity of collaborations from brief informal encounters to highly organized play in structured groups. The variety of collaborations makes the game more fun and provides rich learning opportunities. We contrast these varied collaborations, including those with strangers, to the "gold standard" of Gemeinschaft-like communities of close relations in tightknit groups. We suggest populations for whom similar games could be designed.

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Section: Offline Social Connection Through World Of Warcraftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft

Nardi

Harris

2009

International Handbook of Internet Research

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“…This concern was based on three main arguments. First, the more time people spend using the internet during leisure time, the more time has to be detracted from social activities like communicating with friends, neighbours and family members (Nie 2001, Nie et al 2002, Gershuny 2003, Wellman et al 2006. These studies date back to just shortly before the explosion of online networking, and they could not differentiate between pure entertainment and social activities.…”

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“…This evolution makes any comparison between the internet and TV anachronistic. Second, the internet allows users to conduct many daily transactions such as shopping or banking online from home (Nie et al 2002, Franzen 2003. The supporters of this argument suggest that to shop and carry out a number of tasks without leaving home may reduce face to face interaction.…”

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See you on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction in the evolution of social capital

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Sabatini

Sodini

2012

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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Empirical studies have documented a decline in indicators of social participation in the last decades. The responsibility of social disengagement has been often attributed to pervasive busyness and the rising pressure of time. In this paper we argue that computer-mediated interaction, and particularly online networking, can help mitigate this downward trend. We develop a logical framework for assessing the role of the internet in the evolution of social participation. We analyze an economy where agents can develop their social interactions through two main modes of participation, one encompassing both online networking and face to face interactions, and another solely based on physical encounters. We study the interdependence between the rise in the pressure of time and the variation in the relative performance of the two strategies of participation.

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“…The main argument shared by Internet skeptics was based on the presumption that the more time people spend using the Internet during leisure time, the more time has to be detracted from social activities (Katz et al 2001;Nie et al 2002, Attewel et al 2003Gershuny 2003;Robinson and Martin 2010). However, studies emphasizing the negative correlation between Internet usage and sociability date back to just shortly before the explosion of online networking, and they could not differentiate between pure entertainment and social activities 6 .…”

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Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era

2013

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The objective of this paper is to theoretically analyze how human interaction may evolve in a world characterized by the explosion of online networking and other Web-mediated ways of building and nurturing relationships. The analysis shows that online networking yields a storage mechanism through which any individual contribution -e.g. a blog post, a comment, or a photo -is stored within a particular network and ready for virtual access by each member who connects to the network. When someone provides feedback, for example by commenting on a note, or by replying to a message, the interaction is finalized. These interactions are asynchronous, i.e. they allow individuals to relate in different moments, whenever they have time to. When the social environment is poor of participation opportunities and/or the pressure on time increases (for example due to the need to increase the working time), the stock of information and ties stored in the Internet can help individuals to defend their sociability.

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Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study

Cited by 314 publications

References 5 publications

Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft

Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft

See you on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction in the evolution of social capital

Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era

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