REDEFTIE

Redefining tie strength – how social media (can) help us to get non-redundant useful information and emotional support

Coordinatore	MEDIEN IN DER BILDUNG STIFTUNG    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	1˙079˙457 €
EC contributo	1˙079˙457 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2012-StG_20111124
Funding Scheme	ERC-SG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-01-01   -   2017-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	STICHTING VU-VUMC  Organization address address: DE BOELELAAN 1105 city: AMSTERDAM postcode: 1081 HV contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Mareanne Cognome: Karssen Email: send email Telefono: +31 20 598 6850 Fax: +31 20 598 6800	NL (AMSTERDAM)	beneficiary	19˙072.00
2	MEDIEN IN DER BILDUNG STIFTUNG  Organization address address: SCHLEICHSTRASSE 6 city: TUEBINGEN postcode: 72076 contact info Nome: Klaus-Dieter Cognome: Bastin Email: send email Telefono: +497071 979 256 Fax: +497071 979 125	DE (TUEBINGEN)	hostInstitution	1˙060˙385.00
3	MEDIEN IN DER BILDUNG STIFTUNG  Organization address address: SCHLEICHSTRASSE 6 city: TUEBINGEN postcode: 72076 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Sonja Cognome: Utz Email: send email Telefono: +49 7071 979 0 Fax: +49 7071 979 0	DE (TUEBINGEN)	hostInstitution	1˙060˙385.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Social media offer us effortless ways to stay in touch with large numbers of individuals. These individuals can be friends (strong ties), acquaintances (weak ties), or people we barely know (absent ties). Decades of social capital research have shown that strong ties are useful because they provide us with emotional support and weak ties are useful because they provide us with non-redundant useful information, but absent ties do not provide us with any benefits at all. Now, social media challenge these conclusions. Through social media, people connect to absent ties daily, so apparently there are benefits involved. My central question therefore is: To what extent do social media change how, and from whom, we seek and receive informational and emotional support? Social media technologies have changed the frequency and nature of our social connections. Smart phones allow a constant connection with our social network, sometimes even preventing us from socializing face-to-face. Twitter facilitates asymmetric relationships, such that even marginalized individuals can connect to important information sources. Facebook has set a norm where individuals who in the past we would merely have nodded to, are now embedded in our network of “friends“. It seems natural to assume that, if the way we maintain our social network changes, the way we extract social capital from that network also changes. To deepen our understanding of the effects of social media use on receiving informational and emotional support, I will employ several methods. By means of a large longitudinal study (subproject 1) in a representative sample, I aim to detect causal relationships between social media use at time t and informational and emotional benefits at time tx. In addition, two subprojects will study in detail the cognitive and affective processes underlying informational (subproject 2) and emotional (subproject 3) benefits of social media use.'