On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, SA cited
> Nie, N. H., Hillygus, D. S. and Erbring, L. (2008) "Internet Use,
> Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study" in The
> Internet in Everyday Life (eds B. Wellman and C. Haythornthwaite),
> Blackwell Publishers
>
> ABSTRACT:
>
> Using exciting new time diary data
Now there's an oxymoron :-)
> ...Rather than dwelling on the increasingly stale debate about whether
> the Internet is good or bad for sociability...Our findings offer support
> for a "displacement" or "hydraulic" theory of Internet use -- time
> online is largely an asocial activity that competes with, rather than
> complements, face-to-face social time
That sort of sounds like the stale debate, no?
Is this post asocial? If I spend an hour doing stuff like this, am I really not interacting with friends? I'll buy that it's a different form of social interaction. But not that it's the defining opposite of social.
So this seems like a dead end framework. But perhaps the abstract isn't a fair representation of the full paper.
Michael