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    Connected at Sea: The Influence of the Internet and Online Communication on the Well-Being and Life Satisfaction of Cruise Ship Employees.

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    This study aims to elucidate the idiosyncratic effects of the Internet and online communication on the well-being and life satisfaction of cruise ship employees. Cross-sectional surveys and covariance-based structural equation modelling tools were used. In addition, univariate variance analysis was used to address the effects of socio-demographic variables (years of service on a cruise ship, working department on a cruise ship, gender, age, educational level and place of residency) on latent variables of the conceptual model. The conceptual model draws on existing theory and previous research and was empirically tested on a sample of cruise ship employee internet users. Result show that while being onboard a cruise ship, employees experience strong social pressure to be constantly available and they fear of missing out on important information and life events. Thus, relatedness to friends and family needs satisfaction is of paramount importance for cruise ship employees because they are fully aware that they are dispensable and replaceable to cruise ship companies, however to their friends and family, they are indispensable and unique. Moreover, employees who engage in other tasks/activities while taking part in online communication with friends and family exhibit reduced performance, which leads to poor interaction and social dissatisfaction. Lastly, employees experiencing under-reciprocating exchanges show significant negative effects on their well-being. Overall, the results provided several important theoretical and practical implications relevant to cruise tourism and human resource management

    Seeing the Invisible: Understanding the Implications of Social Media Invisible Responses for Well-Being and Relational Development

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    Large swathes of current social media scholarship monolithically treats browsing behaviors as passive behaviors, per the passive versus active behaviors approach to social media activities. Such labeling fails to capture the numerous ways that people respond to social media sharing beyond visible clicks on the platform, such as relational distancing or switching channels to respond. Moreover, understanding what people do with information seen on social media platforms and how they respond to such information is integral to theorizing the implications of using these platforms. My dissertation tackles these challenges by first proposing the concept of invisible responses to unify the diverse approaches of responding possible to social media. Specifically, I define invisible responses as reactions to social media sharing by viewers that are invisible along any of the following dimensions: (1) to the original platform, (2) to the sharer, and (3) to the viewer’s imagined audience of third parties. The dissertation presents three empirical studies to investigate the different dimensions of invisible responses. Study 1 examines viewing time and visible clicks while browsing Facebook feeds. While viewing time—a proxy for visual attention—is largely invisible, public feedback of clicks are visible to everyone. Study 1 reveals that the combination of these two types of responses, along with the amount of social content in feeds, can predict important well-being outcome, namely self-esteem. Study 2 explores how people practice self-presentation and relational maintenance in an environment where responses are invisible to third parties. These findings suggest that, given responses that are invisible to third parties, sharers feel lower self-presentational pressure. However, what remains unchanged compared to public feedback is the emphasis on the amount of attention and effort as signaling investment in a relationship. Finally, Study 3 investigates when and why people would make their reception of a social media post invisible or not to the original sharer of the post. Once again, the findings underscore that sending signals of attention and effort is meaningful for relational maintenance. Together, the studies in this dissertation illustrate the importance of invisible responses in understanding well-being and relational outcomes of social media use, as well as opening up future avenues for research. Specifically, responding to the research agenda outlined by the communication visibility theory (Treem, Leonardi, & van den Hooff, 2020), I highlight questions around the management of visibility on social media.PHDInformationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/162891/1/dieptl_1.pd

    Psychohygienic aspects of using real and electronic social networks

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    The master thesis examines the role of social networking sites (SNS) in searching social support via sharing posts within one-to-many communication. The theoretical part is devoted to the user motivation to use SNS, personal characteristics of users, the impact of SNS usage on relationships, social support in the SNS environment and the use of one-to-many communication functions. The empirical part focuses on SNS active users aged 18 - 34 years. In focus groups it examines how and when people use SNS relating social support and building social capital. The results are followed by a questionnaire, which examines what types of social support users are asking for and how they perceive reactions they received. Keywords: social networking sites - social support - social capital - Facebook - InstagramPráce se zabývá využíváním internetových sociálních sítí (SNS) k vyhledávání sociální opory prostřednictvím sdílení příspěvků v rámci komunikace one-to-many. Teoretická část se věnuje motivaci využívání SNS, osobnostním charakteristikám uživatelů, dopadu využívání SNS na vztahy, sociální opoře v prostředí SNS a využívání funkcí komunikace one-to-many. Empirická část se zaměřuje na aktivní uživatele sociálních sítí ve věku 18 - 34 let. Ve fokusových skupinách zjišťuje, jak a kdy lidé využívají SNS v souvislosti se sociální oporou a budováním sociálního kapitálu. Na výsledky navazuje dotazník, který zkoumá, o jakou sociální oporu uživatelé žádají a jak vnímají reakce, kterých se jim dostalo. Klíčová slova: online sociální sítě - sociální opora - sociální kapitál - Facebook - InstagramKatedra psychologieDepartment of PsychologyFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult
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