Socially Interactive Technologies and Teenagers’ Peer Social Networks:
An Empirical Study Based on SNA Paradigm
ZHANG Mingxin, LIU Yusi
Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (7) : 37-50.
Socially Interactive Technologies and Teenagers’ Peer Social Networks:
An Empirical Study Based on SNA Paradigm
New communication technologies will help to define and shape teenagers’ relationships with their
peers. It is also a social procedure which will deeply impose influence on them. This research focus
on how the peer social network with SITs might affect their friendships. Our data disclosed that SITs
promoted teenagers’ social interaction and enriched their social network. Nonetheless, there is different
power resource distribution compared with their real social networks. At the same time, the real network
index of teenagers being investigated mostly decides the associated SITs network index. We found out
the methodological value of SNA paradigm in effect research of new media. And we also explored thepotentiality of developing new theory with comparison of different hypothesis.
This paper is a part of the research project “Multi-disciplinary Research on Social Media”, supported by “the
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” and “the Social Media Creation Research Funds for
the Academic Group Construction Plan for the Scholars after 1970s of Wuhan University ”.
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