Growing closer on facebook: changes in tie strength through social network site use

By Moira Burke, Robert E. Kraut. 2014

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “For instance, in-depth user interviews may help to explore how social media usage aﬀects social ties (Burke and Kraut, 2014).”
The Social Media Party: Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), Social Media Intensity, Connection, and Well-Being (2020, background): “A small body of research has found that social media use can help build bridging, bonding, and maintained social capital (Burke & Kraut, 2014; Ellison et al., 2007; Riedl, Köbler, Goswami, & Krcmar, 2013).”
The Welfare Effects of Social Media (2019, background): “…still had 3Correlation studies on active vs. passive Facebook use include Burke, Marlow and Lento (2010), Burke, Kraut and Marlow (2011), Burke and Kraut (2014), and Krasnova et al. (2013), and randomized experiments include Deters and Mehl (2012) and Verduyn et al. (2015). their accounts…”
Motivators of online vulnerability: The impact of social network site use and FOMO (2017, background): “While at odds with previous research into the purported psychosocial benefits of engaging in SNS (Burke & Kraut, 2014; Ellison et al., 2007), this result was not entirely unexpected.”
Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence. (2015, background): “Although some evidence suggests that certain types of active Facebook usage enhance positive outcomes such as social connectedness (Burke & Kraut, 2014; Deters & Mehl, 2013; Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007), we did not observe any relationship between active Facebook usage and well-being in the…”
Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review (2017, background): “In contrast, in a more recent longitudinal study (Burke & Kraut, 2014), relationship closeness between friends (i.e., bonding social capital) was found to increase with one-on-one communication (i.e., active Facebook usage ) as well as through reading friends' broadcasted content (i.e., passive…”
Loneliness and Social Internet Use: Pathways to Reconnection in a Digital World? (2018, background): “First, the use of social networking sites has been shown to strengthen ties with others and increase social connections (Burke & Kraut, 2014; Sheldon, Abad, & Hinsch, 2011).”
The Relationship between Facebook Use and Well-Being depends on Communication Type and Tie Strength (2016, background): “Burke and Kraut (2014) showed that broadcast wall posts on Facebook as well as targeted comments were associated with increases in tie strength while exchanges of one-click communications such as likes and pokes were not.”
Estimating peer effects in networks with peer encouragement designs (2016, background): “In the absence of this peer encouragement design, scientists and decision makers could instead rely on observational data to study the effects of receiving feedback (10, 55).”
Identifying Platform Effects in Social Media Data (2016, background): “As people accept suggested links and begin interacting, the underlying phenomenon (the relationships and the network effects) changes, whether for good (Burke and Kraut 2014) or ill (Kwan and Skoric 2013).”