[Air-L] Study finds reduced feelings of personal well-being

[Javier de Rivera]

Also, another question that we should ask ourselves is whether is not
the "medium" (social media, tv, books, etc.) what matters alone, but
also the content and the the way it works.

In this sense, the dynamics of any media are different at its beginning
than when it's a mature technology. The original TV educational
programing of the 50s to 70s, cannot produced the same effects as the
commercial-entertainment paradigm from then. In the internet there is a
similar process going on, towards the commercialization of the spaces of
interaction (the actual social media) in comparison with the rudimentary
almost-self-made web of the 90's.

Javier de Rivera.


On 08/31/2014 06:30 AM, Scott MacLeod wrote:
> Peter and AoIR friends,
>
> Thanks for this:
>
> Here's the actual MIT Technology Review article about this study:
>
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530401/evidence-grows-that-online-social-networks-have-insidious-negative-effects/
>
> In its comments' section, I asked:
> Are there any comparable or comparative studies asking similar questions
> concerning TV watching, say pre-Graphical User Interface (GUI) internet
> in the 1980s, or even concerning book reading, on subjective well being,
> both of which might be similarly isolating? ...  It seems like any
> hypothetical comparative studies might examine and emphasize the
> increase in the sociality in Italy thanks to social media relative to TV
> watching or book reading, and now with emergent Google + group video
> Hangouts and Adobe Connect, etc. and face-to-face sociality will
> re-emerge in new ways, generating data for important studies ahead.
> Professor Manuel Castells ("The Rise of the Network Society") casts
> these questions in different contexts, sociologically, and concludes
> from the sociological studies of the internet on alienation and
> sociality from the 1990s that, in the aggregate, social media increased
> sociality, - but he didn't examine rigorous sociological studies of
> self-reported well being. Thanks for this study. Scott
> (http://scottmacleod.com)
>
> I'm teaching on Harvard's virtual island in SL and in Google + group
> video Hangouts a free open course online this autumn, which in the
> first half will examine, among many questions about how the
> information technology revolution came about, a) the related
> sociological literature that precedes the study above, and in the
> second half b) problematize the development of wiki MIT OCW-centric
> World University and School, which is planning free CC online
> accrediting university in large languages (and I.B. degrees in UN
> langs), and wiki schools in all 7,106 languages among much else:
>
>
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/08/sundews-drosera-prolifera-planning-to.html
>
> Come join the conversation in the course.
>
> Best,
> Scott
>
> http://scottmacleod.com
>
>
>
> On 8/30/14 6:42 PM, Peter Timusk wrote:
> > This is interesting with a large sample and government agencies
> > does any one know if the news article is misquoting the study?
>
> >
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/social_networks_diminish_personal_wellness_researchers_say_20140830
>
> >  A two-year survey of 50,000 people determined that a lack of
> > face-to-face contact in interactions online—especially on social
> > networks like Facebook and Twitter—reduced feelings of personal
> > well-being.
>
> > Reduced well-being can be interpreted to mean reduced mental
> > health.
>
>
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