Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

By Kevin Lewis, Jason Kaufman, Marco Gonzalez, Andreas Wimmer, Nicholas A. Christakis. Soc. Networks, 2008

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

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Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition? (2010, background): “In this respect, “homophily” may in fact be the end result of this process of culturally mediated contact selection rather than being its cause (Lewis et al 2008).”
Discretion Within Constraint: Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization (2012, positive): “There is evidence of such choice homophily in friendship networks among children (Shrum et al. 1988), college students (Marmaros and Sacerdote 2006, Lewis et al. 2008), and adults (Lazarsfeld and Merton 1954); confiding networks among adults (Marsden 1988); social support networks in the government…”
Twitter as Data (2018, background): “, 2011), social scientists (Lewis et al., 2008; Bond et al., 2012; Reich, Subrahmanyam and Espinoza, 2012), and humanists (Rahimi, 2011).”
PREDICTORS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENTIATED PRACTICES ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES (2010, background): “Researchers have found that White Facebook users may have more ethnically and racially homogeneous friendship networks than minority users (Lewis et al. 2008; Seder & Oishi 2009).”
Ethics of Social Media Research: Common Concerns and Practical Considerations (2013, neutral): “16 In this project, researchers downloaded a large dataset of Facebook information from a single university.”
"I Didn't Sign Up for This!": Informed Consent in Social Network Research (2015, neutral): “Zimmer (2010) discusses problems with the well-known T3 Facebook study conducted at Harvard (Lewis et al. 2008), and concludes that simply because a social network user chooses to share data on an SNS, this does not give a researcher the right to collect such data; on the contrary, researchers must ”
Comparing Community Structure to Characteristics in Online Collegiate Social Networks (2008, background): “een particularly overwhelming in numerous aspects of everyday life, becoming an especially popular obsession among college and high school students (and, increasingly, among other members of society) [1,2,23,25]. Facebook members can create self-descriptive proﬁles that include links to the proﬁles ”
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs (2010, background): “Some studies [3], [4] are based on complete datasets of specific FB communities, which are called “networks” within FB.”
CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA (2012, background): “In 2006, a Harvard-based research group started gathering the profiles of 1,700 collegebased Facebook users to study how their interests and friendships changed over time (Lewis et al. 2008).”
The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph (2011, background): “Some of this research has been devoted towards understanding small subsets of the Facebook population, including in particular the social networks of university students [17–19].”
Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research (2014, background): “…digital footprints of social interactions, from email (Kossinets & Watts 2006), to mobile telephones (Eagle et al. 2010), to social media (Lewis et al. 2008), affords unprecedented opportunities for the collection of both experimental and observational data on a scale that is at once…”