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Zhang, Lun, and Jonathan J. H. Zhu. "Regularity and Variability." International Journal of Web Services Research 11, no. 4 (2014): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijwsr.2014100102.

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Social network sites (SNSs) have brought revolutionary changes to individuals' social interactions. The growth of online personal relationships is crucial for understanding current interpersonal communications and network dynamics. In the context of a Chinese SNS, this study provides an empirical presentation of the growth patterns of individuals' online friendships. This study uncovers the regularity as well as the variability of such growth patterns. On the one hand, the friendship growth patterns show regularity in that the time trajectory of friendship growth for most users levels off at s

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Griggs, Andrew C., Emily A. Rickel, Elizabeth H. Lazzara, and Christina M. Frederick Embry-Riddle. "Face-to-Face and Online Friendships: Examining Differences in Trust and Distrust Based on Modality." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 64, no. 1 (2020): 1333–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641318.

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There is growing concern that the quality and psychological benefits of online friendships are not comparable to their face-to-face counterparts. Trust is a key component of relationships and has been studied within the context of virtual relationships for decades. However, previous literature has not thoroughly explored differences in trust among online friendships and online gaming friendships specifically. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in trust and distrust in online friendships based on the relationship’s modality (face-to-face or online). We collected questionnaire

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Aeby, Gaëlle, and Jenny van Hooff. "Who gets custody of the friends? Online narratives of changes in friendship networks following relationship breakdown." Families, Relationships and Societies 8, no. 3 (2019): 411–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674318x15271464535444.

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This article explores online narratives of the loss or change of friendships following an intimate partner relationship breakdown. Drawing on internet forum discussions, we explore individuals’ transitions from coupled to single, and the multiple ways in which this affects their friendship ties. Forum users struggled to reconcile friends’ abandonment or distance with cultural representations of friendship as providing intense emotional support during critical life transitions. Users also reflect on the impact of their recent singlehood on friendships established and maintained while coupled, w

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Rouncefield-Swales, Alison, Bernie Carter, Lucy Bray, et al. "Sustaining, Forming, and Letting Go of Friendships for Young People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): A Qualitative Interview-Based Study." International Journal of Chronic Diseases 2020 (September 4, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7254972.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an incurable, chronic, gastrointestinal condition that can constrain young people’s social relationships. Few studies have specifically explored friendships of people with IBD. This qualitative, participatory study used interviews, photographs, and friendship maps to explore friendships and friendship networks of young people with IBD. An online Young Person’s Advisory Group was actively engaged throughout the study. Thirty-one young people participated (n=16 males, n=15 female; n=24 Crohn’s disease, n=6 ulcerative colitis, n=1 IBD-unclassified; the mean age

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Donchi, Lauren, and Susan Moore. "It's a Boy Thing: The Role of the Internet in Young People's Psychological Wellbeing." Behaviour Change 21, no. 2 (2004): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/bech.21.2.76.55426.

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AbstractThe aim of this study was to assess the relationship between psychological wellbeing and Internet use among adolescents, focussing not only on time spent on the Internet, but also on the relative strength/importance of both face-to-face and Internet friendship networks. A sample of 336 young people aged between 15 and 21 years from a secondary school and a university population were surveyed. Results indicated that females with more online friends were higher on selfesteem and lower on loneliness than females with fewer online friends, but the opposite was true for males. A higher numb

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Zhang, Tianxin, and Christina M. Frederick. "Busting the Myth of the Non-Social Gamer: Comparing Friendship Quality Between Gamers and Non-Gamers." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 62, no. 1 (2018): 746. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621169.

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Beyond the use of social media, people now often connect with people around the globe through online gaming. There are more than one billion people worldwide who play online games, and almost one-half of the population in the U.S are video gamers (Liu, Li, & Santhanam. 2013). There are still common stereotypes that gamers lack “real” friends and hide away from social activities as social isolates because the online world is not conducive to healthy social connections (Nie, 2001, Shen & Williams, 2010; Williams, 2006). However, there are also studies showing that online connections betw

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Finke, Erinn H., Jillian H. McCarthy, and Natalie A. Sarver. "Self-perception of friendship style: Young adults with and without autism spectrum disorder." Autism & Developmental Language Impairments 4 (January 2019): 239694151985539. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396941519855390.

