I came across an interesting paper (to be published on "Current Directions in Psychological Science" which discusses the social consequences of Internet use by adolescents. I have written Patti M. Valkenburg and Peter Joachen University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam School of Communications Research.
After considering an extensive literature Links and longitudinal studies have been made have come to the formulation of what they call "The Internet-enhanced self-disclosure hypotesis, the improvement due to the use of the Internet, the skill to tell the social self and to establish effective social relations.
Unlike what has been shown by studies on the subject made in the 90s (which supported the hypothesis of the negative impact of the use of communication technologies), the most recent studies show the opposite effect.
What the authors has caused this reversal of impact is the wider use which is now making the interaction on-line (due to greater accessibility to the PC and the network, their best performances, the type of social network environments available) that makes possible an intense interaction between people that is known is that the interaction mediated by technology is not just another resource for young people to interact with each other.
Studies "old" showed that the Internet motivate young people to weave superficial relations, to spend time with strangers, to reduce the social and welfare as teenagers. These are the "reductive effect" (reduction effects). At that time most of a person's social network was still off-line and off-line relationships were kept separate from those online. 11% of young people online has passed, now 84% and the dynamics are radically changed. According to the study subject in connection with the facilitation of on-line and almost the entire personal network is also online, staying online not only reduces, but does increase the connection and social welfare. This is because, according to the authors, the increased capacity for self-told through the means of interaction online.
The assumptions of their hypothesis, then, are:
- the online communication stimulates
her story - the story on-line increases the quality of the relationship
- the highest quality della relazione migliora il benessere degli adolescenti.
Questo primo studio evidenzia le tematiche che necessiterebbero di un ulteriore investigazione e se cioè questo effetto sia correlato al tipo di tecnologia usato, al tipo di uso che se ne fa, al genere, alla così detta ansietà sociale.
Gli autori non escludono che l’interazione on-line possa generare cyber-bullismo, abuso sessuale, comportamento aggressivo dovuto alla ridotta inibizione ad essa associata.
Il paper completo lo trovate qui
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/cd/18_1_inpress/Valkenburg.pdf
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