Interview Extract Codes<\/p>\n
\u201cCompared with my family, I communicate more with my friends. There is basically no difference in the way I communicate with them. At home, I mostly communicate face-to-face with my family members. Unless I’m not in a space, I will use WeChat or make a phone call. After I have WeChat, I don\u2019t think the time of our face-to-face communication has changed.\u201d Communication<\/p>\n
Intimacy in communication<\/p>\n
Face-to-face communication<\/p>\n
Social media<\/p>\n
Traditional communication<\/p>\n
Relationships<\/p>\n
Benefits of social media<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are three groups about the family, my father, mother, and me, and some uncles and aunts. There is also a WeChat group with only me, my dad and my mom, this group does not have my brother, but only me and my parents. These groups are about the same level of activity, and sometimes what parents post is not interesting. I don’t know how to get involved. Or sometimes post some videos or moments, of course I don\u2019t want to watch it.\u201d Family communication<\/p>\n
Group communication<\/p>\n
Social media<\/p>\n
Intimacy in communication<\/p>\n
Traditional communication<\/p>\n
Disconnect<\/p>\n
Inauthentic communication<\/p>\n
Relationships<\/p>\n
Benefits of social media<\/p>\n
\u201cWeChat is very important to my life. It’s basically how I keep in touch with my family and friends back home. I use WeChat to contact almost everyone around me every day, including my Chinese friends in the UK. I may open WeChat dozens of times a day, and it is normal to get hundreds of messages. I must use WeChat every day, it has become my daily habit. I mainly use WeChat communicate with others, I used to read the official account articles, but now it may be less.\u201d<\/p>\n
Communication <\/p>\n
Technology<\/p>\n
Family communication<\/p>\n
Relationships<\/p>\n
Benefits of social media<\/p>\n
\u201cOnline communication can\u2019t control the other\u2019s emotions and tone of speech in a timely manner, and you can\u2019t feel the true mood of the other person. Through text, you may misunderstand the other person\u2019s current mood or tone. Face-to-face communication can more intuitively feel the mood and tone of the other party’s words. When I communicate with my family, I think offline is more effective. Because I am more indifferent to my family online, and sometimes I find my family members very annoying, so I sometimes don’t even reply to their message. But online and offline I treat my friends the same.\u201d Drawbacks of using social media<\/p>\n
Disconnect<\/p>\n
Face-to-face communication<\/p>\n
Relationships<\/p>\n
Traditional communication<\/p>\n
Technology <\/p>\n
Exhibit 1: Interview Extracts and Codes<\/p>\n
Codes Theme<\/p>\n
Traditional communication<\/p>\n
Benefits of social media Traditional familial connections<\/p>\n
Communication<\/p>\n
Intimacy in communication<\/p>\n
Face-to-face communication<\/p>\n
Relationships<\/p>\n
Family communication<\/p>\n
Relationship building<\/p>\n
Social media<\/p>\n
Traditional communication<\/p>\n
Group communication<\/p>\n
Disconnect<\/p>\n
Inauthentic communication<\/p>\n
Technology<\/p>\n
Drawbacks of using social media Inability to connect authentically<\/p>\n
Exhibit 2: Codes and themes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Interview Extract Codes \u201cCompared with my family, I communicate more with my friends. There is basically no difference in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n