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Background It has been reported that people on the autism spectrum have difficulty making and maintaining friendships. Congruence of perspective on friendships and friendship practices may affect the frequency and intensity of friendships, but this is not well understood. Aims The aims of the current project were to identify the similarities and differences in the broad perspectives and friendship practices of young adults with and without autism. Method and procedures Young adults with and without autism between the ages of 18 and 24 years completed an online survey to determine the friendshi

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van Zalk, Maarten Herman Walter, Nejra Van Zalk, Margaret Kerr, and Hakan Stattin. "Influences between Online–Exclusive, Conjoint and Offline–Exclusive Friendship Networks: The Moderating Role of Shyness." European Journal of Personality 28, no. 2 (2014): 134–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.1895.

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Prior research has indicated that shy adolescents are more motivated to form friendships online than to form friendships offline. Little is known about whether having friendships found exclusively online may impact self–esteem and forming offline friendships for these adolescents. This study therefore aimed to provide insight into the moderating role of shyness in the longitudinal interplay between friendships in online and offline contexts in early adolescence. Adolescents and their friends (193 girls, 196 boys; Mage = 13.29) were followed with three consecutive measurements with intervals of

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Stone, Bessie G., Kathy A. Mills, and Beth Saggers. "Multiplayer Games: Multimodal Features That Support Friendships of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder." Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education 43, no. 2 (2019): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jsi.2019.6.

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AbstractThere is an absence of research into online friendships and video gaming activities of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this article we describe how friendships of students with ASD were developed in an online multiplayer context using the popular sandbox game, Minecraft. Multimodal analysis of the data demonstrated that online multiplayer gaming supported students’ use of speech to engage in conversations about their friendships, and to share gaming experiences with their offline and online friends. Online gaming enabled students to visually gather information about th

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Ang, Chin-Siang. "Attitude Toward Online Relationship Formation and Psychological Need Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Loneliness." Psychological Reports 123, no. 5 (2019): 1887–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294119877820.

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Our study explores the moderating role of loneliness in the relationship between attitude toward online relationship formation and psychological need satisfaction in online friendships. Participants included 1572 adolescents who completed self-report measures of loneliness, attitude toward online relationship formation, and psychological need satisfaction in online friendships. As hypothesized, attitude toward online relationship formation was positively related to psychological need satisfaction in online friendships. Results of moderation also demonstrated that lonely adolescents would repor

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Cantó-Milà, Natàlia, and Swen Seebach. "Ana's Friends. Friendship in Online Pro-Ana Communities." Sociological Research Online 16, no. 1 (2011): 149–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2267.

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The objective of this article is to analyse the social relationships within online communities of anorectics, their bonds, their emotions and friendships, and their subsequent relation to anorexia nervosa. The research has focused on their blogs and their forums, which create a space in which they share their experiences, and sometimes encourage each other not to give up on their eating disorder – which they view as an illness, but an illness that has become their lifestyle, and their attitude towards life. Within the article an analysis of the special bonds of friendship that tie the members

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Damaschke, Katharina C., and Piet Kommers. "Motives and relevance of online friendships." International Journal of Web Based Communities 8, no. 2 (2012): 266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijwbc.2012.046262.

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Kaliarnta, Sofia. "Using Aristotle’s theory of friendship to classify online friendships: a critical counterview." Ethics and Information Technology 18, no. 2 (2016): 65–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-016-9384-2.

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Huang, Li-Chun, and Wen-Lung Shiau. "Why do people use microblogs? An empirical study of Plurk." Information Technology & People 28, no. 2 (2015): 281–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-07-2012-0067.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that affect how people maintain their friendships by using information on Plurk. Design/methodology/approach – This study extended the Theory of Planned Behavior model to include both interpersonal curiosity and reciprocity. Data were collected via an online survey with 220 valid samples. The respondents answered the survey questionnaire based on their past experiences using Plurk. The proposed research model was assessed using structural equation modeling as performed in the LISREL program. Findings – The attitude toward using

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Hood, Michelle, Peter A. Creed, and Bianca J. Mills. "Loneliness and online friendships in emerging adults." Personality and Individual Differences 133 (October 2018): 96–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.045.

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Campbell, MacGregor. "Online friendships light up shadow social network." New Scientist 214, no. 2865 (2012): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(12)61267-6.

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T. Lamere, Alicia, and Kristin Kennedy. "Examining the Effect of Personal Classroom Friendships with Online Learning." World Journal of Education and Humanities 2, no. 3 (2020): p61. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjeh.v2n3p61.

