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Utilizing content analysis on TheKnot.com to study an online wedding planning community for New Jersey

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Utilizing content analysis on TheKnot.com to study an online wedding planning community for New Jersey
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Thelin
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Alyson H.
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1980-
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John V.
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Susan
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Jennifer
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Hugh
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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As with other aspects of our culture today, wedding planning is increasingly discussed and implemented online. Information is disseminated through online media attention, advertising, and computer mediated communication. The latter provides an avenue through which the impact of community building and relational culture can be established. My dissertation analyzes an online wedding planning forum on TheKnot.com to exemplify the ways by which a community is built through online postings and discusses the characteristics of this community. Utilizing the uses and gratification theory, content gratifications are examined through the types of topics publically viewable on an active online wedding planning Website. Because of the extensive reach of such forums, one particular region, New Jersey, will be examined. Process gratifications will be discussed as participants share personal experiences from their time spent on this particular online bulletin board planning their wedding celebration. Furthermore, the dynamics of interaction among this group will be analyzed over the course of half a calendar year and will show the types of interaction taking place through content analysis.
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Communication, Information and Library Studies
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Weddings--Planning--New Jersey
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Content analysis (Communication)
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by Alyson H. Thelin
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