This article reviews weblogs and their role as a social networking device for young people and its probable evolution to the organizational computing medium. The motivation of you...
Previous research has shown a relationship between use of social networking sites and feelings of social capital. However, most studies have relied on self-reports by college stud...
In this paper we describe the results of a controlled study of a social game, Magpies, which was built on the Facebook Online Social Network (OSN) and enhanced with contextual soc...
Ben Kirman, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan, Francesco...
"Blogging" is a Web-based form of communication that is rapidly becoming mainstream. In this paper, we report the results of an ethnographic study of blogging, focusing ...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, Michelle Gumbre...
There has been extensive research into friend-oriented and professional social networking websites, but relatively little work on passion-oriented sites designed to connect strang...