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Friendships within learning environments have been established as valuable aspects of supporting student success. The literature clearly shows that: 1) a student can achieve a better grade depending on how he/she perceives the task in terms of level of difficulty, and 2) a student can perceive the level of difficulty to be more or less difficult, depending on who is in the room with him/her during the task. If task difficulty can be linked to perceived friendships in the room, then fostering friendships in a classroom could play a crucial role to improving performance. As universities continue

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Bouchard, Karen, J. David Smith, and Heather Woods. "Individual and Social-Contextual Factors Underlying Adolescents’ Commitment to Victimizing Friendships: A Qualitative Analysis." Journal of Early Adolescence 41, no. 1 (2020): 70–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272431620919175.

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Previous research indicates that victimized youth are reluctant to address their friends’ victimizing behaviors and are likely to remain in a victimizing friendship despite experiencing significant distress. Research investigating the complex factors underlying this commitment to victimizing friendships is required. To this end, a qualitative research design was used as previously victimized youth asynchronously contributed to an anonymous online discussion forum for 2 months. Guided by two theories used to understand staying/leaving processes in intimate partner violence and a social-ecologic

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Holmes, Mary. "Emotional Reflexivity in Contemporary Friendships: Understanding it Using Elias and Facebook Etiquette." Sociological Research Online 16, no. 1 (2011): 137–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2292.

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The popular social networking site Facebook has become a part of millions of people's everyday lives. In order to help people navigate the friendships they form and maintain on Facebook there are many websites offering advice about etiquette. This advice, and responses to it, can help reveal how contemporary emotional expression is organised, especially as it relates to friendship. This paper critically adapts the approach of other sociologists such as Norbert Elias, and Cas Wouters who have used etiquette and advice books to explore social changes in emotionality. Using online advice about Fa

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Kim, Hyeon-Cheol, and Zong-Yi Zhu. "Improving Social Inclusion for People with Physical Disabilities: The Roles of Mobile Social Networking Applications (MSNA) by Disability Support Organizations in China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 7 (2020): 2333. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072333.

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Having friendships and interpersonal social connections is a normal and expected necessity of life that enhances an individual’s well-being. Digital platforms, such as mobile social network applications (MSNA), present a means for people with disabilities to integrate in society. This study combines intrinsic benefits (such as enjoyment experience and information) and extrinsic benefits (such as social networking) to explore the impact of these benefits on online friendships, and the influence of these online friendships on the perceived social connectedness and well-being of people with physi

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Westcott, Harriet, and Stephen Owen. "Friendship and trust in the social surveillance network." Surveillance & Society 11, no. 3 (2013): 311–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v11i3.4502.

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This article draws on findings from semi-structured interviews to investigate an important, and previously unexplored aspect of the social networking site Twitter, which is the ways that users can employ lateral surveillance to initiate friendships. Social penetration theory (Altman and Taylor 1973) is used to investigate the ways that Twitter provides a platform to technologically augment friendship evolution. Three consecutive phases of online surveillance are proposed, which are: unidirectional ‘studied’ following; ‘reciprocal’ following, when interaction between the user and the Tweeter on

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Yu, Louis Lei, and Valerie King. "The evolution of friendships in Chinese online social networks." International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems 1, no. 2 (2011): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijsccps.2011.044173.

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Elder, Alexis. "Excellent online friendships: an Aristotelian defense of social media." Ethics and Information Technology 16, no. 4 (2014): 287–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-014-9354-5.

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Tian, Junfeng, and Yue Li. "Anticollusion Attack Strategy Combining Trust Metrics and Secret Sharing for Friendships Protection." Security and Communication Networks 2021 (July 5, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9717747.

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Online social networks provide users with services such as online interaction, instant messaging, and information sharing. The friend search engine, a new type of social application, provides users with the service for querying the list of other individuals’ friends. Currently, the existing research focuses on independent attacks for friend search engines while ignoring the more complicated collusion attacks, which can expose more friendships that users are not willing to share. Compared with independent attackers, collusion attackers share query results by cooperating with each other. In this

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Young, Lindsay E., and John A. Schneider. "The Co-Evolution of Network Structure and PrEP Adoption among a Large Cohort of PrEP Peer Leaders: Implications for Intervention Evaluation and Community Capacity-Building." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 11 (2021): 6051. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116051.

