From the results generated by these methods, I argue that Facebook, while new in many ways, is not inherently more disruptive to friendship than other forms of mediation that have preceded it and should be understood as part of a continuum of changes that have shaped the expression of friendship. These methods include a structured questionnaire, semi-structured interviewing and observation.

As such, this research takes a case study approach to Facebook which combines a variety of methods in order to approach the object of study.

To embody a critical realist approach in the social sciences is to use a combination of methods in order to elucidate the phenomena at hand. To address this focus, this research takes a critical realist approach.

The focus of the thesis is on understanding the interplay between the constraints of Facebook’s framework, and how users act within it. This thesis explores the ways in which Facebook is created as a space and how this space is produced through the presentation of the self and the friendships that Facebook contains.

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