From Vis-á-Vis to Face(book)-to-Face(book) Interaction.
A Study on Friendship Between Young Students
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Publication date: 2013-06-25
Polish Sociological Review 2013;182(2):165-184
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This article presents the main results of an empirical research conducted on two places where
young students make friendly relationships: school and Internet. It is obvious that two different places
symbolize two different levels of reality. Are they complementary or contradictory? Are the friends of
this real world equal to Facebook friends? Can we consider school friendship the same as the friendship
accepted, and removed, by a simple click? The author tries to pinpoint the hidden mechanisms through
which the virtual reality is actualized. By the social relational ontology, it’s possible to understand better
and deeper the link between social capital of the young students and the continuum passage from on-line
to off-line friendship.