Denise, In the Web searching area, there has been work in name searching, which is certainly a tie in. See Spink, A., Jansen, B.J., and Pedersen, J. 2004. Searching for People on Web Search Engines. Journal of Documentation <http://titania.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2320711/cl=47/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=emerald&reqidx=/cw/mcb/00220418/v60n3/s2/p266> . 60(3), 266-278. http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/academic/pubs/jansen_name_searching... <http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/academic/pubs/jansen_name_searching.pdf> Best, Jim ________________________________ Jim Jansen | College of Information Sciences and Technology | The Pennsylvania State University | 329F Information Sciences and Technology Building | University Park, PA 16802 | Office: 814-865-6459 | Fax: 814-865-6426 | Email: jjansen@acm.org | URL: http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/ <http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/> | Blog: http://jimjansen.blogspot.com/ <http://jimjansen.blogspot.com/> ________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Denise Bortree Sent: Fri 11/24/2006 7:04 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Reconnecting with friends online I'm looking for literature on reconnecting with friends online. Specifically, I'm starting a project on the way the internet can be used to search for and re-establish relationships with friends from former life stages. An initial literature search has generated very little. If you have done work in this area or are familiar with studies that have looked at this, I hope you will share. Thanks in advance. Denise Bortree Grad Student University of Florida _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

Hi Denise Not an academic paper but this might be an aspect you're interested in. The UK counselling service for couples, ‘Relate’, for instance, blames sites such as Friends Reunited for the surge in divorce rates (Barbour, 2005). Barbour, M. (2005). Holding it Together: Making Marriage Work. Channel 4 Website. Available at http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/F/family/21st/marriage.html. Last accessed 4 August 2006. Good luck with it. Sue -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Denise Bortree Sent: Saturday, 25 November 2006 00:04 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Reconnecting with friends online I'm looking for literature on reconnecting with friends online. Specifically, I'm starting a project on the way the internet can be used to search for and re-establish relationships with friends from former life stages. An initial literature search has generated very little. If you have done work in this area or are familiar with studies that have looked at this, I hope you will share. Thanks in advance. Denise Bortree Grad Student University of Florida _______________________________________________ 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 Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.14/548 - Release Date: 23/11/2006 15:22 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.16/551 - Release Date: 25/11/2006 10:55