COMM 481: Social Networks

» Are Online Networks and Relationships Good or Bad? from Social Network Blog - r10
Kleinberg discusses web pages as if they were nodes in a social network. He looks at the organic growth of the World Wide Web and research that tries to understand if the concepts such as centrality, prestige, in-degree, and out-degree... [Read More]

» computerized networks from Social Network Blog - y1
Kleinberg and Lawrence’s paper gives an overview of how the web works. The authors explain the different components of the web, “the core, upstream, downstream and tendril regions” (1849) at the local level, and also how the web behaves like... [Read More]

» Facebook: a little stalker-ish? from Social Network Blog - y8
“The Structure of the Web,” looks at the evolution of the web as a new medium for communication. Jon Kleinberg and Steve Lawrence, point out that unlike other networks in our past, the web is a virtual network of different... [Read More]

» Structure of Personalized Cyber Networks from Social Network Blog - g16
I was a little skeptical of the Michigan State University sociological study on Facebook and social capital at first, as there have been plenty of lame discussions in other classes about the performance of identity on online social networking sites.... [Read More]

» finally, facebook! from Social Network Blog - r5
Steinfield This study found that certain kinds of facebook use appear to facilitate the maintenance and formation of social capital of all kinds. what are some of the negatives that can come using facebook/ the invention of facebook? Would... [Read More]

» Big Brother Watches... from Social Network Blog - g44
A soon as I finished the second paragraph of the Marks article I went directly to Facebook and erased my personal information from the prying eyes of the NSA! The thought that the government is actively funding research in order... [Read More]

» Facebook craze from Social Network Blog - y35
Each of this week’s readings described virtual networks as real realms with nearly tangible boundaries and structures. “The Structure of the Web” by Jon Kleinberg and Steve Lawrence exposes the secret structure that lies underneath the chaotic surface ... [Read More]

» And then there was Facebook from Social Network Blog - g18
This week’s first article, “The Structure of the Web” by Jon Kleinberg and Steve Lawrence, discussed the way that the internet itself functioned as a web. Though more specifically discussing the paths between web pages and online “neighborhoods”, there... [Read More]

» All this reading about the internet and facebooking, and I only logged in once!... ok twice from Social Network Blog - g3
The group of readings for this week recapped most of the concepts we have been covering in class thus far and tied them into the development of online communities. With so many common threads of physical communities and networks, have... [Read More]

» Networking Websites from Social Network Blog - g23
Kleinberg and Lawrence discuss the structure of the Web and its four components - the core, upstream, downstream, and the tendril regions. They state, "The web contains a large, strongly connected core in which every page can reach every other... [Read More]

» Effects of Online Communication from Social Network Blog - y10
As Watts would argue, the Kleinberg & Lawrence study looks at the World Wide Web as part of “networks that symbolize communities of knowledge” (253) and it seems like the Web seems to have many similarities to social networks. So... [Read More]

» Casper on the Web: Invisisbility and Fluidity from Social Network Blog - g33
This week's readings continued to focus on cyberspace and its effects on social networks. In The Structure of the Web, Kleinberg and Lawrence speak in detail about the web and how there is no concrete architecture within which to... [Read More]

» "The Man's" Watching You from Social Network Blog - y11
The four readings of the week focused on the internet and its ability to act as a social network enabler vs. disabler, and the issues surrounding the internet’s effect on social capital. In “The Structure of the Web”, the authors... [Read More]

» Profiling the Internet from Social Network Blog - g10
I was actually amused by the first article, “Pentagon sets its sight on social networking websites,” in which the author, Paul Marks, examines the Pentagon’s growing interest in the information that people post on various social networking websites. Ar... [Read More]

» Online infomation & the dangers from Social Network Blog - y7
Barrry Wellman’s article “Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking” looks at how networks of community exist in physical places but also how the development of computer-supported community networks affects access to resources.... [Read More]

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