Weak Ties in Networked Communities

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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Internet Communication, Geographic Community, and Social Capital in Crisis (2007, background): “The Internet has the potential to bridge and expand social networks (Kavanaugh et al., 2005). One of the authors of this article ran a telephone response center for his university immediately after the storm. The hotline’s number was emailed exclusively to the university community. That single broad”
Governance by algorithms: reality construction by algorithmic selection on the Internet (2017, background): “At the same time, however, new forms of connectivity (Van Dijck, 2013), new bonds and (weak) ties (Kavanaugh et al., 2005) are created.”
Being Immersed in Social Networking Environment: Facebook Groups, Uses and Gratifications, and Social Outcomes (2009, neutral): “8 However, previous studies do not focus on different types of Facebook applications that function uniquely to satisfy different needs.”
Social media and migration: Virtual community 2.0 (2011, background): “mutual support, are taken to be indicative of ‘community’ (Gilbert et al., 2010; Kavanaugh et al., 2003; Wellman, Haase, Witte, & Hampton, 2001; Wellman et al., 2003).”
Social Recommendation with Strong and Weak Ties (2016, background): “Social ties have been widely studied in social science [10, 11, 21, 22].”