Relational quality and media use in interpersonal relationships

Baym, Nancy K.; Zhang, Yan Bing; Kunkel, Adrianne; Ledbetter, Andrew M.; Lin, Mei‐Chen

doi:10.1177/1461444807080339

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“…For example, researchers found that mediated communication through telephone and the Internet neither improved nor detracted relational satisfaction and closeness [70]. Haythornthwaite [43] categorizes online exchanges as being as real as offline exchanges in terms of their impact on the tie and argues that it does not matter if the tie is maintained face-to-face or online, the relationship is what is important.…”

Section: New Media Use Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insights into New Media Use by International Students: Implications for Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory

Hendrickson¹,

Rosen²

2017

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The current study uses a longitudinal, mixed-method approach to investigate the role that new media, such as social networking sites and video chat, play in cross-cultural adaptation and international student friendship network development. Results indicate that international students significantly increase and adapt their new media use while abroad to communicate globally with their friends and family, and locally with their newly formed relationships. Furthermore, social networking site host national friends do not necessarily lead to the development of face-to-face host national friends; however, interaction with established face-to-face host national friends and friend groups via new media platforms leads to an increased understanding of host communication patterns. Finally, this study proposes that researchers who apply Kim's [1] cross-cultural adaptation theory consider incorporating Host New Media Communication as a principal concept.

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Section: New Media Use Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insights into New Media Use by International Students: Implications for Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory

Hendrickson¹,

Rosen²

2017

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“…Rice (2006) stated that women use the internet to get information about health more than men. Baym, Zhang, Kunkel, Ledbetter and Lin (2007) announced that women use the internet for the communication purpose more often than men.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They stated that both variables affect the use of the internet according to the data gained from 212 employees. Rice (2006) and Baym, Zhang Kunkel, Ledbetter and Lin (2007) stated that women use the internet more often than men in terms of the internet usage. Walter (2017) stated that different occupational groups might be affected differently by the use of ICT in the globalizing world.…”

Section: Importance Of the Internet For Employees And New Competenciementioning

confidence: 99%

Employee benefit status from e-employee service

Gündüz

Çoklar

2017

HumanSciences

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The internet is the one of the most important global network and information source in information age. The internet has changed employee's life enormously. The purpose of this study is to clarify the benefitting situations of employees from e-employee services. For this purpose, a 20-item data collection tool, based on the e-employee services put forward by the Information Council Turkey was developed. Maintained measurement tool was applied on 515 employees residing different regions and provinces of Turkey in the 2014 academic year. As a result, it was observed that employees benefitted from social, health and education oriented services of eemployee at "medium frequency", whereas they "rarely" benefitted from the economic-oriented services of e-employee. It was found that women used e-employee services more than men. 30-year of age and younger people used e-employee services more often than older people. In addition, those who have higher incomes use e-employee services more frequently than those who have medium or low incomes. Those working in education and finance sectors benefit from the eemployee services more often than those in other sectors.Keywords: E-employee; internet use; e-employee services; income; finance sector. IntroductionThe rapid developments occurring in information and communication, is increasing the use of the internet as well. Every day, the internet use is spreading everywhere, from education to finance, military to health and from the market place to entertainment industry. According to TurkStat data, internet use rate among the 19-74-age group reached to 48.9% in 2013 while it was 30% in 2007 in Turkey, a country with a population approaching 80 million. (TurkStat, 2013). This increase in a six -year period is remarkable. Considering the widespread use of mobile devices, the Internet is expected to affect the lives of people much more.The labour force participation rate In Turkey rated 50,1% with a 0,1 point increase in the December period of 2013 compared to the same period of the previous year. The labour force participation rate was 70.9 % in men and 29.9 % in women. While the distribution of the people who were employed in 2004 was 29.1% in agriculture, 20.0 % in industry, 4.9 % in construction and 46.0 % in service sector, this ratio fell nearly 6 points for agriculture whereas it increased 4 point for the service sector by the end of 2013. This rate for those who graduated from higher education institutions is 79.3%, for vocational high school graduates is 62.9 % , for high school graduates 51.6 %, for less than high school graduates is 47.4% and it was 18.7% for Illiterate types. 65.5% of workers were regular or casual employee, 4.4% employer; 18.7% Self-employed and 11.4% were the unpaid family workers. (TurkStat, 2013b).

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“…SMT, therefore, creates virtual social space that aid and encourage various interactions among persons of the world: global networking. Baym et al, (2007)'s study found that because of so many people having busy lives or having friends and relatives in the Diaspora, these sites have helped to keep contact with those individuals that students rarely saw. The social networking is so much in use that the current debate is no longer on whether social networking should play a role in education but has shifted to what social networking tools work best and how to deploy them (Digital Directions, June 16, 2010).…”

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The use of social media technology in universities: A case of Solusi University, Zimbabwe

Dlamini¹,

Ncube²,

Muchemwa³

2015

J. Media Commun. Stud.

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The twenty first century has witnessed a swift development in the production and usage of the Social Media Technology. Universities and other tertiary institutions have eagerly welcomed this development. However, a number of educationalists and material developers have foreseen the dangers of undue reliance and misuse of technology by these university students. This research wants to find out how productive do Solusi University students use the Social Media Technology. Questionnaires were distributed and collected from a randomly selected Solusi University student body (N=108) by the researchers. Data obtained from questionnaires was computed using the SPSS package. Results indicated that students were knowledgeable about the social media and they mainly used computers and mobile phones for their social media needs. Students mainly used the following social media types: social networks, for example, Facebook and MySpace; Social Search, for example, Google and Wikis for example Wikipedia. Findings also showed that students mainly used the social media for academic purposes and social communication, that is, what the social media is intended for. The step wise regression analysis showed a coefficient of .784 which is an indicator of a strong relationship between what the social media is ethically intended for and what it was used for by Solusi University students. An F value of 6.818 indicated that the regression was true and not by chance.

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Relational quality and media use in interpersonal relationships

Cited by 91 publications

References 47 publications

Insights into New Media Use by International Students: Implications for Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory

Insights into New Media Use by International Students: Implications for Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory

Employee benefit status from e-employee service

The use of social media technology in universities: A case of Solusi University, Zimbabwe

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