How new media affords network diversity: Direct and mediated access to social capital through participation in local social settings

By Keith N. Hampton, Chul-joo Lee, E. J. Her. New Media & Society, 2011

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Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Acquisition: Using Social Media to Learn "Who Knows What" and "Who Knows Whom" (2015, background): “That people can articulate their social networks and tag documents and images produced by coworkers within social networking technologies gives outsiders further visibility into the communication partners of their peers (Hampton et al. 2011; Kane et al. 2014).”
The Use of Enterprise Social Network Sites for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Organizations (2015, background): “…may also enable knowledge sharing through their ability to function as “awareness systems” (Hermida, 2010) or systems of “pervasive awareness” (Hampton, Lee, & Her, 2011) on the organizational as well as individual levels, by making it possible to unobtrusively traverse the activities and…”
The Impact of Context Collapse and Privacy on Social Network Site Disclosures (2012, methodology): “Research by Hampton et al. (2011a) empirically demonstrates that higher diversity in one’s social network is associated with access to novel information, a key construct of bridging social capital.”
Growing closer on facebook: changes in tie strength through social network site use (2014, background): “Without an explicit “unfriending,” the connection and exchange of news persists [16].”
Social Media as Social Lubricant (2015, background): “94), similar to Hansen (1999), Reagans and McEvily (2003), and Levin and Cross (2004).”