— In this paper we present information about our experiment with a social network of students from one school class. Each pupil has characterized his/her relationships to all sch...
ic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1682187 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics Working Paper Series Opinion Fluctuations and Disagreement in S...
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
—This paper reports preliminary results of an ongoing ethnographic study of people’s attitudes towards and adoption of Google Latitude, a location-tracking technology for mobil...
— This paper discusses ways of navigating online contact networks - networks of social connections defined under a relational context - on a way that can provide much more meani...