Social Media Potential for Building Meaningful Connections
How to create meaningful connections and find true friends online? Which social media features and platforms enable meaningful connections, which doesn't? What are the elements that determine real connections and mutual liking?
This ELU project aims to try to answer these questions to enable the visioning of a new age social media platform, that could solve these challenges.
This ELU project aims to try to answer these questions to enable the visioning of a new age social media platform, that could solve these challenges.
The aim of the project
In the first stage:
- Interview good friends who met online (or on social media) and whose friendship started virtually.
- As a result of the interviews, map out the various web and social media solutions that have worked to create new meaningful contacts.
In the second stage:
- As a result of the previous mapping, develop different hypotheses and solutions that could be tested through a survey.
- Prepare a draft of the online survey to test different hypotheses to find out the best elements for making meaningful contacts.
Project members
Computer Science (1)
Well-Being and Health Behaviour (1)
Liberal Arts in Social Sciences (1)
Psychology (1)
Human-Computer Interaction (1)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (1)
Human Rights in the Digital Society (1)
Law (1)
Adult Education (1)
Estonian Studies (1)
Recreation Management (1)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (1)
Project materials
Social media idea descriptions.docx (7.75 KB)
Theoretical overview.docx (16.33 KB)
Action plan.docx (1.05 MB)
Public Self-reflection.docx (11.85 KB)
LIFE project report_0.docx (1.06 MB)
Participants
A
Anneli Põldaru
I
Ivan Strigin
E
Eva Dyachuk
L
Lisandra Kask
S
Sohrab Quraishi
M
Maria Miriame Russo
S
Sifat-E- Afzal
I
Isabella Shuxin Savela
G
Geily Nurmeots
I
Ilea Liidia Peckham
H
Helena Jõgi
J
Julia Sidorova
Extra information about referencing and rights
When referencing project outcomes, the APA7 citation system is used.
If a work has more than 20 authors, the names of the first 19 authors are listed, followed by an ellipsis (...), and then the name of the final author. If there are fewer than 20 authors, the names of all authors are listed.
