Gender differences in social network development via mobile phone text messages: A longitudinal study Export

@article{citeulike:1356266, abstract = {We examined the development of face-to-face (FTF) social networks and mobile/cell phone text message (MPTM)-mediated social networks, and gender differences in the social network structure of 64 male and 68 female first-year undergraduate students. Social network analysis showed that MPTM social networks consisted of dyadic relationships, and its growth was slower than FTF social networks. The intimacy of friends who communicate via both FTF and MPTM was rated higher than those who communicate only via FTF. The structure of MPTM social networks coincided with known gender differences in network characteristics. Females tended to expand their MPTM social networks more than males. These findings suggest that patterns of interpersonal relationships for MPTM social networks corresponded to Matsuda's (2000) selective interpersonal relationship theory. 10.1177/0265407505056492}, author = {Igarashi, Tasuku and Takai, Jiro and Yoshida, Toshikazu}, citeulike-article-id = {1356266}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407505056492}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://spr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/5/691}, doi = {10.1177/0265407505056492}, journal = {Journal of Social and Personal Relationships}, keywords = {cellphones, cmc, friendships, gender, networks, technology}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {691--713}, posted-at = {2009-04-15 00:16:16}, priority = {2}, title = {Gender differences in social network development via mobile phone text messages: A longitudinal study}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407505056492}, volume = {22}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1356266 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1356266 N2 - We examined the development of face-to-face (FTF) social networks and mobile/cell phone text message (MPTM)-mediated social networks, and gender differences in the social network structure of 64 male and 68 female first-year undergraduate students. Social network analysis showed that MPTM social networks consisted of dyadic relationships, and its growth was slower than FTF social networks. The intimacy of friends who communicate via both FTF and MPTM was rated higher than those who communicate only via FTF. The structure of MPTM social networks coincided with known gender differences in network characteristics. Females tended to expand their MPTM social networks more than males. These findings suggest that patterns of interpersonal relationships for MPTM social networks corresponded to Matsuda's (2000) selective interpersonal relationship theory. 10.1177/0265407505056492 IS - 5 JF - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships EP - 713 TI - Gender differences in social network development via mobile phone text messages: A longitudinal study VL - 22 SP - 691 KW - cellphones KW - cmc KW - friendships KW - gender KW - networks KW - technology AU - Igarashi, Tasuku AU - Takai, Jiro AU - Yoshida, Toshikazu PY - 2005/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407505056492 ER -