Online supportive interactions: Using a network approach to examine communication patterns within a psychosis social support group in Taiwan

Chang, Hui-Jung

doi:10.1002/asi.21070

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“…However, the range of density falls between .01 and .08, which is consistent with findings reported in previous studies of online social support groups (Chang, 2009). Yet although network density followed the expected direction as predicted by Hall's model (Wretch at .05 was larger than MySpace at .04), it did not differ significantly between the two SNSs.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

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Social networking friendships: A cross-cultural comparison of network structure between MySpace and Wretch

Chang

2010

Cultural Science Journal

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A cross-cultural comparison of social networking friendship between MySpace (in USA) and Wretch (in Taiwan) was conducted utilizing the high-and low-context framework proposed by Edward T. Hall (1976). Three network indicators were used to describe the network structure of both social network sites: size, density, and heterogeneity. Data were drawn from the forum "Jobs, Work, Careers" on MySpace and "Job-Related" on Wretch over a 2-month period from mid-October to mid-December in 2007. For each of the 2 sites, 6 users (3 men and 3 women) were randomly selected as sources or "seeds" from which to crawl the friendship networks. From the 6 seed users, a snowball sample was constructed by crawling 2 degrees out along the networks. The results indicated that Wretch, although it followed the expected direction predicted by Hall's model, did not have significantly larger and denser networks than MySpace. Finally, no differences in same-sex and cross-sex friendships were found between the 2 sites either. The overall findings are discussed with implications for future studies.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…In fact, Lewis et al (2008) reported that the average Facebook network density is .22. Chang (2009) found that the densities of most of online support groups ranged between .01 and .08. Compared to those reported in traditional face-to-face settings, online networks were relatively sparse.…”

Section: Network Densitymentioning

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Social networking friendships: A cross-cultural comparison of network structure between MySpace and Wretch

Chang

2010

Cultural Science Journal

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“…The ETs from Greater Taipei were selected via PTT (telnet://ptt.cc), the largest Bulletin Board System in the world (Chang, 2009). Experienced, in this study, refers to those teachers who have both experience teaching science and a master's degree in science education.…”

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A Comparison of Experienced and Preservice Elementary School Teachers’ Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge about Electric Circuits

Lin

2016

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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This study investigated the differences between Taiwanese experienced and preservice elementary school science teachers' content knowledge (CK) about electric circuits and their ability to predict students' preconceptions about electric circuits as an indicator of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). An innovative web-based recruitment and data collection technique were involved to purposeful collect samples totalling of 76 experienced teachers, 85 preservice teachers, and 438 students. Confidence assessment was used to assist in identifying alternative conceptions. Results indicated the experienced teachers possessed more acceptable CK with higher confidence than the preservice teachers. However, both groups' predictions of students' conceptions about electric circuits were not significantly different in two-thirds of the test items, and their learning experiences were the main source used to predict students' preconceptions. This study suggests establishing science teacher qualification to enhance preservice teachers' CK, and helping both preservice and inservice teachers become aware of their students' preconceptions were needed.

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“…Nurturant support posts provide expressions of caring or concern [30,33,34,38,47,48]. These are summarized in Table 3.…”

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Interaction Patterns of Nurturant Support Exchanged in Online Health Social Networking

Chuang¹,

Yang²

2012

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundExpressing emotion in online support communities is an important aspect of enabling e-patients to connect with each other and expand their social resources. Indirectly it increases the amount of support for coping with health issues. Exploring the supportive interaction patterns in online health social networking would help us better understand how technology features impacts user behavior in this context.ObjectiveTo build on previous research that identified different types of social support in online support communities by delving into patterns of supportive behavior across multiple computer-mediated communication formats. Each format combines different architectural elements, affecting the resulting social spaces. Our research question compared communication across different formats of text-based computer-mediated communication provided on the MedHelp.org health social networking environment.MethodsWe identified messages with nurturant support (emotional, esteem, and network) across three different computer-mediated communication formats (forums, journals, and notes) of an online support community for alcoholism using content analysis. Our sample consisted of 493 forum messages, 423 journal messages, and 1180 notes.ResultsNurturant support types occurred frequently among messages offering support (forum comments: 276/412 messages, 67.0%; journal posts: 65/88 messages, 74%; journal comments: 275/335 messages, 82.1%; and notes: 1002/1180 messages, 84.92%), but less often among messages requesting support. Of all the nurturing supports, emotional (ie, encouragement) appeared most frequently, with network and esteem support appearing in patterns of varying combinations. Members of the Alcoholism Community appeared to adapt some traditional face-to-face forms of support to their needs in becoming sober, such as provision of encouragement, understanding, and empathy to one another.ConclusionsThe computer-mediated communication format may have the greatest influence on the supportive interactions because of characteristics such as audience reach and access. Other factors include perception of community versus personal space or purpose of communication. These results lead to a need for further research.

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Online supportive interactions: Using a network approach to examine communication patterns within a psychosis social support group in Taiwan

Cited by 46 publications

References 35 publications

Social networking friendships: A cross-cultural comparison of network structure between MySpace and Wretch

Social networking friendships: A cross-cultural comparison of network structure between MySpace and Wretch

A Comparison of Experienced and Preservice Elementary School Teachers’ Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge about Electric Circuits

Interaction Patterns of Nurturant Support Exchanged in Online Health Social Networking

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