HCC: Small: From Local Ties to Transnational Connections: The Role of Computer-mediated Communication in Relational Maintenance

HCC：小：从本地联系到跨国联系：计算机介导的沟通在关系维护中的作用

• 批准号: 0917401
• 负责人: Paul Dourish
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917401&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Small; Local; Ties; Transnational

The United States is a multi-cultural society, where uses of communication technology have become ubiquitous and routine. Although there has been a substantial amount of research on computer-mediated communication, very little has been said on the issue of cultural differences in assessing the uses and interpretations of current technologies. The very ubiquity of social computing applications makes the study of cultural differences in their use for relational maintenance difficult. Focusing on environments where social relationships are paramount for survival and where computer-mediated communication applications are relatively limited in number can help us examine how cultural preferences, social needs and constraints of available infrastructure shape the use of computer-mediated communication for relational maintenance. The goal of this research is to make empirical and theoretical contributions to ongoing research on cultural differences in the use of computer-mediated communication through the investigations of the role of social media in transnational contexts. This research will also contribute to the development of theory of the basic processes underlying social relationships through empirical investigations of non-western relational maintenance practices.The results of this research will address how cultural differences can shape future development and design of human-centered computing applications and will enhance ongoing efforts to promote design and deployment of computer-mediated communication technologies in digitally nascent societies. By turning attention to the cultural contexts of technology use for relational maintenance, we also seek to engage with people whose perspectives are often unheard, including transnational migrants. Contextual study of Internet and social network site use is especially valuable in a culture that differs from the predominantly Western perspective that developed or provided templates for the development of the majority of current social computing applications.

美国是一个多元文化的社会，通信技术的使用已经变得无处不在和常规。虽然有大量的研究，以计算机为媒介的通信，很少有人说，在评估当前技术的使用和解释的文化差异的问题。社会计算应用程序的无处不在使得研究它们用于关系维护的文化差异变得困难。关注社会关系对生存至关重要的环境，以及计算机介导的通信应用程序数量相对有限的环境，可以帮助我们研究文化偏好，社会需求和现有基础设施的限制如何塑造使用计算机介导的通信来维护关系。本研究的目标是通过调查社交媒体在跨国背景下的作用，为正在进行的关于使用计算机介导通信的文化差异的研究做出经验和理论贡献。本研究还将通过对非西方关系维护实践的实证调查，为社会关系基本过程理论的发展做出贡献。本研究的结果将解决文化差异如何影响未来以人为中心的计算应用程序的开发和设计，并将加强正在进行的努力，以促进计算机应用程序的设计和部署。数字新生社会中的介导通信技术。通过将注意力转向技术用于关系维护的文化背景，我们还寻求与那些观点往往被忽视的人接触，包括跨国移民。互联网和社交网站使用的上下文研究是特别有价值的文化，从主要是西方的角度来看，开发或提供模板，为当前大多数社会计算应用程序的发展不同。