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Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

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Nesi, Jacqueline, Choukas-Bradley, Sophia, Prinstein, Mitchell J.·2018·Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
DOI 10.1007/s10567-018-0262-9PMC PMC6402323
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As social media use becomes increasingly widespread among adolescents, research in this area has accumulated rapidly. Researchers have shown a growing interest in the impact of social media on adolescents' peer experiences, including the ways that the social media context shapes a variety of peer relations constructs. This paper represents Part 2 of a two-part theoretical review. In this review, we offer a new model for understanding the transformative role of social media in adolescents' peer experiences, with the goal of stimulating future empirical work that is grounded in theory. The transformation framework suggests that the features of the social media context transform adolescents' peer experiences by changing their frequency or immediacy, amplifying demands, altering their qualitative nature, and/or offering new opportunities for compensatory or novel behaviors. In the current paper, we consider the ways that social media may transform peer relations constructs that often occur at the group level. Our review focuses on three key constructs: peer victimization, peer status, and peer influence. We selectively review and highlight existing evidence for the transformation of these domains through social media. In addition, we discuss methodological considerations and key conceptual principles for future work. The current framework offers a new theoretical perspective through which peer relations researchers may consider adolescent social media use.

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  • The publicness, permanence, availability, visualness, and cue absence of digital contexts create distinctive opportunities to bully and intimidate others.

    “The publicness, permanence, availability, visualness, and cue absence of digital contexts allow for unique opportunities to bully and intimidate others (Nesi et al., 2018b).”

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    “In our theoretical transformation framework, Nesi et al., (2018a, 2018b) synthesize and build on affordances identified in prior literature to describe seven features of social media: visualness, quantifiability, availability, publicness, permanence, asynchronicity, and cue absence (Nesi et al., 2018a, 2018b) .”

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Authors
Nesi, J., Choukas-Bradley, S., & Prinstein, M. J.
Affiliations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Corresponding author
Nesi, Jacqueline
ORCID
Venue
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2018-04-07
Volume
21
Issue
3
Pages
295-319
ISSN
  • 1096-4037 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2827
DOI
10.1007/s10567-018-0262-9
PMC
PMC6402323
OpenAlex
W2796205913
Cited by
266
References
170
Citations by year
2026: 41 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 2
FWCI
6.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review (publishedVersion, public-domain)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (DGE-1144081)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH85505)
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01-HD055342)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
social media use, peer victimization, peer status, peer influence, transformation framework, theoretical model, methodological considerations
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Group Processes, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Peer Group, Friends, Bullying, Social Media

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