Golder et al: Tweet, tweet, retweet: Conversational aspects of retweeting on twitter Java, et al. Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities Marwick, et al. I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience Naaman, et al. Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams Honeycutt, et al. Beyond microblogging: Conversation and collaboration via Twitter. Danah Boyd does a lot of work in this area. http://www.danah.org/papers/ Hope this helps .. Cheers, Mike <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1348556> -- Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Nicholas John <nikjohn@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Colleagues There's quite a nicely developed literature on the motivations behind contributing to Wikipedia and peer-produced software (e.g. Linux), but I wonder if there are notable studies on the motivations for updating statuses in Facebook and Twitter. References would be welcome. Thanks in advance Nicholas _______________ Dr. Nicholas John sociothink.com nicholasjohn.tel _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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