Social Media Elements, Ecologies, and Effects

Bayer, Joseph B.; Triệu, Penny; Ellison, Nicole B.

doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050944

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“…This limits the evidence base severely, as findings on single applications may demonstrate little generalizability over time (e.g., due to changes in design or popularity). Instead, identifying key features used for CMC in numerous applications (e.g., status updates, profiles, private messages) should be a more future-proof way to study channels (Bayer et al, 2020).…”

Section: Measuring Cmc and Social Media Usementioning

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Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review

Meier

Reinecke

2020

Communication Research

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Computer-mediated communication (CMC), and specifically social media, may affect the mental health (MH) and well-being of its users, for better or worse. Research on this topic has accumulated rapidly, accompanied by controversial public debate and numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Yet, a higher-level integration of the multiple disparate conceptual and operational approaches to CMC and MH and individual review findings is desperately needed. To this end, we first develop two organizing frameworks that systematize conceptual and operational approaches to CMC and MH. Based on these frameworks, we integrate the literature through a meta-review of 34 reviews and a content analysis of 594 publications. Meta-analytic evidence, overall, suggests a small negative association between social media use and MH. However, effects are complex and depend on the CMC and MH indicators investigated. Based on our conceptual review and the evidence synthesis, we devise an agenda for future research in this interdisciplinary field.

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Section: Measuring Cmc and Social Media Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review

Meier

Reinecke

2020

Communication Research

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“…For instance, classic types of CMC applications include email, chat rooms, or discussion boards, later joined by texting and instant messengers. More recently, applications that allow users to engage in interactions with both broad and narrow audiences have been defined under the labels of social media, with social network sites (SNS) often considered a sub-type of social media (see Bayer, Triệu, & Ellison, 2020, for a detailed discussion). Studying such types of applications provides more detail than the device level, as it avoids conflating CMC and non-CMC device use in a simplistic measure of "screen time".…”

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“…This limits the evidence base severely, as findings on single applications may demonstrate little generalizability over time (e.g., due to changes in design or popularity). Instead, identifying key features that allow CMC across applications (e.g., status updates, profiles, messaging) should be a more future-proof way to study channels (Bayer et al, 2020).…”

Section: Measuring Cmc and Social Media Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research should thus strive to develop measures that capture interaction and message characteristics independent of users' devices or applications. Besides (a) the low generalizability of the current channel-centered approach (Bayer et al, 2020), studying characteristics of interactions or messages (b) avoids technological determinism (i.e., social media as overall "good" or "bad"); (c) helps in clarifying whether one assumes effects to (3) Beyond illuminating conceptual approaches, our analysis shows that researchers have largely relied on technology-centered (e.g., time spent, frequency) rather than usercentered operational approaches (i.e., how or why a technology was used). However, both approaches have their pitfalls.…”

Section: Measuring Cmc and Social Media Usementioning

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Computer-mediated communication, social media, and mental health: A conceptual and empirical meta-review

Meier¹,

Reinecke²

2020

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Computer-mediated communication (CMC), and specifically social media, may affect the mental health (MH) and well-being of its users, for good or bad. Research on this topic has accumulated rapidly, accompanied by controversial public debate and numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Yet, a higher-level integration of the various disparate conceptual and operational approaches to CMC and MH and individual review findings is desperately needed. To this end, we first develop two organizing frameworks that systematize conceptual and operational approaches to CMC and MH. Based on these frameworks, we integrate the literature through a meta-review of 34 reviews and a content analysis of 594 publications. Meta-analytic evidence, overall, suggests a small negative association between social media use and MH. However, effects are complex and depend on the CMC and MH indicators investigated. Based on our conceptual review and the evidence synthesis, we devise an agenda for future research in this interdisciplinary field.

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“…The effects of the Internet and online communication and relatedness to friends and family need satisfaction remain unclear [35]. Previous studies have shown that internet and online communication are mainly linked to positive outcomes of relatedness to friends and family need satisfaction [36,37]. Few studies have demonstrated the opposite [25,38].…”

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Connected at Sea: The Influence of the Internet and Online Communication on the Well-Being and Life Satisfaction of Cruise Ship Employees

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Ariza-Montes

Perlines

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IJERPH

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This study aims to elucidate the idiosyncratic effects of the Internet and online communication on the well-being and life satisfaction of cruise ship employees. Cross-sectional surveys and covariance-based structural equation modelling tools were used. In addition, univariate variance analysis was used to address the effects of socio-demographic variables (years of service on a cruise ship, working department on a cruise ship, gender, age, educational level and place of residency) on latent variables of the conceptual model. The conceptual model draws on existing theory and previous research and was empirically tested on a sample of cruise ship employee internet users. Result show that while being onboard a cruise ship, employees experience strong social pressure to be constantly available and they fear of missing out on important information and life events. Thus, relatedness to friends and family needs satisfaction is of paramount importance for cruise ship employees because they are fully aware that they are dispensable and replaceable to cruise ship companies, however to their friends and family, they are indispensable and unique. Moreover, employees who engage in other tasks/activities while taking part in online communication with friends and family exhibit reduced performance, which leads to poor interaction and social dissatisfaction. Lastly, employees experiencing under-reciprocating exchanges show significant negative effects on their well-being. Overall, the results provided several important theoretical and practical implications relevant to cruise tourism and human resource management.The recent advancements in communication technologies have altered how human beings communicate and associate with one another [24]. The belief that free Internet is a moral human right [10] and should be provided to all seafarers, including cruise ship employees [5] has become increasingly popular. Internet access enhances our lives by providing free, instant, worldwide communication [10]; social network sites play central roles in our everyday activities [25] due to their capability to extend and connect social capital that has stimulating effects on personal psychological well-being [26]. Internet and online communication were introduced as a vision of a connected world where anybody could share experiences and feel less alone [27].

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Social Media Elements, Ecologies, and Effects

Cited by 232 publications

References 161 publications

Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review

Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review

Computer-mediated communication, social media, and mental health: A conceptual and empirical meta-review

Connected at Sea: The Influence of the Internet and Online Communication on the Well-Being and Life Satisfaction of Cruise Ship Employees

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