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Alzheimer’s Facebook support groups: uses, gratifications and perceptions of information accuracy for caregivers

Mayes, Kathryn A. (Kansas State University, 2015-04-23)

This study was designed to explore how Alzheimer’s caregivers use Facebook support groups. Specifically it describes what kinds of activities caregivers engage in when in Facebook support groups, explores the motivation ...
Courting the consumer: consumer preferences and engagement with social-media marketing and horticultural businesses

Reid, Deanna Rose (2020-05-01)

In recent years, horticultural industry changes, local food movements, fluctuating consumer perceptions and motivations to buy fresh produce and plants, and new online marketing opportunities have impacted small and rural ...
Examining factors that influence subordinates’ willingness to connect with supervisors on Facebook through the lens of communication privacy management theory

Akin, Kazim Yigit (Kansas State University, 2017-08-01)

Over the last decade, people have been able to access and use the Internet quickly and easily though several types of advanced technologies. Social networking sites (SNS) have attracted millions of users from all over the ...
How to make Facebook your friend: queer self-presentation on a heteronormative social network site.

Russell, Kristin S. (Kansas State University, 2011-08-15)

This paper explores queer self-presentation on the social network site, Facebook, emphasizing gendered functionality, gender and queer politics and presentations of gendered identities. It provides a review of early ...
No consequences: an analysis of images and impression management on Facebook

Pennington, Natalie R.D. (Kansas State University, 2010-05-10)

Goffman (1959) suggests that it is through communication that we are able to form impressions of self and express our identity to society. With the emergence of computer-mediated communication and social network sites we’ve ...
Study of Facebook’s application architecture

Sundar, Nataraj (Kansas State University, 2011-08-31)

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February of 2004, currently having 600 million active users. Users can create a personal profile, add other friends, and exchange messages and notifications when they ...
Uncovering the social impacts of Facebook on a college campus

Vanden Boogart, Matthew Robert (Kansas State University, 2006-08-02)

With the creation of Facebook in 2004, colleges and universities across the United States have been playing catch-up with students. This new technology carries much weight as a new medium for students to build social ...
Using social media to engage students in campus life

Ternes, Jacob A. (Kansas State University, 2013-04-25)

Social media is the use of online applications and websites to create and exchange user-generated content. These websites are becoming ever more popular with college aged students to connect with their peers, businesses, ...