THE TROUBLESOME KINSHIP, OR, HOW ARE FAMILY TRAGEDIES DISCUSSED IN AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE COMMUNITY

African Family and Kinship

Kinship, Class, and Community

This review presents studies in various world regions. Each uses network analysis software designed explicitly for kinship studies with explicit network measures of cohesion. It presents evidence of fundamental differences in the forms of marital cohesion that show profoundly variable effects over a wide range of social phenomena, regional scales, and diverse cultures. Social cohesion is the ba...

Online Community and Democracy

The debate over the contribution of the Internet to democracy is farfrom settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the US to argue thatthe Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. This paper argues f...

Coproduction or cohabitation: Are anonymous online comments on newspaper websites shaping news content?

The technology that allows readers to post anonymous online comments on newspaper websites gives readers unprecedented opportunities to participate, but poses challenges to the journalistic value of transparency, practice of gatekeeping, and conception of expertise. This nationwide survey of 583 U.S. journalists explores whether the technology has affected their work practices, workplaces, or n...

exploring senior high-school iranian students’ dominant learning style preferences in learning english: how are “good language learners” different from the majority?

چکیده بسیاری از محققان جنبه های مختلفی از سبک های یادگیری را مورد بررسی قرار داده اند. با این وجود، مطالعات بسیار کمی تعاملات بین مفاهیم سبک های یادگیری و " زبان آموزان خوب" " را در مورد توجه قرار داده است. بدین دلیل، هدف کلی این مطالعه بررسی ترجیحات سبکهای یادگیری غالب در دانش آموزان دبیرستانی ایران، و مقایسه آن با ترجیحات سبکهای یادگیری غالب " زبان آموزان خوب" می باشد. با این هدف ، پرسشنامه ...