Emerging modes of sociability

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Emerging modes of sociability
My project Young people and the interplay of
personal media identity, social interaction and
genres Today Social software? The significance
of mediated social interaction
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Interviews 3 interviews via MSN MessengerKai
17 year old from a small place 1 hour from
HaugesundJulia 17 years old from TrondheimIna
15 years old from Trondheim 4 interviews
face-to-face, all from OsloOne group interview
with 4 girls 15 and 16 years oldIda 16
yearsLinnea 18 yearsHenrik 18 years All
interviews lasted between 1,5 and 2 hours
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Emerging modes of sociability

• Point of departure
• What characterises mediated interaction among
  teenagers?
• What social significance does mediated
  interaction have?
• First question quantitative methods?
• Second question qualitative methods necessary.

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• Handfull of studies (all 2004)
• Virpi Oksman og Jussi Tartiainen Mobile
  communication as a social stage. Meanings of
  mobile communication in everyday life among
  teenagers in Finland
• Samantha Henderson og Michael GildingIve never
  clicked this much with anyone in my life trust
  and hyperpersonal communication in online
  friendships
• Rich Ling The mobile connection. The cell
  phones impact on society
• Leila Torgersen Ungdoms digitale hverdag

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Oksman og Tartiainen
Point of departure Does communication through
new media technologies create new forms of social
interaction? What are the social consequences of
the increased significance of mediated
interaction? Results Mediated interaction
greater control over presentations of
self Pragmatical use Digtial media are
important when learning to know new people
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Henderson og Gilding
Point of departure Piotr Sztompka trust in
hyperpersonal communication is low because of
anonymity and distance What then explains why
people open up in social relations? Results
Trust created through reputation
performance reciprocal disclosure
situational factors
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Ling
Point of departure What are the social
consequences of the mobile phone? Keywords Micro
-coordnination Emancipation Symbolic meanings
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Torgersen
Point of departure Mapping the use of digital
communication forms among upper secondary school-
and highschool pupils in Norway. Results Quantit
ative analyses the more teenagers use computer
mediated communiation the more social they are
offline as well. Yet heavy users of SMS and
chat lifestyle oriented towards going out, more
alcohol, sexually experienced, more depressive
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Aspects that I like to illuminate

• The pragmatic use and interplay of communication
  media
• The significance of mediated communication forms
  in the process of extending social circles
• The relations between f2f and mediated
  communication

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Emerging modes of sociability
Interviews 3 interviews via MSN MessengerKai
18 year old from a small place 1 hour from
HaugesundJulia 17 years old from TrondheimIna
15 years old from Trondheim 4 interviews
face-to-face, all from OsloOne group interview
with 4 girls 15 and 16 years odlIda 16
yearsLinnea 18 yearsHenrik 18 years All
interviews lasted between 1,5 and 2 hours
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1. Interplay
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2. Social circles
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3. Online/offline
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