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Jeffrey Boase
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 35
Citations - 3372
Jeffrey Boase is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Mobile phone. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 35 publications receiving 3154 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey Boase include University of Tokyo & Ryerson University.
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Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams
TL;DR: A content-based categorization of the type of messages posted by Twitter users is developed, based on which the analysis shows two common types of user behavior in terms of the content of the posted messages, and exposes differences between users in respect to these activities.
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The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism
Barry Wellman,Anabel Quan-Haase,Jeffrey Boase,Wenhong Chen,Keith N. Hampton,Isabel Isla de Diaz,Kakuko Miyata,Kakuko Miyata +7 more
TL;DR: The studies show that the Internet is used for connectivity locally as well as globally, although the nature of its use varies in different countries, and Internet use is adding on to other forms of communication, rather than replacing them.
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Measuring Mobile Phone Use: Self-Report Versus Log Data
Jeffrey Boase,Rich Ling +1 more
TL;DR: The categorical self- report measure asking respondents to estimate “how often” they use their mobile phones fared better than the continuous self-report measure asking them to estimate their mobile phone activity “yesterday.”
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The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships: Personal Relationships: On and Off the Internet
Jeffrey Boase,Barry Wellman +1 more
TL;DR: The role of the internet in personal relationships is discussed in this article, where the authors suggest that the interpersonal patterns associated with internet use are the continuations of a shift in the nature of personal networks that began well before the advent of the Internet.