Article ID: CBB024782122

Has the Internet Reduced Friendship? Scientific Relationships in Ghana, Kenya, and India, 1994-2010 (May 2017)

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Has the Internet changed the pattern of social relations? More specifically, have social relations undergone any systematic change during the recent widespread diffusion of new communications technology? This question is addressed using a unique longitudinal survey that bookends the entire period of Internet diffusion in two African nations and one Indian state. We analyze data on nine professional linkages reported by a population of agricultural and environmental scientists in Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala over a sixteen-year period (1994-2010). Factor analysis reveals two clusters of relationships, one interpretable as traditional scientific exchange, the other indicating mediated forms of collaboration. While collaboration increases in frequency, friendship declines. We interpret this shift as a consequence of communications technology that facilitates formal projects, reducing the affective dimension of professional association.

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Authors & Contributors
Bulpin, Kate
Felt, Ulrike
Fisher, Erik
Franda, Marcus F.
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Molyneux-Hodgson, Susan
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social Studies of Science
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Science as Culture
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Engineering Studies
Publishers
Amsterdam University Press
IEEE
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Rowman & Littlefield
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Scientific collaboration
Ethnography
Internet
Information technology
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
People
Swarup, Govind
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
India
Ghana
Kenya
Great Britain
China
Japan
Institutions
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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