Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball

By Lee Humphreys. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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A lived informatics model of personal informatics (2015, background): “Location tracking is common and is a historically important branch of research in the Ubicomp community (e.g. [9,18,24,37,38]).”
A survey of trust in social networks (2013, background): “The public accessibility of Web-based social networks using mobile phones makes such platforms networks are as good as online banking at high nineties, suggesting that social networks are platform for the foreseeable future.”
Social Media Ethnography: The Digital Researcher in a Messy Web (2012, methodology): “In contrast, when methods associated with conventional ethnographic practice, such as interviews or participant observation, are engaged (Cox et al., 2008; Humphreys, 2007; Komito, 2011; Miller, 2011), they allow us to refigure social media as a fieldwork environment that is social, experiential and”
I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use foursquare - a social-driven location sharing application (2011, background): “Humphreys reports on a set of interviews about Dodgeball [15, 16], ﬁnding that Dodgeball provided mobile social connectivity and possibilities for “casual social congregation”.”
Communicative Affordances of Mobile Media: Portability, Availability, Locatability, and Multimediality (2015, background): “For example, Lee Humphreys (2007) suggested check-ins on Dodgeball were a mode of “social molecularization” where individuals come together to commune with those around them without previously being close friends.”
Social networking on smartphones: When mobile phones become addictive (2013, background): “Mobile technology is an important communication channel that facilitates social connections (Humphreys, 2008).”
Friendship and mobility: user movement in location-based social networks (2011, background): “For example , research has focused on building models of human movement an d dynamics [2, 12, 30], understanding the role of geographic d istance and social interaction [1, 11, 24, 26, 31] and the change of ou r perception of (media) space [15, 4].”
Interactive Digital Advertising vs. Virtual Brand Community (2011, background): “Online social networking creates social spaces, or third places, for creating and performing personal identity and community (Donath 2007; Hargittai 2007; Humphreys 2007).”