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Home Is Where the Heart Is: Facebook and the Negotiation of "Old" and "New" during the Transition to College
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Stephenson-Abetz, Jenna; Holman, Amanda – Western Journal of Communication, 2012
This study adopts a dialectical perspective to explore how students transitioning to college communicatively negotiate the web of old and new relationships in the age of Facebook. Interpretive thematic analysis of 30 interviews revealed three discursive struggles: preservation and (re)invention, uniqueness and conformity, and openness and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Internet, Role