Personal relationships in the digital age: three female academics’ qualitative research

Saveria Capecchi ()
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Saveria Capecchi: University of Bologna

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2018, vol. 52, issue 4, No 12, 1669-1675

Abstract: Abstract This essay deals with the theme of personal relationships on social media, linked to the theme of online identity, bringing together the research and reflections of some of the most important academics of the internet. They are three Americans from different generations: Sherry Turkle, Nancy Baym and danah boyd, who are concerned with looking into interpersonal online relationships (the body is therefore absent) demonstrating particular sensitivity to emotional aspects which are brought into play at the point where humans and technology, online and offline and public and private spheres meet. If the first stage of internet history highlighted users’ freedom of identity expression, then the era of social networks is about the ease with which people can maintain and expand a network of contacts, while raising some doubts over the quality of such relationships. It is interesting to see how the three academics place not only the quality of the relationship, but also the quality of research at the centre of their reflections, demonstrating their passion for the work which is part of their lives.

Keywords: Personal relationships; Online identity; Social media; Qualitative research; Digital ethnography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-017-0544-1

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