Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook.

This exploratory study investigates how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship would be influenced via communication on Facebook. It also examines how Facebook would influence the way both parent and child interact with each other. 17 parent-child pairs were interviewed. Parent and child were i...

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Main Authors: Goh, Tiffany Shimin., Lee, Weiyi.
Other Authors: Chen Hsueh-hua
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Language:English
Published: 2009
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-155112019-12-10T13:12:19Z Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook. Goh, Tiffany Shimin. Lee, Weiyi. Chen Hsueh-hua Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information National Youth Council DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women This exploratory study investigates how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship would be influenced via communication on Facebook. It also examines how Facebook would influence the way both parent and child interact with each other. 17 parent-child pairs were interviewed. Parent and child were interviewed separately. Findings reveal that intimacy was positively affected by factors such as a new range of common topics, mutual engagement of activities, online disclosure of information, as well as opportunities to communicate affection. Parent and child related to each other positively because of a deeper mutual trust, a connection of the two generations, equality, as well as a lack of policing behaviour by parents. Two new predictors of intimacy, online disclosure and transparency, were proposed. This led to a new perspective of intimacy, in that intimacy can still increase even in the absence of physical interaction between parent and child. Facebook was found to be a useful tool for parents to keep in touch with their children’s life without intruding on their privacy. Overall, findings suggest that the internet has become a new way for families to connect with each other as well as spend time together. The cues filtered out approach from the field of computer-mediated communication (CMC) explains how Facebook promotes a positive development of a parent-child relationship. The lack of nonverbal cues takes away feelings of awkwardness and facilitates communication of affection. This study further proposes that the equalization phenomenon can be applied to a parent-child relationship, and can be used to explain how communication on Facebook results in equality in the relationship. This is because the lack of social status cues propels both parent and child to communicate with each other as equal-leveled individuals on Facebook. This improves their relationship. Bachelor of Communication Studies 2009-05-07T08:15:03Z 2009-05-07T08:15:03Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15511 en Nanyang Technological University 65 p. application/pdf
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Goh, Tiffany Shimin.
Lee, Weiyi.
Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook.
description This exploratory study investigates how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship would be influenced via communication on Facebook. It also examines how Facebook would influence the way both parent and child interact with each other. 17 parent-child pairs were interviewed. Parent and child were interviewed separately. Findings reveal that intimacy was positively affected by factors such as a new range of common topics, mutual engagement of activities, online disclosure of information, as well as opportunities to communicate affection. Parent and child related to each other positively because of a deeper mutual trust, a connection of the two generations, equality, as well as a lack of policing behaviour by parents. Two new predictors of intimacy, online disclosure and transparency, were proposed. This led to a new perspective of intimacy, in that intimacy can still increase even in the absence of physical interaction between parent and child. Facebook was found to be a useful tool for parents to keep in touch with their children’s life without intruding on their privacy. Overall, findings suggest that the internet has become a new way for families to connect with each other as well as spend time together. The cues filtered out approach from the field of computer-mediated communication (CMC) explains how Facebook promotes a positive development of a parent-child relationship. The lack of nonverbal cues takes away feelings of awkwardness and facilitates communication of affection. This study further proposes that the equalization phenomenon can be applied to a parent-child relationship, and can be used to explain how communication on Facebook results in equality in the relationship. This is because the lack of social status cues propels both parent and child to communicate with each other as equal-leveled individuals on Facebook. This improves their relationship.
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Goh, Tiffany Shimin.
Lee, Weiyi.
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Lee, Weiyi.
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title Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook.
title_short Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook.
title_full Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook.
title_fullStr Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook.
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