Announcing resources for researchers interested in Facebook
Hi everyone, I’d like to let you know about some resources that might be of interest to researchers interested in Facebook and other social-media platforms. I’ve been working on three things that might be of interest to the people on this list. *Review Article* We recently published the first comprehensive review of the Facebook literature, covering every empirical we could find published on FB through 2011. This project was borne out of a realization that there was a lot of research out there but we were frustrated not find any source that brought it all together. I realize, it’s a little shamelessly self-promoting to post this link, but hopefully some of you will find the article useful for your work! Wilson, R. E., Gosling, S. D., & Graham, L. T. (2012). A review of Facebook research in the social sciences. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(3), 203-220. [link to article: http://bit.ly/1237Jxt ] *Website * http://psych.wustl.edu/robertwilson/A-Z.html We hope our review article provides a good starting point for getting a sense for what research has and has not been done on Facebook but that document is static. So this website provides a rolling bibliography of every article we could find on Facebook (currently 475 articles). We attempted to catch them all but we inevitably will have missed some. So please keep us up-to-date with your research in this area so we can keep the bibliography current. *Facebook Group* (of course) https://www.facebook.com/groups/218411394935203 We created this Facebook Group as a forum for social scientists conducting research on Facebook (currently 153 members). Please join to see what other researchers are saying about Facebook (e.g., new findings, best-practice methods) and share interesting thoughts, papers, queries, or press articles about Facebook. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions about these resources. Robert Wilson PhD Candidate Washington University in Saint Louis wilsonreaustin at gmail dot com
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