Cultural Differences in Garnering Social Capital on Facebook: French People Prefer Close Ties and Americans Prefer Distant Ties

Brown, Genavee; Michinov, Nicolas

doi:10.1080/17475759.2017.1387166

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“…Tied with the previous subtopic as the third most researched, Cultural differences had 16 studies from 10 papers. A total of 11 studies focused on the distinctions between online social networking site users of different countries and how each cultivates bonding social capital, specifically, Chinese, French, and Korean users versus their American counterparts (Brown and Michinov, 2017; Choi et al, 2011; Chu and Choi, 2010a, 2010b) and Australian users versus Korean users (Lee et al, 2016). Differences between the various cultures were shown to be significant, but not necessarily favoring one country over another regarding nurturing bonding social capital.…”

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“…Differences between the various cultures were shown to be significant, but not necessarily favoring one country over another regarding nurturing bonding social capital. Brown and Michinov (2017) showed that there is indeed a difference in the cultivation of bonding social capital between French and American users, but the intensity of those ties varies. Choi et al (2011) showed equal amounts of bonding social capital on online social networking sites between Korean and American users, whereas Chu and Choi (2010a, 2010b) demonstrate contradicting outcomes between Chinese users and American: one study showing the former with more bonding social capital cultivation, and the other showing the latter with the greater amount.…”

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The use of online social networking sites to nurture and cultivate bonding social capital: A systematic review of the literature from 1997 to 2018

Williams

2019

New Media & Society

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Any social phenomenon with more than a billion participants daily is ripe for investigation into the implications of social capital. This research conducts a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature and conference material published between 1 January 1997 and 31 March 2018 regarding the question, can the use of online social networking sites cultivate and nurture an individual’s bonding social capital? The systematic review using EBSCOhost, EndNote, and final manual review process has aggregated 54 articles containing 116 distinct studies resulting in 85 answering in the affirmative to the research question. These studies are coded into a 13-category framework to provide a roadmap to future researchers. The results are wide and varied providing data from large and small groups. Generalization of the results supports the research question in that individual bonding social capital can be cultivated and nurtured via use of online social networking sites.

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The use of online social networking sites to nurture and cultivate bonding social capital: A systematic review of the literature from 1997 to 2018

Williams

2019

New Media & Society

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“…This finding suggests that teens are substituting computer‐mediated communication for in‐person communication when it is not possible to hang out with friends in person. Additionally, young adults attending university have been found to use computer‐mediated communication to stay in touch with friends from high school when seeing them frequently in‐person is not possible (Brown & Michinov, 2017; Yang & Brown, 2013). Furthermore, Chinese international students use technology to stay in touch with both family and friends when they move to the U.S. and visiting home is not feasible (Cemalcilar, Falbo, & Stapleton, 2005; Kline & Liu, 2005).…”

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Staying connected during stay‐at‐home: Communication with family and friends and its association with well‐being

Brown

Greenfield

2021

Human Behav and Emerg Tech

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COVID‐19 and the resulting stay‐at‐home orders issued to reduce the spread of the virus created a novel social situation in which people could not spend in‐person time with their family and friends. Thus, emerging technologies like video calling and other forms of mediated communication like voice calling and text messaging became important resources for people to stay in touch. The purpose of this study was threefold. First, we wanted to test whether people would use more mediated communication (video calls, voice calls, text messaging) to stay in touch during the stay‐at‐home order. Second, we wanted to see if increased mediated communication would be positively associated with well‐being. Finally, we explored whether mediated communication was related to age. To answer these questions, we surveyed 2092 participants who answered questions online about how their use of video calls, voice calls, and text messaging and their well‐being had changed since the stay‐at‐home order. Our results show that people increased their use of mediated communication, particularly video calling; and increases in mediated communication with close others, particularly friends, was related to higher levels of well‐being. Finally, we found that age was related only to the use of video calling; younger people tended to use more video calling. These findings support the compensatory theory of technology use, that people use technologically mediated communication to maintain contact with their close friends and family when in‐person contact is not possible, and that this form of contact, when in‐person interaction is unavailable, is associated with positive outcomes.

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“…The degree to which young people use social media to build large networks of bridging social capital varies around the world and depends on other relational structures in their cultural contexts. Research has shown that in social contexts outside the USA where it is less normative to sever old ties and form new ones such as in France (Brown & Michinov, 2017), Japan (Thomson et al, 2015), South Korea (Cho, 2010), and among Palestinians in Israel (Abbas & Mesch, 2015), adolescents and emerging adults tend to use social media to construct smaller and more intimate networks based on their face-to-face relationships. The problem of "context collapse" identified in the West as the mixing of multiple, distinct, and even unknown audiences on social network sites leading to the disintegration of contextual cues for self-presentation (boyd, 2008;Vitak, 2012) is a nonissue in southeast Turkey, where people use Facebook to construct multiple closed groups for social interaction and make extensive use of the private chat feature (Costa, 2018).…”

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Culture and Digital Media in Adolescent Development

Manago¹,

McKenzie²

2022

Handbook of Adolescent Digital Media Use and Mental Health

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Digital media are integrated into the lives of adolescents in almost every corner of the globe, yet the extent of integration, how media are used, and the effects of media in development are anything but universal. Much of what is known about adolescent digital media use and its consequences center on high-income economiesparticularly in the USA and Western Europe (e.g., Twenge et al., 2019;Vanden Abeele, 2016). Comparatively less is known about media use in lower-and middle-income economies, where digital media use has risen exponentiallyespecially among youthin a short period of time (Silver et al., 2019). Between 2000 and 2022, internet growth rates in Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, and the Middle East ranged from 2,300% to 13,000%, compared to 200-600% internet growth rates in Europe, North America, and Oceana/Australia during the same period of time (Internet Usage Statistics, 2022). Indeed, the increase in digital media use is now led by emerging and developing world regions (Poushter et al., 2018).The international perspective on digital media and adolescent development we provide in this chapter is important for a number of reasons. First, international perspectives help Western-based developmental psychologists such as ourselves appreciate human diversity and understand our own WEIRD (Western, Educated, Individualistic, Rich, Democratic;Henrich et al., 2010) perspectives on technology and human development. Second, cross-cultural research helps us to see how digital media such as mobile devices and social media platforms are cultural tools in the sociocultural tradition of Lev Vygotsky, rather than separate, disconnected, "virtual" places. Cultural tools are material and symbolic resources that accumulate through social processes across generations and that mediate human thinking and action (Cole & Scribner, 1978). Tools enable children to master psychological functions like memory, attention, and interpretation, which become implicated in a culture's definition of intelligence (Maynard et al., 2005). Although Vygotsky's theory is generally applied to cognitive development, the idea that digital media are cultural tools transforming human activity and psychological functioning can also be applied to social skills and identity development during the transition to adulthood (Manago et al., 2008).In conceptualizing digital media as cultural tools, we can examine the affordances or "opportunities for action" they offer, which are materially 162

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Cultural Differences in Garnering Social Capital on Facebook: French People Prefer Close Ties and Americans Prefer Distant Ties

Cited by 5 publications

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The use of online social networking sites to nurture and cultivate bonding social capital: A systematic review of the literature from 1997 to 2018

The use of online social networking sites to nurture and cultivate bonding social capital: A systematic review of the literature from 1997 to 2018

Staying connected during stay‐at‐home: Communication with family and friends and its association with well‐being

Culture and Digital Media in Adolescent Development

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