Graduate Program

Communication Studies

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Semester of Degree Completion

2011

Thesis Director

Richard Jones

Thesis Committee Member

Elizabeth Gill

Thesis Committee Member

Angela Jacobs

Abstract

Emerging adults and their parents have a unique relationship, especially during the transition into emerging adulthood. More specifically, as emerging adults and their parents navigate the waters of being Face book friends (FBF), they must learn to negotiate dialectical tensions, along with other prominent issues such as boundary management, impression management, managing tensions, and ease of communication Facebook provides. The core of this study centers around Baxter and Montgomery's (1996) theory on Relational Dialectics. Interviews with both emerging adults and their parents were conducted and analyzed to provide the results of this study. This study explores the intersection between social media, specifically Facebook, and family communication.

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