Using egocentric networks to understand communication Export

@article{citeulike:440118, abstract = {Social-network analysis generally helps researchers understand how groups of people interact. In this article the author uses small-scale egocentric social networks, based on volitional, explicit connections, to understand how people manage their personal and group communications. Two research projects using this approach show that such networks can give researchers important insight into the people who communicate online. Soylent, a project based on email, shows several common patterns in social interaction. The Roles project, based on Usenet newsgroups, suggests that various online social spaces can behave very differently from each other.}, author = {Fisher, D.}, citeulike-article-id = {440118}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1510601}, comment = {Paper in Internet Computing from Danyel Fisher at Microsoft Research's Community Technologies group}, journal = {Internet Computing, IEEE}, keywords = {community, network, social}, number = {5}, pages = {20--28}, posted-at = {2005-12-16 21:48:49}, priority = {3}, title = {Using egocentric networks to understand communication}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1510601}, volume = {9}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:440118 L3 - citeulike-article-id:440118 N2 - Social-network analysis generally helps researchers understand how groups of people interact. In this article the author uses small-scale egocentric social networks, based on volitional, explicit connections, to understand how people manage their personal and group communications. Two research projects using this approach show that such networks can give researchers important insight into the people who communicate online. Soylent, a project based on email, shows several common patterns in social interaction. The Roles project, based on Usenet newsgroups, suggests that various online social spaces can behave very differently from each other. IS - 5 JF - Internet Computing, IEEE EP - 28 TI - Using egocentric networks to understand communication VL - 9 SP - 20 KW - community KW - network KW - social N1 - Paper in Internet Computing from Danyel Fisher at Microsoft Research's Community Technologies group AU - Fisher, D PY - 2005/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1510601 ER -