Relationship formation on the Internet: What's the big attraction?

By Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, Amie S. Green, M. Gleason. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use (2009, background): “The process of meeting an online contact is often marked by a series of stages in which trust and comfort are built (McKenna et al., 2002).”
TUNES THAT BIND? (2009, background): “Women are more likely to use internet technologies for relational purposes (Boneva & Kraut 2002; Gilbert et al. 2008; Lampe et al. 2007; Pew 2000) and enjoy online communication more than men (McKenna et al. 2002).”
The Ideal Elf: Identity Exploration in World of Warcraft (2007, positive): “They also found that individuals were more likely to claim that they could express their ‘true’ selves online [12].”
Internet Use and Loneliness in Older Adults (2008, neutral): “3,4 In contrast, some researchers report that Internet use has important positive social effects on individuals 5 and groups, 6 which supports the notion that the Internet has expanded our ability to communicate through establishing and maintaining social relationships across geographical…”
New Ways of Working: Impact on Working Conditions, Work–Family Balance, and Well-Being (2014, background): “This makes email a relatively ‘safe’ environment (McKenna et al. 2002).”
Demarginalizing the sexual self (2001, methodology): “As important Internet relationships are integrated into one's identity, people are also motivated to make these important new relationships a social reality by making them public and face to face (McKenna et al., 2002).”
The Living and the Dead: Community in the Virtual Cemetery (2004, background): “Although these notes were written in a cemetery-wide guestbook with thousands of other entries, these visitors clearly were aware of a cyberspace community of which they were members and in which they felt emotionally safe and shared an emotional connection with others, components of the psychologic”
Social Media Brand Community and Consumer Behavior: Quantifying the Relative Impact of User- and Marketer-Generated Content (2013, background): “It has been widely acknowledged that online social interactions can allow online users to establish awareness of one another (McKenna et al. 2002), and the awareness may increase with the amount of interactions and eventually lead to online relationship development (Parks and Floyd 1996).”
Online Communication and Adolescent Social Ties: Who benefits more from Internet use? (2009, background): “Among recent studies, Mesch (2003, 2006) who examined Israeli adolescent Internet use found that Internet use was negatively related to family closeness, and positively related to family conflicts. Nie et al. (2002) also support the displacement between Internet use and social time.”
Applying Common Identity and Bond Theory to Design of Online Communities (2007, background): “In online communities, members’ frequency of interaction with others is a major determinant of the extent to which they build relationships with one another (McKenna et al. 2002).”