The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses

By Adalbert Mayer, Steven L. Puller. 2008

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LOOKING BEYOND THEM* (2010, positive): “Research by Mayer and Puller (2007), who merge confidential administrative data and information from Facebook.com to study the structure and composition of social networks on university campuses and investigate the processes that lead to their formation, is indicative of the potential in this area.”
Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far? (2011, background): “9 Marmaros and Sacerdote (2006) and Mayer and Puller (2008) both measure the relative frequency of within- versus cross-race interactions.”
Comparing Community Structure to Characteristics in Online Collegiate Social Networks (2008, background): “[25], and a snapshot from “a diverse private college in the Northeast U.”
Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research (2014, background): “For example, Golder et al. (2007) showed that private messaging by nonfriends took place primarily at late-night hours, Traud et al. (2010) compared the network structures of multiple universities, and Mayer & Puller (2008) modeled tie formation within one university.”
Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com (2008, background): “In the growing body of literature on SNSs, several articles have een published focusing on Facebook in particular (see especially ayer and Puller, 2008).”
Social Structure of Facebook Networks (2011, neutral): “An especially exciting aspect of studying SNSs is that they provide an opportunity ∗ Corresponding author at: Biomathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.”
Social networks (2009, neutral): “We ﬁnd that decisions differed in their degree of deliberation, and that respondents did not appear to weigh accessibility as they did other factors when seeking or getting help, instead engaging in a different decision-making process altogether.”
Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices (2011, background): “, 2006) and that most Facebook ‘Friend’ connections represent ‘in person’ relationships (Mayer and Puller, 2008; Subrahmanyam et al., 2008).”