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Background: Peer leader interventions are effective strategies for promoting prevention behaviors in communities at risk for HIV, yet little is known about their effects on the social and behavioral dynamics of peer leaders themselves. Methods: Using data from PrEP Chicago, an RCT PrEP for prevention intervention for young Black MSM (YBMSM), we apply stochastic actor-based models to longitudinally model the impact of study participation on the online friendship and PrEP adoption dynamics among a network of peer leaders (n = 174) and a network of control group counterparts (n = 166). Results: P

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Hobbs, William R., Moira Burke, Nicholas A. Christakis, and James H. Fowler. "Online social integration is associated with reduced mortality risk." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 46 (2016): 12980–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605554113.

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Social interactions increasingly take place online. Friendships and other offline social ties have been repeatedly associated with human longevity, but online interactions might have different properties. Here, we reference 12 million social media profiles against California Department of Public Health vital records and use longitudinal statistical models to assess whether social media use is associated with longer life. The results show that receiving requests to connect as friends online is associated with reduced mortality but initiating friendships is not. Additionally, online behaviors th

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Utz, Sonja, Kai J. Jonas, and Ellen Tonkens. "Effects of Passion for Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games on Interpersonal Relationships." Journal of Media Psychology 24, no. 2 (2012): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000066.

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Game research suffers from using a variety of concepts to predict the (often negative) effects of playing games. These concepts often overlap (e.g., addiction or pathological gaming), include negative consequences in their definition, or are very game-specific (e.g., collective play). We argue that the field would benefit from using concepts that are well-established in other domains. Extending earlier work to the interpersonal domain, we examined the effects of obsessive and harmonious passion for massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) on the number and quality of online an

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Cheng, Grand H. L., Darius K. S. Chan, and Po Yee Tong. "Qualities of Online Friendships with Different Gender Compositions and Durations." CyberPsychology & Behavior 9, no. 1 (2006): 14–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cpb.2006.9.14.

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Abell, Loren, and Gayle Brewer. "Machiavellianism and Schadenfreude in Women’s Friendships." Psychological Reports 121, no. 5 (2017): 909–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294117741652.

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The present study investigated the relationship between Machiavellianism, envy, competition, and schadenfreude in women’s same-sex friendships. Women ( N = 133) completed an online questionnaire measuring Machiavellianism, envy, competition, and three author-generated vignettes measuring expressed schadenfreude in relation to a same-sex friend. Women with higher levels of Machiavellianism expressed greater feelings of pleasure in response to their same-sex friend’s misfortunes in a romantic relationship and their physical appearance but not in relation to academic abilities. Envy predicted fee

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Yavich, Roman, and Nitza Davidovitch. ""Together but Separate" – What is the Correlation, If Any, between Social Loneliness, Virtual Friendship, and Use of Social Networks." Journal of Education and Training Studies 7, no. 10 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v7i10.4395.

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With the rise of online social networks, the development and maintenance of relationships are gradually being transferred to the virtual sphere. Technological developments have created a revolution that forces people to cope with situations that were unknown to them several decades ago. This study aimed to examine the association, if any, between social loneliness and virtual friendship. In addition, the effect of gender on these variables was also examined. The research participants included 313 high school students from all over Israel, with an age range of 14-18. The study examined social l

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Maya Beristain, Cynthia, and Judith Wiener. "Friendships of Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." Canadian Journal of School Psychology 35, no. 4 (2020): 266–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0829573520936469.

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) differ regarding their friendships. The sample comprised 107 adolescents (59 ADHD, 48 typically developing comparison), ages 13 to 18 years. Adolescents and their parents completed questionnaires that measured the number and duration of the adolescents’ friendships, the frequency of contact they had with their friends, and the characteristics of their friends. Adolescents with and without ADHD did not differ in the number of friends they nominated, the duration of the

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Wang, Yong, Weiyi Zhang, Ke Rong, Zhen Sun, and Jiaqi Yan. "How Users’ Friendships Support Their Transactions in Online Second-hand Marketplaces." Academy of Management Proceedings 2019, no. 1 (2019): 16902. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.16902abstract.

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Kneidinger, Bernadette. "Intergenerational contacts online: An exploratory study of cross-generational Facebook “friendships”." Studies in Communication Sciences 14, no. 1 (2014): 12–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2014.03.004.

