Note: this entry is a response to a series of emails that were posted on the Association of Internet Researcher’s email list regarding the ability of an iPad to be a device for writers. I’m normally considered an early adopter of technology. I love being on the “cutting edge.” My first “portable computer” was a …
During the first half of 2010, I decided to study the impact that social media was playing on traditional media channels. The feud between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien about the Tonight Show was happening during the same time. The original plan was to conduct a multi-method study looking at the online artifacts related to …
The purpose of this proposal is to describe the focus of my dissertation, which will be observing incoming traditional first-year students to Midwestern universities, whose hometowns are small towns and see how those first-year students use Facebook as a coping mechanism. The paper will begin with an in-depth discussion of my research interest and a …