UPDATE: This page is out-of-date. An updated list can be found here:
Research on Social Network Sites
Thank you!
I want to track down everyone who is actively doing research on social network sites. (Clarification: i’m looking for folks that are publishing in peer-reviewed spaces, not just researching for their company or blog.) Nicole Ellison and i are plotting to bring ways to bring everyone together. I’m also looking to create a list of all known publications. I know there’s more than what i’m listing so i need your help. Please!
Publications and Presentations
- Acquisti, Alessandro and Ralph Gross. 2006. “Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook.” Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Cambridge: June 28-30.
- Adamic, Lada, Orkut Buyukkokten, and Eytan Adar. 2003. “A social network caught in the Web.” First Monday.
- Backstrom, L., Huttenlocher, D., Kleinberg, J., & Lan, X. (2006). Group Formation in Large Social Networks: Membership, Growth, and Evolution. Paper presented at the KDD ’06, Philadelphia, PA.
- Barnes, Susan. 2006. A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States. First Monday.
- boyd, danah. (in press) “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.” MacArthur Foundation on Digital Learning, Identity Volume (ed. David Buckingham).
- boyd, danah. (in press) “None of this is Real.” Structures of Participation (ed. Joe Karaganis).
- boyd, danah. 2006. “Friends, Friendsters, and MySpace Top 8: Writing Community Into Being on Social Network Sites.” First Monday. 11(12), December.
- boyd, danah. 2006. “Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace.” Talk as AAAS 2006 (part of panel: “It’s 10PM: Do You Know Where Your Children Are … Online!”). St. Louis, Missouri: February 19.
- boyd, danah and Jeffrey Heer. 2006. “Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster.” Proceedings of the Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39) , Persistent Conversation Track. Kauai, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 4 – 7.
- boyd, danah. 2004. “Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networks.” Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna: ACM, April 24-29.
- Byrne, Dara. 2007. “The Future of (the) ‘Race’: Identity, Discourse and the Rise of Computer-mediated Public Spheres.” In MacArthur Foundation Book Series and Everett, A. (Eds.), Race and ethnicity volume.
- Donath, Judith and danah boyd. 2004. “Public displays of connection.” BT Technology Journal Vol 22, No 4. October, pp 71-82.
- Dwyer, Cathy. 2007. Digital Relationships in the ‘MySpace’ Generation: Results From a Qualitative Study HICSS 2007.
- Ellison, Nicole, Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe. 2006. “The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites.” JCMC 12(4).
- Fono, D., & Raynes-Goldie, K. (in press) Hyperfriends and Beyond: Friendship and Social Norms on LiveJournal. (In press). To appear in M. Consalvo & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), Internet Research Annual Volume 4: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conference. New York: Peter Lang.
- Gajjala, Radhika. (in-progress) “Production of Raced and Classed Selves as (Stereotypical) Interface: Social Networks at the Intersection of Online/Offline, Global/Local.” Cultural Studies Reader – edited by Michael Ryan.
- Geidner, Nicholas, Christopher Flook and Mark Bell. (in review) “Male Self-Identification on Facebook.com.” Communication Quarterly.
- Golder, Scott, Dennis Wilkinson, and Bernardo Huberman. Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging within a Massive Online Network.
- Gross, Ralph and Alessandro Acquisti. 2005. “Information Reveleation and Privacy in Online Social Networks.” ACM WPES Workshop.
- Heer, Jeffrey and danah boyd. 2005. “Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks.” IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005). Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25.
- Hewitt, Anne and Andrea Forte. 2006. “Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook.” Poster/Extended Abstract, CSCW 2006.
- Kapoor, N., Konstan, J., & Terveen, L. (2005). How Peer Photos Influence Member Participation in Online Communities. Paper presented at the CHI 2005.
- Liu, Hugo, Pattie Maes, Glorianna Davenport. 2006. “Unraveling the taste fabric of social networks.” International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 2(1), 42-71, Hershey, PA: Idea Academic Publishers.
- Marwick, Alice. 2005. “‘I’m a Lot More Interesting than a Friendster Profile’: Identity Presentation, Authenticity and Power in Social Networking Services.” Association of Online Internet Researchers. Chicago.
- Perkel, Dan. 2006. “Copy and Paste Literacy: Literacy Practices in the Production of a MySpace Profile.” Informal Learning and Digital Media. Odense Denmark: September 21-23.
- Preibusch, S., Hoser, B., Gürses, S., & Berendt, B. (2007). Ubiquitous
social networks ? opportunities and challenges for privacy-aware user
modelling. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Mining for User
Modelling at UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, June 2007. - Recuero, Raquel. 2005. “Um estudo do capital social gerado a partir das Redes Sociais no Orkut e nos Weblogs.” Trabalho apresentado no GT de Tecnologias da Comunicacao e da Informacao da COMPOS 2005, em Niteroi/RJ. (in Portuguese)
- Spertus, Ellen, Mehran Sahami and Orkut Buyukkokten. 2005. “Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network.” Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data.
- Stutzman, Frederic. 2006. “An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities.” iDMa Journal.
Hi,
Many many thanks to putting these wonderful reports together…extremely informative and helpful..thanks once again.
regards
Prabhat kiran
That’s great that you are trying to get people together that are doing research on social networking sites. I would love to see this come together because i want to hear peoples are thoughts on the sites.
There is now a new application on facebook which allows you to create questionnaires, surveys, polls, votes and petitions, answer them and invite your friends to answer them. You can display your answers to a questionnaire on your profile so people can get to know you better. We just launched it a couple of days ago, the questionnaires are up and running, polls votes and petitions will arrive in the next couple of days. In a few weeks time we hope to add commercial surveys where users get paid via paypal to answer surveys, but currently its all completely free, and you can view everyones answers to your surveys! We are adding more features all the time – it will soon be very powerful indeed. We are also willing to consider adding any feture you require on request!
Check it out:
http://apps.facebook.com/questionnaires
Best wishes,
Chris
Don’t know if you are aware or not, but there are a large number of reports and raw datasets available at the Pew Internet research site:
http://www.pewinternet.org/
I want to know who these people are because all too often, academia is such that we don’t know who is also doing work on the precise site that we’re studying. While there are theoretical and methodological axes that bring the broader community together, sometimes, knowing who is looking at the detailed nuances of the same site as you is super valuable.
Hi,
It is good to get such environment where we can share our view to promote social network. We are working in the field of social network with rough set. Glad to get a good timing with the enrolled society.
G K Panda
Director
MITS, Bhubaneswar, India
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Currently, iam a graduate student at Spalding Univ. in louisville, KY and I am performing group research in Social networking sites for a research methods class for my professor. We began with a focus group study. The next stage is a large survey and report findings/results. The greatest dificulty has been for me the research methods to be used. quantitative vs. qualitative, quota sampling, etc.
First of all, danah your work has been an amazing source of inspiration and information for my research!! I am currently undertaking Honours in Behavioural Studies at Monash University in Australia, looking at teenage girls and their online identities, especially on MySpace, and how these identities are both presentations of the self (goffman) and also liquid (bauman). A smaller under-grad project I did on this topic can be found at kirstyleigh-bhs.blogspot.com
I am conducting a research study on the effectiveness of social networking sites in tracing the graduates of our institution…Would you please give me some resources or some webpages that will help me in doing my review of related literature…
I hope for your favorable response..
Thank you..