Stephanie M. Reich

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that participants often used the Internet, especially social networking sites, to connect and reconnect with friends and family members, and there was overlap between participants' online and offline networks.

TL;DR: While the study found moderate overlap between teens' closest online and offline friends, the patterns suggest that adolescents use online contexts to strengthen offline relationships.

TL;DR: This paper conceptualizes disciplines as cultural groups and advocates for culturally competent practices to facilitate interdisciplinary research and practice and suggests that each participant in interdisciplinary collaborations must value diversity, develop the capacity for self-assessment, and work towards understanding one's own disciplinary culture.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reanalyzes focus group and survey data from high school and college students to investigate whether uses of social networking sites demonstrate key components of PSC (i.e., membership, influence, immersion, shared emotional connection, and an integration and fulfillment of needs).

TL;DR: Teens, who are developmentally able to perceive a situation from the third-person perspective and who value peer approval, purposefully share content to appear interesting, well liked, and attractive online.