Comm 555 : Social Networks : Course Blog

Fernandez, Roberto and David Harris. (1992). Social Isolation and the Underclass. Pp. 257-293 in Drugs, Crime, and Social Isolation, edited by Adele Harrell and George Peterson: The Urban Institute.

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Cohen, S., Brissette, I., Doyle, W. J., & Skoner, D. P.  (2000). Social Integration and Health: The Case of the Common Cold.  Journal of Social Structure 1(3).

Dickens, C.M., L. McGowen, C. Percival, J. Douglas, B. Tomensen, L. Cotter, A Heagerty, and F.H. Creed. (2004). Lack of Close Confidant, but not Depression, Predicts Further Cardiac Events After Myocardial Infraction. Heart 90(5): 518-522.

Bearman, P. S., Moody, J., & Stovel, K. (2004). Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks. American Journal of Sociology, 110(1), 44-91.

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Christakis, N.A. & Fowler, J.H. (2007). The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years. The New England Journal of Medicine, 357: 370-379.

Coleman, James S., Elihu Katz, and H. Menzel. 1957. “The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians.” Sociometry 20: 253-270.

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Markus, Lynne (1987). Toward a ‘Critical Mass’ Theory of Interactive Media: Universal Access, Interdependences and Diffusion. Communication Research 14(5): 491-511.

Ivkovic, Zoran & Weisbenner, Scott (2007). Information Diffusion Effects in Individual Investors’ Common Stock Purchases: Covet Thy Neighbors’ Investment Choices. The Review of Financial Studies 20(4): 1327-1357.

Metcalf, Bob (2006, August 18). Guest Blogger Bob Metcalf’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks. VCMike’s Blog. Retrieved on January 1, 2007: http://vcmike.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/metcalfe-social-networks/

Marks, Paul (2006, June 9). Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites. New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200

Hodgkinson, Tom (2008, January 14). With friends like these... . The Gardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

Ellison, N., Steinfield, C., & Lampe, C. (2007). The Benefits of Facebook ‘Friends:’ Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html

Miyata, Kakuko, Boase, Jeffrey., & Wellman, Barry (2008). The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan. In Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, edited by James Katz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hampton, Keith & Neeti Gupta (forthcoming). Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi use in Public and Semi-Public Spaces, New Media & Society 10(4).

Hampton, Keith, et al (forthcoming). WiFi and Public Space, a Poor Interface? An Empirical Study of Wireless Internet Use and Sociability.

Wellman, Barry (2001). Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25(2), 227-252.

Vascellaro, Jessica (2007, January 16). Social Networking by Cellphone – More Companies Roll Out GPS services That Locate Your Friends – Or Your Kids. The Wall Street Journal, B1.

Kronholz , June (2003, February 13). After the Science Fair: Dear World, Please Stop Writing Me: A Girl's E-Mail Experiment Clogs In-Box for Weeks. The Wall Street Journal: A1.

Wellman, Barry and Milena Gulia. 1999. Net-Surfers Don’t Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities. Pp. 331-366 in Networks in the Global Village, edited by Barry Wellman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Baym, N., Zhang, Y. B., & Lin, M.-C. (2004). Social Interactions Across Media: Interpersonal Communication on the Internet, Telephone and Face-to-Face. New Media & Society, 6(3), 299-318.

Hampton, Keith & Barry Wellman (2003). Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb. City and Community 2(4), 277-311.

Hampton, Keith (2007). Neighborhoods in the Network Society: The e-Neighbors Study. Information, Communication & Society 10(5). 714-748.

Mesch, Gustavo, & Talmud, Ilan. (2007). Similarity and the Quality of Online and Offline Social Relationships Among Adolescents in Israel. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 17(2), 455-466.

The presentation should include at least the following elements:

• Identification of the key problem.
• Research question(s).
• A minimum of three citations of key research in the area.
• Research methods and procedure.
• Main strengths and weaknesses of your methods.

Zwijze-Koning, K., & Jong, M. D. T. D. (2005). Auditing Information Structures in Organizations. Organizational Research Methods, 8(4), 429-453.

Marin, Alexandra & Keith Hampton (2007). Simplifying the Personal Network Name Generator: Alternatives to Traditional Multiple and Single Name Generators. Field Methods 19(2), 163-193.

Lin, Nan, Yang-chih Fu, & Ray-May Hsung. (2001). The Position Generator: Measurement Techniques for Investigations of Social Capital. Pp. 57-84 in Social Capital: Theory and Research, edited by Nan Lin, Karen Cook, and Ronald Burt. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

van der Gaag, Martin & Tom .A.B. Snijders. (2005). The Resource Generator: Social Capital Quantification with Concrete Items. Social Networks 27(1): 1-29.

Fu, Yang-chih (2007). Contact Diaries: Building Archives of Actual and Comprehensive Personal Networks. Field Methods 19(2), 194-217.

McCarty, Christopher, Molina, Jose Luis, Aguilar, Claudia, & Rota, Laura (2007). A Comparison of Social Network Mapping and Personal Network Visualization. Field Methods 19(2): 145-162.

Huisman, Mark and Marijtje A.J. van Duijn. 2005. Software for Social Network Analysis. Pp. 270-316 in Peter Carrington, John Scott, and Stanley Wasserman (eds) Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Freeman, Linton. (1979). Centrality in Social Networks: Conceptual Clarification. Social Networks 1: 215-39.

Borgatti, Stephen. (2005). Centrality and Network Flow. Social Networks 27(1): 55-71.

Krebs, V. (2002). Uncloaking Terrorist Networks. First Monday, 7(4).

Valente, T., Unger, J., & Johnson, A. (2005). Do popular students smoke? The association between popularity and smoking among middle school students. Journal of Adolescent Health, 37, 323-329.

Readings:

Rogers, Everett, & Bhowmik Dilip (1970). Homophily-Heterophily: Relational Concepts for Communication Research. Public Opinion Quarterly 34(4): 523-38.

McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin and James Cook. (2001). Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks. Annual Review of Sociology 27: 415-444.

Erickson, Bonnie. (1997). The Relational Basis of Attitudes. Pp. 99-122 in Social Structures: A Network Approach edited by Barry Wellman and S. D. Berkowitz. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Suitor, Jill, Karl Pillemer, and Shirley Keeton. (1995). When Experience Counts: The Effects of Experiential and Structural Similarity on Patterns of Support and Interpersonal Stress. Social Forces 73(4): 1573-1588.

Moody, James (2001). Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America. American Journal of Sociology 107(3): 679-716.

Pearson, M., Steglich, C., & Snijders, T. (2006). Homophily and assimilation among sport-active adolescent substance users. Connections, 27(1), 47-63.

Hill, R. A., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2003). Social Network Size in Humans. Human Nature, 14(1), 53-72.

Killworth, Peter, Eugene Johnsen, H Russell Bernard, Gene Ann Shelley, and Christopher McCarthy. 1990. Estimating the Size of Personal Networks. Social Networks 12: 289-312.

McCarty, Christopher, Killworth, Peter, Bernard, Russell, Johnson, Eugene, and Shelley Gene (2001). Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size. Human Organization.