COMM 555: Social Networks : Course Blog

Cohen, S., Brissette, I., Doyle, W. J., & Skoner, D. P.  (2000). Social Integration and Health: The Case of the Common Cold.  Journal of Social Structure 1(3).

Dickens, C.M., L. McGowen, C. Percival, J. Douglas, B. Tomensen, L. Cotter, A Heagerty, and F.H. Creed. (2004). Lack of Close Confidant, but not Depression, Predicts Further Cardiac Events After Myocardial Infraction. Heart 90(5): 518-522.

Bearman, P. S., Moody, J., & Stovel, K. (2004). Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks. American Journal of Sociology, 110(1), 44-91.

Christakis, Nicholas, and James Fowler. (2007). The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years. The New England Journal of Medicine, 357: 370-379.

Fowler, James and Nicholas Christakis. (2008). Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network. British Medical Journal.

Rogers, Everett. (2003). Diffusion Networks. Pp. 300-364 in Diffusion of Innovations. New York: The Free Press.

Coleman, James S., Elihu Katz, and H. Menzel. (1957). The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians. Sociometry 20: 253-270.

Rogers, Everett. (2003). Diffusion Networks. Pp. 300-364 in Diffusion of Innovations. New York: The Free Press.

Coleman, James S., Elihu Katz, and H. Menzel. (1957). The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians. Sociometry 20: 253-270.

Weimann, Gabriel. (1982). On the Importance of Marginality: One More Step into the Two-Step Flow of Communication. American Sociological Review 47(6): 764-773.

Markus, Lynne (1987). Toward a 'Critical Mass' Theory of Interactive Media: Universal Access, Interdependences and Diffusion. Communication Research 14(5): 491-511.

Ivkovic, Zoran, and Scott Weisbenner (2007). Information Diffusion Effects in Individual Investors' Common Stock Purchases: Covet Thy Neighbors' Investment Choices. The Review of Financial Studies 20(4): 1327-1357.

Hodgkinson, Tom. (2008, January 14). "With Friends Like These...". Guardian.

Steinfield, Charles, Nicole B Ellison, and Cliff Lampe. (2008). Social Capital, Self-esteem, and use of Online Social Network Sites. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 29:434-445.

Backstrom, Lars, Jonathan Chang, Cameron Marlow, and Itamar Rosenn (2009). "How Diverse is Facebook?" Palo Alto: Facebook.

Wellman, Barry (2001). Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25(2), 227-252.

Hampton, Keith N, Lauren F Sessions, and Eun Ja Her (2010). "Core Networks and New Technology: Internet, Call Phone Use, Network Size, and Diversity." Working Paper. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Hampton, Keith N, Eun Ja Her, and Chul-joo Lee (2010). "New Technology, Social Participation, and the Diversity of Social Networks."  Working Paper. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Hampton, Keith N, Oren Livio, and Lauren F Sessions. (in press). The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm. Journal of Communication.

Wellman, Barry, and Milena Gulia. (1999). Net-Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities. Pp. 331-366 in Networks in the Global Village, edited by Barry Wellman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Baym, N., Zhang, Y. B., & Lin, M.-C. (2004). Social Interactions Across Media: Interpersonal Communication on the Internet, Telephone and Face-to-Face. New Media & Society, 6(3), 299-318.

Haythornthwaite, Caroline. (2002). Strong, Weak and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media. The Information Society 18:1-17.

Hampton, Keith & Barry Wellman (2003). Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb. City and Community 2(4), 277-311.

Hampton, Keith (2007). Neighborhoods in the Network Society: The e-Neighbors Study. Information, Communication & Society 10(5). 714-748.

Hampton, Keith N (in press). Internet Use and the Concentration of Disadvantage. American Behavioral Scientist.

Mesch, Gustavo, & Talmud, Ilan. (2007). Similarity and the Quality of Online and Offline Social Relationships Among Adolescents in Israel. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 17(2), 455-466.

Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (1994). Chapter 6: Centrality and Prestige. In Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press.

Freeman, Linton. (1979). Centrality in Social Networks: Conceptual Clarification. Social Networks 1: 215-39.

Borgatti, Stephen. (2005). Centrality and Network Flow. Social Networks 27(1): 55-71.

Gmur, Markus. (2003). Co-citation Analysis and the Search for Invisible Colleges: A methodological Evaluation. Scientometrics 57(1): 27-57.

Park, Han Woo, and Loet Leydesdorff (2009). Knowledge Linking Structures in Communication Studies Using Citation Analysis Among Communication Journals. Scientometrics 81(1): 157-175.

Note: I have change the reading for next week by Fu (now on Blackboard).

Next week's readings:

Zwijze-Koning, K., & Jong, M. D. T. D. (2005). Auditing Information Structures in Organizations. Organizational Research Methods, 8(4), 429-453.

Marin, Alexandra & Keith Hampton (2007). Simplifying the Personal Network Name Generator: Alternatives to Traditional Multiple and Single Name Generators. Field Methods 19(2), 163-193.

van der Gaag, Martin, Tom .A.B. Snijders, and Henk Flap (2008). Position Generator Measures and Their Relationship to Other Capital Measures. Pp 27-48 in Social Capital: An International Research Program, edited by Nan Lin and Bonnie Erickson: Oxford, UK: Oxford.

Fu, Yang-chih (2007). Contact Diaries: Building Archives of Actual and Comprehensive Personal Networks. Field Methods, 19: 194-217

McCarty, Christopher, Molina, Jose Luis, Aguilar, Claudia, & Rota, Laura (2007). A Comparison of Social Network Mapping and Personal Network Visualization. Field Methods 19(2): 145-162.

McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin and James Cook. (2001). Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks. Annual Review of Sociology 27: 415-444.

Erickson, Bonnie. (1997). The Relational Basis of Attitudes. Pp. 99-122 in Social Structures: A Network Approach edited by Barry Wellman and S. D. Berkowitz. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Suitor, Jill, Karl Pillemer, and Shirley Keeton. (1995). When Experience Counts: The Effects of Experiential and Structural Similarity on Patterns of Support and Interpersonal Stress. Social Forces 73(4): 1573-1588.

Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan Watts. (2009). Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network. American Journal of Sociology 115(2): 405-450.

Goel, Sharad, Winter Mason, and Duncan Watts. (2010). "Real and Perceived Attitude Homophily in Social Networks." New York: Yahoo! Research.

Hill, R. A., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2003). Social Network Size in Humans. Human Nature, 14(1), 53-72.

Killworth, Peter, Eugene Johnsen, H Russell Bernard, Gene Ann Shelley, and Christopher McCarthy. 1990. Estimating the Size of Personal Networks. Social Networks 12: 289-312.

McCarty, Christopher, Killworth, Peter, Bernard, Russell, Johnson, Eugene, and Shelley Gene (2001). Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size. Human Organization.