(Online Dating News) In the age of Facebook, researcher plumbs shifting online relationships (PhysOrg)
Nancy Baym, associate professor of communication studies, became interested early on in how the Internet shapes interpersonal communication and of late has focused her research on social networking sites in particular. Indeed, across the social networking sites, online friendships range from close relationships with strong ties to looser affiliations with less connectivity but both types of friendships are useful. New research from Northwestern University finds that college students’ choice of social networking sites — including Facebook, MySpace and Xanga — is related to their race, ethnicity and parents’ education. The new example – a gene on the X chromosome called UTX – is found in 10% of cases of . A 12-year-old Dutch boy – bedridden for three years because of an inherited cardiac arrhythmia syndrome – can now join his friends on the soccer field thanks to a discovery made by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers. read more
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