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“You Can Connect with Like, the World!”: Social Platforms, Survival Support, and Digital Inequalities for People Experiencing Homelessness
This study examines how people experiencing homelessness invest their efforts in locating survival support over social media and crowdfunding and the barriers they experience along the way. Reporting on ethnographic fieldwork with unstably housed…
The Dynamics of Social Capital: Examining the Reciprocity between Network Features and Social Support
An essential tenet of social capital is that it is a reciprocal process: social networks produce desirable outcomes, and the resulting outcomes can then feed back into influencing networks. The current study is among the first to examine a dynamic,…
Longitudinal Social Grooming Transition Patterns on Facebook, Social Capital, and Well-Being
The longitudinal associations between Facebook use and well-being have received limited exploration with mixed results. We argue that the transition pattern of an individual’s social grooming
style based on five social grooming behaviors at…
style based on five social grooming behaviors at…
Core Tech Support Networks and Digital Inequalities in American Disadvantaged Urban Communities
This study originates the construct of core tech support networks to understand the most fundamental digital inequality issues that remain in disadvantaged communities. Beyond social
inequalities, digital factors, and social capital, this study…
inequalities, digital factors, and social capital, this study…
Good News! Communication Findings May be Underestimated: Comparing Effect Sizes with Self-Reported and Logged Smartphone Use Data
Despite long-standing concerns over self-reported measures of media use, media research has relied heavily on self-reported data. This study not only examined discrepancies between survey
and logged smartphone data but assessed whether…
and logged smartphone data but assessed whether…
The influence of social capital and entrepreneurial attitude orientation on entrepreneurial intentions: the mediating role of psychological capital
The entrepreneurial intention plays a vital role in generating new business. Although many studies have shown that attitude is influential in shaping intentions, few discuss this relationship by engaging interactively with social and psychological…