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Chung, Jin Young. "Online friendships in a hospitality exchange network: a sharing economy perspective." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 29, no. 12 (2017): 3177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-08-2016-0475.

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Purpose The present study aims to clarify how online friendships between local residents and tourists are made in a hospitality exchange network, one of the not-for-profit sharing economy platforms. Specifically, the study empirically examines three topics: the properties of dyadic relationships in the platform; the effect of face-to-face interactions on online friendships in the platform; and the role of locals in building host-guest relationships in the hospitality exchange network. Design/methodology/approach Social networks data in CouchSurfing.org were collected and analyzed using a socia

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Sundberg, Martin. "Online gaming, loneliness and friendships among adolescents and adults with ASD." Computers in Human Behavior 79 (February 2018): 105–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.020.

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Medeiros, Dylan T., and Lynne M. Webb. "Remaining Facebook versus Face-to-Face Friends after a Romantic Breakup." International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies 9, no. 1 (2019): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijicst.2019010101.

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The study queried whether the relational characteristics that influence individuals to remain face-to-face friends with former romantic partners following a break up also impact the decisions to remain Facebook “friends” with former romantic partners. The sample included over 300 young adults who met two criteria: They maintained an active Facebook account and reported a pre-marital, romantic break-up. The results revealed that the variables that impact post-dissolution friendship decisions of former romantic partners in the face-to-face context (quantity of relational investments, relational

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Griffiths, Mark, Zaheer Hussain, Sabine M. Grüsser, et al. "Social Interactions in Online Gaming." International Journal of Game-Based Learning 1, no. 4 (2011): 20–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijgbl.2011100103.

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This paper briefly overviews five studies examining massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). The first study surveyed 540 gamers and showed that the social aspects of the game were the most important factor for many gamers. The second study explored the social interactions of 912 MMORPG players and showed they created strong friendships and emotional relationships. A third study examined the effect of online socializing in the lives of 119 online gamers. Significantly more male gamers than female gamers said that they found it easier to converse online than offline, and 57% o

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Cassiman, Ann. "Browsers and phone girls: the intricate socialities of friendship, trust and cyberlove in Nima (Accra)." Africa 88, S1 (2018): S72—S89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972017001152.

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AbstractThe young men of Nima, a popular neighbourhood in Accra, organize themselves in small age groups that meet almost daily in a specific spot, to chat, play and ‘wait’, while dreaming together of a better future in a distant elsewhere. The friendships that find root in these so-called bases, which often have names such as ‘Chicago’ or ‘Brooklyn’, lead to hope and specific modes of action through which these young people engage with the city, the wider world and their own aspirations. Taking these bases as an ethnographic vantage point, this article looks into relations of proximity, frien

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Campbell, Kelly, Jessie Nelson, Michele L. Parker, and Silvana Johnston. "Interpersonal chemistry in friendships and romantic relationships." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 12, no. 1 (2018): 34–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v12i1.289.

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Interpersonal chemistry refers to a perceived instant connection that exists when meeting a person for the first time. In this study, we inductively explored the characteristics of friendship and romantic chemistry for men and women. A social constructionist lens guided our data collection and interpretation. The sample consisted of 362 ethnically diverse individuals (men = 162, women = 200) who completed an online survey. Using textual coding methods, we identified the core themes for interpersonal chemistry as: Reciprocal candor, mutual enjoyment, attraction, similarities, personableness, lo

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Prochnow, Tyler, Logan Hartnell, and Megan S. Patterson. "Depressive symptoms, developing friendships, and social support through online gaming: a mixed-method analysis of online gaming network communication." Mental Health and Social Inclusion 25, no. 3 (2021): 243–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mhsi-02-2021-0011.

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Purpose Online gaming offers avenue to connect with others producing social capital especially for individuals lacking in-real-life (IRL) social support; however, there is concerns related to mental health and depressive symptoms (DS). Virtually mediated social connections are particularly important during times of social distancing. This paper aims to investigate discussant networks established through an online gaming site and their possible association with DS and social support. Design/methodology/approach Participants (n = 40) recruited from an online gaming site reported DS, online and I

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Buote, Vanessa M., Eileen Wood, and Michael Pratt. "Exploring similarities and differences between online and offline friendships: The role of attachment style." Computers in Human Behavior 25, no. 2 (2009): 560–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2008.12.022.

