Personal Network Maintenance, Face-to-Face Interaction, and Distance
Personal Network Maintenance, Face-to-Face Interaction, and Distance
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个人网络维护、面对面互动、距离
DOI：
10.3141/2231-15
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
J. Carrasco
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作者：
J. Carrasco
以文献中关于信息和通信技术(ICT)在社会活动旅行中的互补作用的普遍共识为出发点，本文重点讨论了不同媒体(面对面、电话、基于互联网)在个人网络维护中的相互作用，并特别关注距离和社会经济学的相关性。通过一种明确的社会结构方法，社交网络被设想为人们用来保持社交联系的个人通信系统。这项研究使用了最近在智利康塞普西翁收集的数据，重点关注了两个因收入水平而与众不同的社区。这项研究考察了信息和通信技术的可用性和使用、面对面互动的频率以及距离的作用之间的相互作用。采用定量方法，通过确定距离的作用、自我和变化者的关键特征以及它们所在的个人网络，研究信息和通信技术补充面对面互动的具体背景。[作者将“Alter”定义为“社会接触”。--Ed研究结果表明，在控制了人口统计学因素后，电话和互联网在角色、距离、关系的长短、年龄和性别的同质性等方面根据自我改变关系的不同而具有特定的功能。因此，信息和通信技术在社会活动中的互补作用受到这些互动发生的社会背景的影响，并突出了社会关系所在的空间、社会经济和社会结构的特殊性的相关性。
Taking as a departing point the general agreement in the literature about the complementary role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social activity travel, the paper focuses on the interplay between different media (face to face, telephone, Internet based) in personal network maintenance, with a special focus on the relevance of distance and socioeconomics. Through an explicit social-structure approach, social networks were conceived of as personal communication systems that people would use to stay socially connected. Using data gathered recently in Concepción, Chile, the study focused on two neighborhoods distinctive because of their income levels. The study examined the interplay between ICT availability and use, the frequency of face-to-face interaction, and the role of distance. Quantitative methods were used to study the specific contexts in which ICT complements face-to-face interaction by identifying the role of distance and key characteristics of egos and alters and the personal networks in which they are embedded. [The author defines “alter” as “social contact.” —Ed.] The results suggest that, after controlling for demographics, telephone and Internet have specialized functions, depending on the ego–alter relationship in aspects such as roles, distance, length of the relationship, and age and gender homophily. Therefore, the complementary effect of ICT in social activities is mediated by the social context in which these interactions occur and highlights the relevance of the particularities of the spatial, socioeconomic, and social structure in which social relations are embedded.