Internet and Social Interaction

Rob Patton is Program Manager of CITS and will present recent research that examines the communication behaviors of student users of the popular online social networking site (SNS) Facebook. Specifically the research analyzed the relationships between antecedent user characteristics and forms of networked interactivity present in Facebook user profile communication.

This talk examines differences between users and nonusers, in offline and online social interaction, controlling for a variety of socio-demographic and individual factors, analyzing data from national probability sample surveys, in the US (telephone surveys in 1995 and 2000) and Britain (face-to-face interviews in 2003).