Computer Networks As Social Networks

By Barry Wellman. Science, 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Structure and time evolution of an Internet dating community (2002, background): “Indeed, for many people in contemporary Western societies, interaction on the Internet is as real as any other interaction (Wellman 2001).”
Help from My “Friends”: Social Capital in the Social Network Sites of Low-Income Students (2011, background): “Although substantial research has been conducted to examine formal online learning communities (Tallent-Runnels, Thomas, Lan, & Cooper, 2006), fewer studies have tried to illuminate the types of interactions, exchanges of support, trust, sense of belonging, and social identity that characterize loos”
Korean university life in a network perspective: Dynamics of a large affiliation network (2004, background): “These new available data sets have created a new sub-field of network-sociology ( 24 ) and are the main reasons statistical physicists (tradition ally working in the large size limit) have been joining this interdisciplinary field.”
Reconsidering Political and Popular Understandings of the Digital Divide (2004, background): “We need to move research away from the current predominance of ‘pundit suppositions, travellers tales and laboratory studies’ (Wellman, 2001: 2031) towards robust survey-based and in-depth qualitative work which begins to unpack the complexities of the digital divide as set out in this article…”
E-Mail as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations (2003, background): “Recently, there has been an increased amount of work on identifying online communities (a brief overview of this work can be found in Wellman, 2001 ).”
Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up" (2005, background): “The Internet poses new questions about the nature of social networks and opens new perspectives for social network analysis (Garton, Haythornthwaite, & Wellman, 1999; Wellman, 2001).”
A model of a trust-based recommendation system on a social network (2006, background): “Keywords Recommender system · Trust · Social network”
Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups (2007, background): “Investigation of the error distribution for the authorlines showed that the largest errors in prediction occurred where authorlines were coded as zeros, where uncertainty about role behavior was highest.”