Hi Mark, Thanks a lot! This is very helpful. Can you please send me a copy of your paper when you have it? In World of Warcraft rather than homophily, there is a diversity of people playing together who have only the game in common. It might be an interesting contrast. Thanks again. -- Bonnie On Oct 31, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Mark Bell wrote:
Dr. Nardi,
This is what I have on Facebook. For myspace I would consult danah boyd (she is very hard to get a hold of her) or someone from her list (link below).
There is also an edition of JCMC that will be dealing with social networks and facebook and MySpace will be mentioned. I am preparing a submission for this now that studies homophily in Facebook groups.
Facebook:
Stutzman, Frederic (2006).An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities. iDMa Journal (In press). Burkart, Jenae Dissertation "College Social Networking; A Virtual Ethnography of Facebook.com" Stutzman, F. (2006) Our Lives, Our Facebooks. Presentation to the 2006 International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, BC. (http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/pubs/stutzman_pub6.pdf) Stutzman, F. (2006) Student Life on the Facebook. Originally a weblog posting - non-traditional academic work. Document (12p, pdf). http://www.msu.edu/~nellison/
This is more general stuff. General Social Software Research: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/08/19/ research_on_soc.html - you should be reading danah's blog if you are into this. http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/10/announcing-unc-social- software.html
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