Artikel
Young people’s friendship and love relationships and technology : new practices of intimacy and rethinking feminism
Verfasst von:
Yang, Hsing-Chen
in:
Asian journal of women's studies
2014
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Heft:
1
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93 - 124 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Yang, Hsing-Chen |
| In: | Asian journal of women's studies |
| Jahr: | 2014 |
| Heft: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| For this study, Hsing-Chen Yang adopted a qualitative research design and did semi- structured in-depth interviews with 14 university students regarding their experiences of friendship and love to investigate how new technologies have affected their intimate relationship practices. She found that her respondents employed connectivity technology to control the extent to which they invested financial, time-based, and emotional costs in friendships. They maintained a “thin and simple” emotional connection, which is also a type of intimacy, with most of their friends. In social networks, demonstrating “who I am” and categorizing of friends, has comprised a digital life strategy necessary for controlling emotional costs. Furthermore, digital connections satisfied these students’ needs for and imaginings regarding friendship and love and they performed caring or other types of close associations through the characteristics of “connected presence.” Finally, students employed digital writing to announce their love or relationship statuses, confess or profess their feelings, communicate, follow others, and repel pursuit from third parties. In particular, the female students adopted connectivity technology to create a personal erotic space and used Facebook as a platform for interacting with third parties, thereby enhancing their negotiation abilities. However, regarding love relationships, issues related to privacy rights and relationship boundary control, engendered by connectivity technology, are new topics that young students face, negotiate, and contemplate seriously. The findings of this study provided further insight into and reflection on discourse regarding feminism and intimate relationships. | |
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