WhatsApp group as a shared resource for coping with political violence
The case of mothers living in an ongoing conflict area
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13012128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuval Roitman (0000-0002-2489-0314, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author), Daphna Yeshua-Katz (0000-0001-7976-1934, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-20 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobile Media & Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2050-1579 • E-ISSN: 2050-1587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20501579211021455 |
| OpenAlex | W3167340488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 40 |
In recent years, mobile media applications have become a significant resource for crisis communication and communal coping during natural disasters and wars. Drawing on communal coping and media affordance research, we examined the roles that a WhatsApp group plays for mothers living in an ongoing conflict area. We examined, through in-depth interviews, a local WhatsApp group operating in a community adjacent to the Israel–Gaza border. Findings revealed the unique emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies people use when facing ongoing threats. Four affordances—immediacy, reachability, mobility, and multimediality—contributed to WhatsApp’s role as a shared and ubiquitous coping resource. This study demonstrates the ways in which instant messaging communication affordances contribute to communal coping strategies in ongoing conflict areas
Affordance · Coping (psychology · Immediacy · Sociology · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |