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Will social media strengthen or threaten romantic love? : Satu Uusiautti, Kaarina Määttä : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive Skip to main content.................... Abstract:Will social media strengthen or threaten romantic love?
Publication date 2017-10-01Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0
Topics social media, romantic relationship, online behavior, loveCollection opensourceLanguage EnglishThe
ways we represent our relationships, notice our partners, and let the social
media interfere in our romantic relationships have aroused researchers’
interest. In this research, the purpose was to analyze, how people who use
social media actively perceive the connection between social media and romantic
relationships. The research questions set for this study were: (1) What are the
rules of self-disclosure that support romantic relationships in social media?;
(2) What kinds of benefits do social media provide for romantic relationships?;
and (3) What kinds of threats or disadvantages do social media provide for
romantic relationships? This was a qualitative research in which the research
participants (N=25) were approached with an online questionnaire that included
open-ended questions. The answers were analyzed with the qualitative content analyzing
method. The findings showed that the research participants could name some
principles of self-disclosure regarding their romantic relationships in social
media and certain benefits as well as harms and threats of social media for a
romantic relationship. The findings were further discussed in the light of the
elements of love as emotions, love as actions, and love as skills and knowledge
that here could be interpreted as “the media literacy of romantic
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The ways we represent our relationships, notice our partners, and let the social media interfere in our romantic relationships have aroused researchers' interest. In this research, the purpose was to analyze, how people who use social media actively perceive the connection between social media and romantic relationships. The research questions set for this study were: (1) What are the rules of self-disclosure that support romantic relationships in social media?; (2) What kinds of benefits do social media provide for romantic relationships?; and (3) What kinds of threats or disadvantages do social media provide for romantic relationships? This was a qualitative research in which the research participants (N=25) were approached with an online questionnaire that included open-ended questions. The answers were analyzed with the qualitative content analyzing method. The findings showed that the research participants could name some principles of self-disclosure regarding their romantic relationships in social media and certain benefits as well as harms and threats of social media for a romantic relationship. The findings were further discussed in the light of the elements of love as emotions, love as actions, and love as skills and knowledge that here could be interpreted as "the media literacy of romantic relationships".
Keywords:
social media, romantic relationship, online behavior, love
Citations:
Uusiautti, Satu; Määttä , Kaarina (2017); Will social media strengthen or threaten romantic love?; Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS), Vol.6, No.4, pp:709-725; https://doi.org/10.25255/jss.2017.6.4.709.725.
