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The Use Of Mobile Social Technology As Transitional Objects Impact On Personality Functioning, Peter Gleiberman
The Use Of Mobile Social Technology As Transitional Objects Impact On Personality Functioning, Peter Gleiberman
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact unlimited connectivity and unlimited access to voice, text, and video communication as well as multimedia content consumption through mobile social technology has on personality integration. The increased use of mobile social technology has changed how the user engages social relationships. Through mobile social technology, the user places importance in an inanimate object for engagement of social relationships. A reliance on the inanimate object as a social relationship is thought to compromise the ability to internalize integrated object relations and develop stable personality organization. This theoretical research uses hermeneutic analysis of …
To Empathize Or Iempathize: Social Networking And Adolescent Female Friendships, Jennifer A. Schonberg
To Empathize Or Iempathize: Social Networking And Adolescent Female Friendships, Jennifer A. Schonberg
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
Through qualitative methodology, this dissertation aimed to explore adolescent girls’ use of social networking sites (SNS) and the impact these sites could be having on girls’ development of empathy and their ability to address conflict in their friendships. The topic is introduced by outlining the relevant statistics and through highlighting some of the negative and positive influences of SNS use on adolescent female life. Carol Gilligan’s theory of moral development is explained and used to frame the research questions for this phenomenological research study. Section One of this dissertation reviews the current literature on this topic, including how social media …
Adolescent Perspectives On Media Use: A Qualitative Study, April Fiacco
Adolescent Perspectives On Media Use: A Qualitative Study, April Fiacco
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
This qualitative study looks at adolescents’ engagement with media and explores their perceptions of how media plays a role in their lives. For the purpose of this study, media includes watching television shows, watching and reading the news, and involvement in various types of social media. The influence of parents and peers is also explored to examine adolescents’ views of whether parent and peer opinions affect the types of media with which the adolescent participants choose to engage. The study used a semi structured interview to collect data with participants from a Massachusetts public high school. The data were analyzed …