Facebook : a study of power relations.

Abstract

This exploratory study attempts to find out how power dynamics are shaped in social relationships through the use of Facebook. This research reviews a series of responses by Singaporeans youths’ to investigate their purpose and motivations to use Facebook

Specifically, it seeks to describe how power is accumulated and then exercised in social relationships through the use of Facebook. Also, it seeks to explain how their practices reproduce power relationships and render them as natural and acceptable. Facebook practices include information-seeking as well as interactions with friends; the primary ways that influences the power relations in social relationships.