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Fulford, Casey, and Virginie Cobigo. "Service Provider Perspectives Regarding Knowledge Sharing Activities in Community-Based Services." Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 39, no. 2 (2020): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2020-012.

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Evaluation of knowledge mobilization (KM) activities in community-based mental health and social service organizations is needed. Our objective was to understand how service providers want to access and share knowledge, in order to improve KM practices to better support adults with intellectual disabilities. We distributed information about five strategies for supporting friendships; this included strategy descriptions, outcomes of strategy evaluations, and practical implementation considerations. We distributed information through a conference presentation, online presentations, and online mo

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Bane, Cynthia M. H., Marilyn Cornish, Nicole Erspamer, and Lia Kampman. "Self-Disclosure through Weblogs and Perceptions of Online and “Real-life” Friendships among Female Bloggers." Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 13, no. 2 (2010): 131–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2009.0174.

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Kowert, Rachel, Emese Domahidi, and Thorsten Quandt. "The Relationship Between Online Video Game Involvement and Gaming-Related Friendships Among Emotionally Sensitive Individuals." Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 17, no. 7 (2014): 447–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2013.0656.

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Šimandl, Václav. "ICT Teachers, Social Network Sites and Online Privacy." International Journal of Information and Communication Technologies in Education 4, no. 4 (2015): 69–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijicte-2015-0020.

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Abstract The article looks at primary and secondary ICT teachers’ attitude to social network sites and privacy protection on the Internet. Attention is devoted to student-teacher friendships within online network sites. The study includes a description of specific habits as well as a discussion of how teachers make decisions and what influences them. The research has used in-depth semi-structured interviews, focusing on ICT teachers with differing views on the issue in question. Our investigations have been supported by triangulation, which involved accessing information about given teachers o

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Bengtsson, Tea T., Louise H. Bom, and Lars Fynbo. "Playing Apart Together: Young People’s Online Gaming During the COVID-19 Lockdown." YOUNG 29, no. 4_suppl (2021): S65—S80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11033088211032018.

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused countries around the world to initiate societal lockdowns, especially during the spring of 2020. This article focuses on online gaming’s role in young people’s lives during the lockdown in Denmark. Informed by a practice theoretical framework, the analyses of 35 interviews with young people (16–19 years) examine how gaming proved to be something to do in a situation of nothing to do. The analyses find that the young people’s gaming practices were beneficial (a) in allowing the young people to maintain a social life and (b) in providing a legitimate social space for

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White Hughto, Jaclyn M., Anna P. Hidalgo, Angela R. Bazzi, Sari L. Reisner, and Matthew J. Mimiaga. "Indicators of HIV-risk resilience among men who have sex with men: a content analysis of online profiles." Sexual Health 13, no. 5 (2016): 436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh16023.

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Background: HIV-risk resilience, or positive adaptation in the face of risk, is increasingly being recognised as an important characteristic among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, resilience in the context of online partner seeking remains underexplored among MSM. Methods: Using content analysis methodology, this study operationalised indicators of HIV-risk resilience in the profiles of 933 MSM using a sexual networking website. HIV-risk resilience included endorsing foreplay only (non-penetrative sex) or a versatile sexual position; being “out” (e.g. disclosed sexual orientation), ha

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Domahidi, Emese, Ruth Festl, and Thorsten Quandt. "To dwell among gamers: Investigating the relationship between social online game use and gaming-related friendships." Computers in Human Behavior 35 (June 2014): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.023.

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Prochnow, Tyler, Megan S. Patterson, Logan Hartnell, and M. Renée Umstattd Meyer. "Depressive symptoms associations with online and in person networks in an online gaming community: a pilot study." Mental Health Review Journal 25, no. 1 (2020): 21–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mhrj-11-2019-0044.

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Purpose Increases in video game use have led to mental health concerns, citing greater risk for depressive symptoms (DS) and reduced “in-real-life” (IRL) social involvement. However, recent studies have uncovered potential social benefits for online gaming. Many games provide avenues to extend real life relationships and make new online friendships. The purpose of this pilot study is to use social network analysis to determine associations between connections and DS in a gaming community. Design/methodology/approach As a pilot study, members of an online gaming site were asked to report demogr

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Henderson, Samantha, and Michael Gilding. "‘I’ve Never Clicked this Much with Anyone in My Life’: Trust and Hyperpersonal Communication in Online Friendships." New Media & Society 6, no. 4 (2004): 487–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146144804044331.

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