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NETWORKED INDIVIDUALISM: Connected or Isolated?
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By Kelsey Ra6e
“We are experiencing a ‘triple revolution’ wrought by the advent of broadband Internet access, social networks, and mobile technologies.”
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-‐ Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social OperaGng System
“The mutually reinforcing and accelerating nature of these technologies is shifting the center of gravity in how we organize as a society.”
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-‐ Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social OperaGng System
Institutions—both formal, such as schools, and informal, such as families—were once at the center of our societies.
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-‐ Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social OperaGng System
Now each of us, with our smartphones, is connecting across and within institutional boundaries.
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-‐ Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social OperaGng System
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Internet users continue to spend more time with social media sites than any other type of site. – Nielson, The Social Media Report 2012
“Where we once organized our communities, work, family, educational, and governance systems around institutions…
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…we are increasingly navigating the world as connected individuals.”
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-‐ Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social OperaGng System
Not near your loved ones?
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It is no longer difficult to call home.
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They’re only a click away…
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It’s child’s play.
“Momma”
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Thirty-two percent of online adults age 65+ use social networking sites, presumably to stay in touch with their friends, children and grandchildren. -‐ PEW Internet: Social Networking
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While social networking can expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the offline world, it cannot replace them.
-‐ Cheryl Coyle &Heather Vaughn, Networking: CommunicaGon RevoluGon
or EvoluGon?
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‘Social networks’ existed long before the age of the Internet.
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The need to bond emotionally with others in ‘social networks’ was studied by Harlow in 1958.
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-‐ Harry Harlow, The Nature of Love
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Today, there is much speculation about the meaningfulness of human interactions created by social media.
“We live in an accelerating contradiction: the more connected we become, the lonelier we are.
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-‐ Stephen Marche, Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? ”
“It is clear that social interaction matters. Loneliness and being alone are not the same thing, but both are on the rise…
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We meet fewer people. We gather less. And when we
gather, our bonds are less meaningful and
less easy.”
-‐ Stephen Marche, Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
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The question of the future is this: Is Social Networking part of CONNECTING or ISOLATING?
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The answer will depend
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on how we use these
technologies.
“Facebook is merely a tool and like any tool, its effectiveness will depend on its user.”
-‐ John Cacioppo, as cited in Stephen Marche, Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
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Technology sure has come a long way…
“…but the very MAGIC of the new machines, the efficiency and elegance with which they serve us, obscures what isn’t being served: everything that matters.” -‐ Stephen Marche, Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
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“What Facebook has revealed about human nature—and this is not a minor revelation—is that a CONNECTION is not the same thing as a BOND.”
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-‐ Stephen Marche, Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
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CONNECTED or ISOLATED?
In this age of networked individualism, it is our choice. Wisely used, online connections can strengthen bonds we already have…but used alone, can lead us on an isolated path.
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References Stephen Marche, Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? hQp://www.theatlanGc.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-‐facebook-‐making-‐us-‐lonely/308930/ Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social OperaGng System, Reviewed By Lucy Bernholz, Fall 2012 hQp://www.ssireview.org/book_reviews/entry/i_you_we Harry Harlow, 1958. The Nature of Love hQp://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Harlow/love.htm hQp://pewinternet.org/Commentary/2012/March/Pew-‐Internet-‐Social-‐Networking-‐full-‐detail.aspx Cheryl L. Coyle and Heather Vaughn, Social Networking: CommunicaGon RevoluGon or EvoluGon? Bell Labs Technical Journal 13(2), 13–18 (2008) © 2008 Alcatel-‐Lucent. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) hQp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bltj.20298/pdf hQp://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/reports-‐downloads/2012-‐Reports/The-‐Social-‐Media-‐Report-‐2012.pdf