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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 203-232 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | Human development |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Abstract
This paper applies "extensive sequential analyses" as described by Oevermann in 1996 to a personal account posted on the MTV website A Thin Line (ATL), to the respective anonymous responses posted by account readers and to the website as the pragmatic framework of this interaction. This analysis shows that interactive websites are understood as social spaces where one can find a counterpart for intimate, socialization-relevant interaction. This means that a large amount of confidence is placed in the Internet and social media to provide new possibilities for the discussion of central personal life issues. Beyond the reconstruction of this transformation of social reality, this analysis enables the quality of this interaction that competes with traditional socialization contexts to be judged. P, a 17-year-old girl, is able to control the communication of her private problems in a new way through the use of digital interaction structures, filtering the interaction. The anonymous counterparts are assured by the character limits that they only have to participate superficially and without any major involvement. In the case of traditional instances of socialization, such an unattached and filtered interaction is already an expression of its failure. The Internet-based interaction analyzed here lacks key qualities of socialization interaction.
Keywords
- Adolescence, Development, Digital media, Digital socialization, Digital youth, Limits of digital communication, Objective hermeneutics, Reconstructive methods, Social web, Socialization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
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In: Human development, Vol. 60, No. 5, 2017, p. 203-232.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Digital Socialization? An Exploratory Sequential Analysis of Anonymous Adolescent Internet-Social Interaction
AU - Zizek, Boris
N1 - Funding information: The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the research funding of Gutenberg University Mainz allowed me to work as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with Prof. Robert L. Selman. The present study was carried out during my stay at Harvard Graduate School of Education. I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to the DFG, Gutenberg University, and Robert L. Selman as host and supervisor of the study.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper applies "extensive sequential analyses" as described by Oevermann in 1996 to a personal account posted on the MTV website A Thin Line (ATL), to the respective anonymous responses posted by account readers and to the website as the pragmatic framework of this interaction. This analysis shows that interactive websites are understood as social spaces where one can find a counterpart for intimate, socialization-relevant interaction. This means that a large amount of confidence is placed in the Internet and social media to provide new possibilities for the discussion of central personal life issues. Beyond the reconstruction of this transformation of social reality, this analysis enables the quality of this interaction that competes with traditional socialization contexts to be judged. P, a 17-year-old girl, is able to control the communication of her private problems in a new way through the use of digital interaction structures, filtering the interaction. The anonymous counterparts are assured by the character limits that they only have to participate superficially and without any major involvement. In the case of traditional instances of socialization, such an unattached and filtered interaction is already an expression of its failure. The Internet-based interaction analyzed here lacks key qualities of socialization interaction.
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KW - Adolescence
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KW - Limits of digital communication
KW - Objective hermeneutics
KW - Reconstructive methods
KW - Social web
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SN - 0018-716X
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