Conversations about adolescent “screen time” often start and end with worry: time online must be stealing attention from school. Our new study asks a different question: What if some of that unstructured time on social media, video games, and general web browsing builds skills that help students do better in school?

This write-up adds a much-needed update to Muller et al.’s (1999), “how to use SPSS to study ego-centered networks” by reviewing the process of restructuring and transposing name generator survey data in SPSS.