Discussion on the Online Interpersonal Relationship in terms of the Computer-Mediated Communication: a Research of Yahoo! Friends-Making Website
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Huang, Ju-Hsu
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The development of communication technology has caused an overwhelming impact to everyone on every possible way. Some people even cannot live without the Internet for one day. The application of the Internet, however, is different from what it used to be. At the beginning, it was only applied to national defense and military affairs, but now it is used in communication, education, entertainment, and so on.
In other words, the Internet is no longer inaccessible, or limited to a specialized field and professional subject, it is more like a handful assistant to us. It not only helps running a large enterprise, but affects our daily life as well. Besides, people would like to know how it has been transforming virtuality into reality, and further, influencing reality.
For instance, since Yahoo!, the biggest and the most popular portal site in Taiwan, provided the service of “online friends-making”, more and more people have logged in the website and registered, trying to make some friends or build up interpersonal relationships through the net. Making friends has then become much more simplified, game-like, commercialized, numerable, competitive, and fast.
This research will focus on the making-friends-online users and their behaviors. What’s more, it aims to discuss the similarities and the differences between computer-mediated-communication to face-to-face communication will also be the emphases of this research. Still, the thesis will introduce the Yahoo! Friends-making system, including its functions and how users should make friends through it.
The “Participant Observation” and the “In-depth Interview” are two mainly methodological practices of this research. By registering myself on the website and having frequent interactions with other members in Yahoo!, I can be more involved and more familiar with this online friends-making platform.
The thesis will be presented in terms of a researcher, a reporter, moreover, and a making-friends-online user. Based on Yahoo! Friends-making website, I will try my best to analyze, to explore, to describe, and to explain other users’ thoughts and behaviors, then find out the reason why Yahoo! Friends-making website is popular and successful.
Subjects
電腦中介傳播
面對面人際傳播
網路人際關係
雅虎奇摩交友網站
computer-mediated-communication
face-to-face communication
online interpersonal relationship
Yahoo! Friends-making website
Type
other
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