CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN ONLINE CONTEXTS AND ITS IMPACT ON FRIENDSHIP IN 2030 Written by: Valéria Santos Conflict is something inevitable in friendship. Sooner or later, there will be misunderstandings or miscommunication, especially because friends usually interact with each other very often. When we examine conflict resolution happening in social media at present and making projections about what conflict resolution is going to be like in ten years from now, we believe that the challenges we face are going to be similar to what we experience currently. In online settings, we identify that most conflicts between friends happen because of lack of cues . Miscommunication is a common trigger for conflicts and that “misinterpretation may lead to increased conflict in online friendships” ( Amichai-Hamburger, Kingsbury & Schneider, 2013, p.37). Some discussion around conflict between friends in online settings have pointed out that the digital environment poses so...
Written by Alexia Taylor, Fernanda Araya, Shamninder Sahota and Valéria Santos. We are all Students of Sheridan College, Davis Campus. ON, Canada., graduating as Early Childhood Educators in April, 2020. This blog is a project developed in the course called Identity, Status and Power: Issues in Social Media. You could also see our posts on Twitter Using #Cult10102G and Facebook using @HowSocialMediaWillChangeFriendship2030 as well.