Young People's Friendship and Love Relationships and Technology
New Practices of Intimacy and Rethinking Feminism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12499207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hsing-Chen Yang (0000-0001-6066-8510, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-124 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/12259276.2014.11666174 |
| OpenAlex | W2230139113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
For this study, I 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. I found that my 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
Control (management · Feeling · Feminism · Friendship · Negotiation · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Meeting at the Crossroads
A triangular theory of love.
The Gender-Technology Relation
Rethinking Friendship
Gender, Youth and Culture
Alone together
Heterosexuality in Question
Building Realities Less Limited Than Their Own
Ordinary Sex
Teenage Girls and Cellular Phones
Women's Empowerment in Building Disaster Resilient Communities
Stories about men implementing and resisting new technologies
Connected' Presence
Mobile Connections
Friendship, Sociology and Social Structure
Working out Intimacy
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |