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Weathering The Storm Surge Of Social Media, Melody Bowdon
Weathering The Storm Surge Of Social Media, Melody Bowdon
UCF Forum
I’ve lived in Central Florida for more than 15 years, and in that time I’ve seen quite a few serious weather events affect our community. Though the hurricane season starts in the summer, around here we tend to become especially aware of the storm possibilities in the early fall, when more tropical activity spins up in the ocean and when annual milestones that have been marred by big storms in previous years come up on our calendars.
The Anxiety Of ‘Read It Later’, Nathan Holic
The Anxiety Of ‘Read It Later’, Nathan Holic
UCF Forum
As a kid, I loved horror movies, and so one year I set out to record every horror movie ever made. My parents had purchased a box of blank VHS tapes from Sam’s Club, and I used Super Long Play to record three movies to a single tape. (The quality was terrible, but this was the 1980s: The TVs were terrible, too.)
The Struggle Of Digital De-Cluttering, Nathan Holic
The Struggle Of Digital De-Cluttering, Nathan Holic
UCF Forum
To be a teacher is to shove all housekeeping tasks to those tight windows of time when the grading goes away. All semester long, dirty laundry piles up. The lawn grows unchecked. And then, just after my semester ends in December, or May, or August, I schedule long-overdue oil changes and haircuts and dental appointments.
The Contribution Of College Students' Attachment Styles And Social Media Practices On Their Relationship Development, Renee Sherrell
The Contribution Of College Students' Attachment Styles And Social Media Practices On Their Relationship Development, Renee Sherrell
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The purpose of this research study was to investigate the directional relationship between college students' attachment styles and social media practices with their relationship development. This investigation tested the theoretical model that undergraduate students' (N = 717) attachment styles (as measured by the Experiences in Close Relationships-Short form [ECR-S; Wei et al., 2007]) and social media practices (as measured by the Facebook Intensity Scale [FBI; Ellison et al., 2007] and Motives for Going Facebook Official Scale [MGFBO; Fox & Warber, 2013]) contributed to their quality of relationship development (as measured by the Parks Relational Development Scale [PRDS; Parks & Roberts, …