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Monday, November 6th, 2006

I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from my research over the past week.  I went to the MAPACA conference and gave my presentation, but have yet to put it together into a written paper.  At the outset, I thought I would have the paper before going off to the conference, but a few things […]

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data redux

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

i’ve been getting my feet wet with spss, which used to stand for “statistical package for social sciences” before they figured out that they could market it to others for big bucks. how big? the base package of the current version costs $1600! An educational student discount would bring it down to a measly […]

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To spam or not to spam. That is the question.

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Probably the biggest ethical issue I have with the research I’ve been doing to date is that I am sending unsolicited messages to people I don’t know in hopes that they will participate in my survey.  I’ve tried to think of alternative ways of gathering the data or finding people willing to participate, but I […]

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Continuing my research into social networking, I have been reading a few papers on psychosocial identity exploration and formation. This work follows in the footsteps, and expands upon, the work of Erikson. His theories still hold ground in current thought, but have been expanded upon to include more subtleties and modified to allow […]

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Nacho Space

Friday, July 21st, 2006

My professor has asked me to present a piece of research at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference this October. I mulled over a number of research topics that I would find not only interesting, but feasible. I decided that my study would focus on identity formation in the internet age, as […]

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  4. The Wall (disc 2) The Wall (disc 2)
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