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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Internet--Social aspects"”.
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Internet use among Maltese adolescents : an exploratory study
This study examines Internet use patterns among Maltese adolescents. It mainly explores the amount of time participants spend on the Internet, the online activities which are most popular among adolescents and the effect that Internet use has on depression, social isolation and living patterns. …
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Internet and U.S. citizen militias
… behavior holds that people join radical social movements because they experience strain. Among the most serious strains are anxieties that relate to one's social status and the roles that correspond to it. A social movement arises as a means of coping with these anxieties. Militia …
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Why is MySpace the place for friends? : An ethnographic study on the effects of social-networking site use on socialization
… college-aged students ' use of the popular social-networking site, MySpace. It also examined how MySpace influences online and offline relationships as well as impacts individuals' self concept. The research method included an initial unobtrusive observation of 50 random MySpace pages, …
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Why do some preservice teachers trust digital technology and others don't? : conceptualizing the intersection of trust, technology, and education
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Educational Psychology and Educational Technology, 2010
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The influence of social media on chinese college students' social activism
… between Chinese college students' use of social media and their social activism. Data collected from a goup-administered survey of 309 undergraduate students at a large university in eastern China was used to answer four research questions. The results indicated that Chinese college …
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Online persuasion: the influence of message cues and source characteristics
Despite the exponential growth in internet usage for personal communication over the last 10 years (Madden & Zickuhr, 2011) little is known of the online interpersonal persuasion process. Whilst some psychological research has been undertaken in this area, the findings are somewhat contradictory …