The Evolution of Social Ties in the Age of the Internet

互联网时代社会关系的演变

• 批准号: 0208900
• 负责人: Robert Kraut
• 金额: $ 48.38万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0208900&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Evolution; Social; Ties; Age; Internet

This research investigates the ways geographic mobility and communications, including computer-mediated communication, influence the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of personal and work relationships and the ways these factors influence people's ability to extract social resources from them. Maintaining personal relationships requires significant investment in time and money. Physical proximity makes building personal relationships easier, while geographic mobility puts relationships at risk. Large numbers of Americans are now using the Internet, with electronic mail and other services for interpersonal communication. The Internet can potentially reduce the constraints that geography imposes on social relationships. It may also influence the quality of relationships conducted online. This research examines whether use of Internet communication changes the number and quality of social relationships and the social support derived from them. By examining the content of communication conducted over different modalities (visits, phone calls, email and instant messaging), it will help identify the mechanisms through which communication leads to social support. The research will simultaneously be of interest to social scientists concerned with the basic processes underlying social and work relationships and to more applied researchers and policy makers interested in the impact of the Internet on social life.

本研究调查的方式，地理流动性和通信，包括计算机为媒介的通信，影响个人和工作关系的形成，维护和解散，以及这些因素影响人们的能力，从中提取社会资源的方式。维持人际关系需要大量的时间和金钱投入。地理上的接近使建立个人关系更容易，而地理上的流动性使关系处于危险之中。大量的美国人现在正在使用互联网，通过电子邮件和其他服务进行人际交流。互联网可以潜在地减少地理对社会关系的限制。 它还可能影响在线关系的质量。本研究旨在探讨使用互联网沟通是否会改变社会关系的数量和质量以及由此产生的社会支持。 通过审查以不同方式（访问、电话、电子邮件和即时消息）进行的沟通的内容，它将有助于确定沟通导致社会支持的机制。这项研究将同时引起关心社会和工作关系基本过程的社会科学家的兴趣，并引起对互联网对社会生活的影响感兴趣的更多应用研究人员和决策者的兴趣。