This study presents results of exploration study on the specific features involved in the process of unintentional meeting partners via Internet in Serbia. The research was conducted using the method of focus groups, consisting of 28 people, who have had personal experience of meeting and communicating with their partners online, and successful continuing of the relationship in the offline world. They perceive more advantages than disadvantages in using the Internet as a means of communication with other people, assessing online space as a suitable environment for communication in which emotional intimacy can be achieved, despite the absence of social cues.
Keywords:
computer mediated communication / attitudes / meeting via Internet / Serbia
TY - JOUR
AU - Ivković, Marija
AU - Devedžić, Mirjana
PY - 2015
UR - https://gery.gef.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/675
AB - This study presents results of exploration study on the specific features involved in the process of unintentional meeting partners via Internet in Serbia. The research was conducted using the method of focus groups, consisting of 28 people, who have had personal experience of meeting and communicating with their partners online, and successful continuing of the relationship in the offline world. They perceive more advantages than disadvantages in using the Internet as a means of communication with other people, assessing online space as a suitable environment for communication in which emotional intimacy can be achieved, despite the absence of social cues.
PB - Slovak Academic Press Ltd, Bratislava
T2 - Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review
T1 - Unintentional Online Meeting of Partners: Specific Features, Attitudes, Experiences - Case Study in Serbia
VL - 47
IS - 6
SP - 579
EP - 604
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_675
ER -
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year = "2015",
abstract = "This study presents results of exploration study on the specific features involved in the process of unintentional meeting partners via Internet in Serbia. The research was conducted using the method of focus groups, consisting of 28 people, who have had personal experience of meeting and communicating with their partners online, and successful continuing of the relationship in the offline world. They perceive more advantages than disadvantages in using the Internet as a means of communication with other people, assessing online space as a suitable environment for communication in which emotional intimacy can be achieved, despite the absence of social cues.",
publisher = "Slovak Academic Press Ltd, Bratislava",
journal = "Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review",
title = "Unintentional Online Meeting of Partners: Specific Features, Attitudes, Experiences - Case Study in Serbia",
volume = "47",
number = "6",
pages = "579-604",
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Ivković, M.,& Devedžić, M.. (2015). Unintentional Online Meeting of Partners: Specific Features, Attitudes, Experiences - Case Study in Serbia. in Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review
Slovak Academic Press Ltd, Bratislava., 47(6), 579-604.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_675
Ivković M, Devedžić M. Unintentional Online Meeting of Partners: Specific Features, Attitudes, Experiences - Case Study in Serbia. in Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review. 2015;47(6):579-604.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_675 .
Ivković, Marija, Devedžić, Mirjana, "Unintentional Online Meeting of Partners: Specific Features, Attitudes, Experiences - Case Study in Serbia" in Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 47, no. 6 (2015):579-604,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_gery_675 .
