This research compared social networking site (SNS) use in a collectivistic culture, China, and an individualistic culture, the United States (US). Over 400 college student participants from a Southwestern University in Chongqing, China, and 490 college participants from a Midwestern University in the US completed a survey about their use of SNSs – time spent, importance and motives for use. Th...

BACKGROUND Research on aging has consistently demonstrated an increased chance of survival for older adults who are integrated into rich networks of social relationships. Theoretical explanations state that personal networks offer indirect psychosocial and direct physiological pathways. We investigate whether effects on and pathways to mortality risk differ between functional and structural cha...

1 Dewey, Mitra, and the “Technological Proletariat:” Democratizing the Information Revolution John Hartmann, Southern Illinois University [email protected] Pragmatism and Technological Practice Conference Rochester Institute of Technology February 14, 2003 Do not cite w/o permission – comments are always welcome Introduction In his 1939 essay, “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us,” John De...

introduction: evaluation of teachers is considered among top priorities in an educational institution. most of the universities around the world including universities in iran have considered feedback from students as the only or main source of assessment of the quality of teaching process for many years. regarding the existing disagreements in evaluation, the purpose of this study is to invest...