Ten Propositions for Communication Scholars Studying Space and Place

McAlister, Joan Faber

doi:10.1080/07491409.2016.1176785

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“…Proximity and space play an integral role in collegiate relationship construction and maintenance. Proximity influences the ways that individuals interact across various types of relationships, including relationships with faculty, staff, and friends (McAlister, 2016; Pokorny et al, 2017; Sailer & McCulloh, 2012; Small & Adler, 2019). For example, when commuter students are farther away from campus, they may feel less connected to their friendship networks and campus community as a whole (Anderson, 2020; Pokorny et al, 2017).…”

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Patterns of Undergraduate Student Interpersonal Interaction Network Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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In spring 2020, many U.S. colleges and universities rapidly shifted to online instruction and implemented social distancing policies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students experienced unprecedented disruption of their interpersonal academic and social networks due to the loss of physical proximity. We used egocentric network analysis and latent profile analysis with survey data from April 2020 and conducted follow-up interviews in September 2020 to examine some of the pandemic’s immediate effects on student interpersonal network change. We found the disappearance of interpersonal network patterns featuring coworkers and academic ties, as well as reductions in students’ overall number of connections and the role diversity of their networks. Results suggest potential ongoing reduction of peer academic relationships, implying that institutional personnel may need to pay particular attention to academic connections in online spaces and to regenerating students’ academic networks when on-campus physical spaces may again be used to support learning.

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