Studying Online Social Networks

By Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Barry Wellman. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Social network analysis: a powerful strategy, also for the information sciences (2002, neutral): “Interest in networks, and in particular in social network analysis, has only recently bloomed in sociology [6, 7].”
Strong, Weak, and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media (2002, background): “Face-to-face meetings, social get-togethers, telephones, videoconferencing, e-mail and other computer media exist as means through which exchanges can occur, ties can be maintained, and networks can be sustained (Haythornthwaite et al., 1998; Garton et al., 1997; Rice, 1994; Wellman et al., 1996).”
Uses and Gratifications Theory in the 21st Century (2000, background): “Others predict a move beyond studying single users, two-person ties, and small groups, to analyzing the computer-supported social networks that flourish in areas as diverse as the workplace and in virtual communities (Garton, Haythornthwaite, & Wellman, 1997).”
The Role of Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams: A Social Network Perspective (2011, background): “the strength of the SNa perspective lies in the fact that it bridges the attributional and structural aspects of individual actions/behaviors, as opposed to simply focusing on their behaviors as if they exist in isolation [34, 36].”
De-lurking in virtual communities: a social communication network approach to measuring the effects of social and cultural capital (2004, background): “These connections and relationships can be based on online activity, thus allowing social network analysis to be applied to the study of online communities [ 11 ].”
A Cluster-based Approach for Automatic Social Network Construction (2010, background): “Tie stands for the combination of relationship between two actors [ 7 ].”
Combining qualitative evaluation and social network analysis for the study of classroom social interactions (2003, methodology): “Network analysis is also benefited by the use different sources ( Garton, Haythornthhaite, and Wellman, 1997 ).”
Crossmod: A Cross-Community Learning-based System to Assist Reddit Moderators (2019, background): “Scaling the idea of machine learning-based sociotechnical interventions up to groups interacting via an online community presents challenges, because of the social norms that emerge within a particular group [26].”
E-Mail as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations (2003, background): “Classical practice is to gather data from interviews, surveys, or other fieldwork and to construct links and communities by manual inspection (see Allen, 1984 ; Hinds & Kiesler, 1995 ) or an Internet-centric approach in Garton, Haythornwaite, and Wellman (1999) .”
Network Ethnography and the Hypermedia Organization: New Media, New Organizations, New Methods (2002, background): “The manager who does not adopt email may be isolated in an email network while retaining a central role in the firm, and information exchanged in face-to-face executive meetings will not reach lower-level workers (Garton et al., 1997).”
Relationships in online communities: the potential for marketers (2010, methodology): “Justification for the use of the internet as a data collection tool has been outlined by Garton et al. (1999)”
Social networks and Internet connectivity effects (2005, background): “The social network perspective emphasizes the importance of exchanges that support both work and social processes (Wasserman & Faust 1994; Garton et al. 1997; Wellman & Berkowitz 1997).”