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Stories of digital lives: Teacher-student relationships in secondary classrooms and digital spaces
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This qualitative teacher research study employed narrative inquiry to answer its primary research question: How do secondary teachers and students make connections using digital online media? ...
Expansion of Social Media in Agriculture: a User Profile of Twitter's @AgChat, @FollowFarmer and @TruffleMedia Followers
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)
This study included registered Twitter users who follow @AgChat, @TruffleMedia and @FollowFarmer accounts. The sample (N = 7,275) was sent a direct message with a survey link and asked to complete the survey. An instrument ...
Effects of Facebook Use on College Students Interpersonal Development
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-05-01)
This is a quantitative study that analyzes Facebook use intensity, sex, and the development of mature interpersonal relationships of students at Oklahoma State University. Correlation analysis yielded small but significant ...
Ritualization of Communication Developments: Institutions and McDonaldized Communication of Everyday Life
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)
Communication developments obviously impact individuals and society as they allow increased communication and information sharing over a distance. Today many individuals carry cell phones on their person at almost all ...
Ideal female body versus ideal athletic body: How social media affects body image of collegiate female runners
(2022-05)
Female athletes are conflicted because they are pressured to conform to society’s ideal female body portrayed in the media and the ideal athletic body for their sport. In the sport of running, there is a huge emphasis on ...
Social media and the cultivation of Americans' perceptions towards Arabs and Muslims
(2020-12)
The west has perceived Arabs and Muslims through the stereotypes they are associated with in the media, such as news broadcasts, print media, films, or TV shows. With the emergence of social media, these stereotypes followed ...
Leveraging social storytelling to foster consumer brand engagement
(2020-12)
Storytelling's potential to mentally transport consumers and influence their attitudes, behaviors and beliefs has been traversed by researchers from diverse fields, including anthropology, psychology, and marketing. In ...
On the development of a suite of tools for the analysis of Twitter discourse
(2022-05)
Social media has become a ubiquitous avenue of natural language use that represents an enormous amount of data, which has in the last decade been used in an increasing amount of linguistic research in such topics as regional ...
Examination of potential mediators and moderators of the relationship between social media use and depression symptoms
(2020-12)
Rates of depressive episodes are highest among emerging adults (aged 18-25) and the incidence of a major depressive episode has increased by 46%, 122%, 59%, and 39% for individuals aged 18-19, 20-21, 22-23, and 24-25, ...
Uses and perceptions of social media as a student engagement tool for academic purposes at a community college
(2020-12)
With the growth of social media over the last decade, students are looking at these platforms not only for personal purposes but also for academic purposes. Social networking sites (SNS) are online communities designed to ...