{"id":2353,"date":"2007-11-20T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T16:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2007-11-20T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T16:10:03","slug":"you-have-been-poked-brett-in-first-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/you-have-been-poked-brett-in-first-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"You have been poked: Brett in First Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Bumgarner&#8217;s UNC Honors Thesis on the uses and gratifications of Facebook is now published on\/at\/by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uic.edu\/htbin\/cgiwrap\/bin\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/index\">First Monday<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uic.edu\/htbin\/cgiwrap\/bin\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/issue\/view\/254\">Volume 12 Number 11 &#8211; 5 November 2007<\/a>). This is a groundbreaking study with a very high N:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uic.edu\/htbin\/cgiwrap\/bin\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/2026\">You have been poked: Exploring the uses and gratifications of Facebook among emerging adults<\/a><br \/>\nby Brett A. Bumgarner<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n<p>The social networking site Facebook has become an inescapable phenomenon for college students, but little systematic research has studied why these students use Facebook. I conducted an online survey among Facebook users at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (N = 1,049) to examine why they use Facebook and how it fulfills their needs. The most prevalent use of Facebook was as a social activity \u00e2\u20ac\u201c students reported using Facebook with friends to view and discuss other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s profiles. Essentially, Facebook appears to operate primarily as a tool for the facilitation of gossip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: Fred and I were Brett&#8217;s advisors. Jane Brown was the lead advisor and a great one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Bumgarner&#8217;s UNC Honors Thesis on the uses and gratifications of Facebook is now published on\/at\/by First Monday (Volume 12 Number 11 &#8211; 5 November 2007). This is a groundbreaking study with a very high N: You have been poked: Exploring the uses and gratifications of Facebook among emerging adults by Brett A. Bumgarner Abstract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}