This essay will argue that social media play a vital role on development and maintenance relationships in terms of social media’s affordances, namely connectivity, visibility and interactivity.
In the first section, this essay will consider that the connectivity of social media may promote the personal relationships. However, it is important to recognize that there are some negative effects of this affordances. Chambers (2013) recognizes that migrant mothers use technology like mobile devices to justify their decision to work abroad and think it will be easier for them to keep in touch with their children. Whereas for older children, continuous communication can make them feel invasive and unwelcome. Migrants children, especially teenagers …show more content…
Cummings, et al (2006) demonstrates that social media like email and instant messaging help college students remain close to their high school friends after they leave home or college. They even therefore introduce a measure focusing specifically on the maintenance of existing social capital after this major life change experienced by college students, focusing on their ability to leverage and maintain social connections from high school. Therefore, using social media to connect with family and friends and keep a strong ties with them has many benefits on the maintenance of personal relationships. Having discussed that the connectivity of social media can foster personal relationships, this essay will now concentrate on the visibility of social media can promote the professional relationships. As for the doctors-patients relationship, according to Dejong (2014), doctors who post inappropriate content on social media cannot erase it, so these postings are visible to patients. Patients could search health-care professionals’ name online and see the older postings and photographs that doctors post before and never want to see it again. In addition, visibility of social media also has some dark sides on researchers. For example, Lupton (2014) asserts that researchers or …show more content…
Their ideas are visible online and could be copied by some colleagues without their permission and acknowledgement. However, social media can support good teaching and learning in terms of visibility. Lecturers use social media to distribute content and delivery course materials. Teachers may prefer to use just one system or service such as blogs, Twitter and so on to upload course material. These course materials are visible to students, so they could check the platforms and download the course materials for learning, which can help students conduct research, develop ideas, prepare and get feedback on early draft materials, build their online profile, and communicate or deal with their work (Poor,2014). As for the users-journalists relationship, Zeichick (2009) points out that journalistic practices to citizen journalism. Social media like Twitter provides a platform for citizen journalists to post users generated contents that can be easily seen by users of Twitter. Because of the accessibility and visibility of social media, everyone could be a citizen journalist to share their ideas about anything by
In the first section, this essay will consider that the connectivity of social media may promote the personal relationships. However, it is important to recognize that there are some negative effects of this affordances. Chambers (2013) recognizes that migrant mothers use technology like mobile devices to justify their decision to work abroad and think it will be easier for them to keep in touch with their children. Whereas for older children, continuous communication can make them feel invasive and unwelcome. Migrants children, especially teenagers …show more content…
Cummings, et al (2006) demonstrates that social media like email and instant messaging help college students remain close to their high school friends after they leave home or college. They even therefore introduce a measure focusing specifically on the maintenance of existing social capital after this major life change experienced by college students, focusing on their ability to leverage and maintain social connections from high school. Therefore, using social media to connect with family and friends and keep a strong ties with them has many benefits on the maintenance of personal relationships. Having discussed that the connectivity of social media can foster personal relationships, this essay will now concentrate on the visibility of social media can promote the professional relationships. As for the doctors-patients relationship, according to Dejong (2014), doctors who post inappropriate content on social media cannot erase it, so these postings are visible to patients. Patients could search health-care professionals’ name online and see the older postings and photographs that doctors post before and never want to see it again. In addition, visibility of social media also has some dark sides on researchers. For example, Lupton (2014) asserts that researchers or …show more content…
Their ideas are visible online and could be copied by some colleagues without their permission and acknowledgement. However, social media can support good teaching and learning in terms of visibility. Lecturers use social media to distribute content and delivery course materials. Teachers may prefer to use just one system or service such as blogs, Twitter and so on to upload course material. These course materials are visible to students, so they could check the platforms and download the course materials for learning, which can help students conduct research, develop ideas, prepare and get feedback on early draft materials, build their online profile, and communicate or deal with their work (Poor,2014). As for the users-journalists relationship, Zeichick (2009) points out that journalistic practices to citizen journalism. Social media like Twitter provides a platform for citizen journalists to post users generated contents that can be easily seen by users of Twitter. Because of the accessibility and visibility of social media, everyone could be a citizen journalist to share their ideas about anything by