Research Methods…

The purpose of my dissertation will be to observe incoming "traditional freshmen" (e.g. 18- to-20 year old students coming to college for the first time) at three Midwestern universities whose hometowns are small towns, where the population is less than 5,000 residents, and see how those freshmen use Facebook as...

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Visual Representation of Networks

Social relations have often been developed in this model as a version of a mathematical theory that focuses on "a set of localically interconnected tautologies" with no real application towards "the theory of social relations" (Barnes, 1972, 5). This had led to a matrix-focused approach to the study of a given...

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