Mediated Interpersonal Communication: A New Way of Social Interaction in the Digital Age
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.041How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- social media, CMC, interpersonal communication, Facebook, theory of social information processing
- Abstract
Although previously intended to seek information, the Internet becomes a means to communicate and social interaction. Thus, it has since proven that social media mediates interpersonal communication, connecting people that never met in face-to-face situations. Social media continuously shaped and shifted the way netizens interact amongst themselves This paper seeks how the netizens interact with each other and how this interactivity takes place within social media realms. Therefore, Social Construction theory and Social Information theory will be used to answer these questions. Using this method of research netnography was done on Bening Society community Facebook account. The informants in this study were drawn from members of the active Bening Society community. Netnography is utilized as a method and the Bening society on Facebook which garnered thousands of members is used as a case study. Hence, the informants are those who are active in participating in this online society. The results showed that social media, in this case, Facebook is able to provide comfort for users, especially in managing social interaction with friends. The process of interpersonal communication that occurs through Facebook resembles those in face-to-face interpersonal communication.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yuli Candrasari PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/31 TI - Mediated Interpersonal Communication: A New Way of Social Interaction in the Digital Age BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Media Conference 2019 (IMC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 537 EP - 548 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.041 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.041 ID - Candrasari2020 ER -