Communication Colloquium: Relationship development and social media: An affordances approach
Monday, November 21, 2016 1:30pm to 2:45pm
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Cornell University Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
http://communication.cals.cornell.edu/news-eventsIn this talk, Dr. Nicole Ellison will provide a short overview of the affordances approach, which she believe offers technology scholars a useful framework for theorizing about how platform characteristics shape social interaction, and describe a series of studies that investigate the role of anonymity, ephemerality, and broadcasting in communication processes. Specifically, she’ll describe work examining how Snapchat interactions are perceived by college students and some of the practices we speculate may be important for understanding the extent to which they are experienced as positive, supportive, and enjoyable. Dr. Ellison will then share research that explores a thin slice of activity we believe offers insight into social capital and relationship maintenance processes online: the broadcasting of requests for help via the Facebook status update feature. Finally, she will be sharing recent research on the benefits of anonymous interaction via ask.fm for adolescents, focusing on the positive outcomes of anonymity for relationship development and identity work.
Nicole B. Ellison is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the doctoral program. She has a PhD in Communication Theory and Research from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Her research addresses issues of social capital, relationship development, self-presentation, and identity in online environments such as Facebook and online dating sites. Her research on social media has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Most recently, she has studied the relationship between Facebook use and social capital processes, the use of social media in organizations, online dating participants’ self-presentational strategies, and the role of social media for supporting college-going activities among low-income and first-generation youth.
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