Strong, Weak, and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media

By Caroline Haythornthwaite. The Information Society, 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as "Third Places" (2006, background): “In the case of the "pseudo-community" critique in particular, there is an implicit bias toward bonding social capital over bridging social capital—despite the long line of social analysis demonstrating the vital functions that bridging social capital serves (Granovetter, 1973, 1974; Haythornthwaite,”
Help from My “Friends”: Social Capital in the Social Network Sites of Low-Income Students (2011, background): “Although substantial research has been conducted to examine formal online learning communities (Tallent-Runnels, Thomas, Lan, & Cooper, 2006), fewer studies have tried to illuminate the types of interactions, exchanges of support, trust, sense of belonging, and social identity that characterize loos”
Social Media as Social Lubricant (2015, background): “Importantly, the finding that only enterprise social networking sites play a significant role in alleviating ambiguity in anticipation of knowledge transfer does not conflict with existing research that all individuals in organizations, including knowledge seekers, use multiple media to improve rela”
The influence of relationship networks on academic performance in higher education: a comparative study between students of a creative and a non-creative discipline (2016, background): “In fact, these learning processes do not arise in an individual context but through interpersonal communication processes (Lave and Wenger 1991; Haythornthwaite 2002).”
Distinguishing technologies for social interaction: The perceived social affordances of communication channels scale (2017, background): “These links form a network of known and latent ties (Haythornthwaite, 2002).”
Predicting tie strength with social media (2009, background): “Previous literature has proposed various manifestations of tie strength [17, 18, 21, 24].”
The virtual geographies of social networks: a comparative analysis of Facebook, LinkedIn and ASmallWorld (2009, background): “…of exchanges, frequency of contact, strength of ties, intimacy, qualitative elements of relations, size of networks, global or local span of networks and numerous other variables (Haythornthwaite, 2000, 2001, 2002a, 2002b, 2005; Haythornthwaite and Wellman, 1998; Haythornthwaite et al., 1995).”
Social Interaction and Co-Viewing With YouTube: Blending Mass Communication Reception and Social Connection (2009, background): “Regardless of the position taken, each view highlights the importance of one’s offline social activities and interpersonal interaction (Haythornthwaite, 2002).”
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience (2011, background): “These viewers are connected not only to the user, but to each other, creating an active, communicative network; connections between individuals differ in strength and meaning (Haythornthwaite, 2002; Boase et al., 2006).”
Social media and migration: Virtual community 2.0 (2011, background): “These individuals participate in a number of different networks but the members of networks may not know each other, leading to the phrase ‘networking individualism’ (Castells, 2001; Castells, Fernandez-Ardevol, Qiu, & Sey, 2006; Wellman & Haythornthwaite, 2002; Wellman et al., 2003).”
Social networks and Internet connectivity effects (2005, background): “…DeSanctis 1990; McLaughlin et al. 1995), they come to function as vital means of maintaining work and social connections in everyday life (Wellman & Haythornthwaite 2002), crossing social worlds of work, home, and geography (Haythornthwaite & Kazmer 2002; Salaff 2002; Haythornthwaite & Hagar…”
On and Off the 'Net: Scales for Social Capital in an Online Era (2006, background): “Haythornthwaite (2002) has been among the ﬁrst to speculate on how the tie strength approach may differ online and off.”