Signals in Social Supernets

By Judith S. Donath. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The Relationship between Facebook Use and Well-Being depends on Communication Type and Tie Strength (2016, background): “For example, according to the theory of relational investment (Lin, 2001; Donath, 2008; Ellison et. al, 2014), the frequency and length of messages serve as signals of relationship value.”
Facebook as a toolkit: A uses and gratification approach to unbundling feature use (2011, background): “One of the norms of Facebook use is writing on Friends’ Walls with birthday greetings, a form of ‘‘social grooming’’ (Donath, 2007) on the site; writing these messages may be both a routine (or habitual) part of one’s Facebook experience and a form of maintaining relationships.”
Theories of Computer-Mediated Communication and Interpersonal Relations (2011, methodology): “To her credit, Donath (2007) has expanded the application of signaling to explain the benefits and potentials of social network sites in helping observers assess the veracity of others' online claims.”
Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices (2011, background): “Related research suggests that boundary conditions may affect the positive association between number of Friends and social capital levels such that the relationship is actually curvilinear.”
TUNES THAT BIND? (2009, background): “Donath (2007) questioned whether SNSs might thus “shift people's social world from one focused on a few important relationships to one consisting of an immense number of weak relationships.”
The virtual geographies of social networks: a comparative analysis of Facebook, LinkedIn and ASmallWorld (2009, background): “The positions of these earlier works were adapted to study how the structural features of online spaces influence self-presentation and expression (e.g. Dominick, 1999; Papacharissi, 2002b, 2007;Walker, 2000).”
Interactive Digital Advertising vs. Virtual Brand Community (2011, background): “According to Donath (2007), when the number of friends on social networking sites and the quality of personal relationships signal status and popularity, the benefits generated from social interactions motivate people to connect online.”
Growing closer on facebook: changes in tie strength through social network site use (2014, background): “Writing on friends’ walls or commenting on their photos is a form of social grooming that preserves connections between people [9].”
Social Connectivity in America: Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size From 2002 to 2007 (2010, background): “…dramatically proliferated in the number of users and applications, transforming from the early organization- and military-centered functions to the widespread use of social media services (e.g., boyd & Ellison, 2007; DiMaggio, Hargittai, Newman, & Robinson, 2001; Donath, 2007; Jones & Fox, 2009).”
Psychological Approaches to Credibility Assessment Online (2015, background): “Relatedly, signaling theory (Donath, 2007) argues that certain signals available about information sources—particularly those signals that are difficult to fake, are supported by the rule of law or social convention, or are costly to obtain or to mimic—are most reliable for assessing credibility.”
The Secret Life of Online Moms: Anonymity and Disinhibition on YouBeMom.com (2013, background): “Anonymity enables conventional signals (Donath 2007), signals which are unreliable or cannot necessarily be believed to be true.”
Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Their Role in Social Capital Processes (2014, background): “…speaks to the benefits associated with weaker, more heterogeneous social ties such as novel information and broadened worldviews (Burke et al., 2011; Ellison et al., 2007, 2011), in part because the site enables users to create “social supernets” of hundreds of social connections (Donath, 2007).”