Social network sites: definition, history, and scholarship

The benefits of Facebook “friends:” Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites.

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Information revelation and privacy in online social networks

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Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook

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Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution

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Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social LifePreprint

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Public displays of connection

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A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States

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Social networks and Internet connectivity effects

Haythornthwaite, C. (2005) · Information Communication & Society · doi:10.1080/13691180500146185 · Cited by 1,319 · see citing works

Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

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Trust and privacy concern within social networking sites: A comparison of Facebook and MySpace

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Social phishing

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Structure and evolution of online social networks

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I'll See You On “Facebook”: The Effects of Computer-Mediated Teacher Self-Disclosure on Student Motivation, Affective Learning, and Classroom Climate

Mazer, J. P., Murphy, R. E., & Simonds, C. J. (2006) · Communication Education · doi:10.1080/03634520601009710 · Cited by 1,091 · see citing works

A face(book) in the crowd

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Geographic routing in social networks

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Social structures: a network approach

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The Role of Friends’ Appearance and Behavior on Evaluations of Individuals on Facebook: Are We Known by the Company We Keep?: Facebook Friends and Individual Evaluations

Walther, J. B., Van Der Heide, B., Kim, S.-Y., Westerman, D., & Tong, S. T. (2008) · Human Communication Research · doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.2007.00312.x · Cited by 769 · see citing works

Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites

Boyd, D. (2006) · First Monday · doi:10.5210/fm.v11i12.1418 · Cited by 636 · see citing works

A familiar face(book)

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Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks (The Facebook case) Pre-proceedings version. ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2005

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Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks

Heer, J., & boyd, D. (2006) · IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization · doi:10.1109/infovis.2005.39 · Cited by 544 · see citing works

1 Rhythms of social interaction: messaging within a massive online networkPreprint

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Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck

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Friendster and publicly articulated social networking

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Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster

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Online Victimization of Youth: Five Years Later

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Evaluating similarity measures

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A social network caught in the Web

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Checking Out Facebook.com: The Impact of a Digital Trend on Academic Libraries

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Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging Within a Massive Online Network

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Vizster: visualizing online social networks

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Unraveling the Taste Fabric of Social Networks

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Letramento do copiar e colar? práticas de letramento na produção de um perfil MySpace

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'I’m a Lot More Interesting than a Friendster Profile': Identity Presentation, Authenticity and Power in Social Networking ServicesPreprint

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Language Networks on LiveJournal

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Analysing Social Networks Via the Internet

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Ubiquitous Social Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Privacy-Aware User ModellingPreprint

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Social interaction in virtual communities: the significance of technology

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Being There and Being Here Gendered Customising of Mobile 3G Practices Through a Case Study in Seoul

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Structural Link Analysis from User Profiles and Friends Networks: A Feature Construction Approach.

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Living in Cyworld: Contextualising Cy-Ties in South Korea

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Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for Visualizing FOAF

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Visualizing the Semantic Web

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Is Britney Spears Spam

Zinman, A., & Donath, J. S. (2007) · Conference on Email and Anti-Spam · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Pourquoi les jeunes adorent MySpace

boyd, D. (2007) · MédiaMorphoses · doi:10.3406/memor.2007.2279 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

The role of communication in business transactions and relationships

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Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media

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Consumer Brand Engagement in Social Media: Conceptualization, Scale Development and Validation

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The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

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A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication

Moorhead, S. A., Hazlett, D. E., Harrison, L., Carroll, J. K., Irwin, A., & Hoving, C. (2013) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.1933 · Cited by 2,517 · see citing works

Determinants of consumer engagement in electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) in social networking sites

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Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature

Kuss, D. J., & Griffiths, M. D. (2011) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph8093528 · Cited by 2,038 · see citing works

Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association

Treem, J. W., & Leonardi, P. M. (2013) · Annals of the International Communication Association · doi:10.1080/23808985.2013.11679130 · Cited by 2,113 · see citing works

Marketing through Instagram influencers: the impact of number of followers and product divergence on brand attitude

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Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites: A longitudinal analysis.

Steinfield, C., Ellison, N. B., & Lampe, C. (2008) · Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2008.07.002 · Cited by 1,919 · see citing works

Social Media Use for News and Individuals' Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Participation

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Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: Teenagers’ use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression

Livingstone, S. (2008) · New Media & Society · doi:10.1177/1461444808089415 · Cited by 1,780 · see citing works

Digital Finance and FinTech: current research and future research directions

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Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications

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Why people use social networking sites: An empirical study integrating network externalities and motivation theory

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Social networking sites and addiction: Ten lessons learned

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The relationship between addictive use of social media, narcissism, and self-esteem: Findings from a large national survey

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Information Privacy Research: an Interdisciplinary Review1

Smith, H. J., Dinev, T., & Xu, H. (2011) · MIS Quarterly · doi:10.2307/41409970 · Cited by 2,013 · see citing works

Tweets and the Streets : Social Media and Contemporary Activism

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Facebook and academic performance

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Social comparison, social media, and self-esteem.

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The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready

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The Presentation of Self in the Age of Social Media: Distinguishing Performances and Exhibitions Online

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Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining

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Online and offline social networks: Use of social networking sites by emerging adults

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Understanding Generation Y and their use of social media: a review and research agenda

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Findings on Facebook in higher education: A comparison of college faculty and student uses and perceptions of social networking sites

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Why do people use Facebook?

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Wisdom of Crowds: The Value of Stock Opinions Transmitted Through Social Media

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The Social Internet of Things (SIoT)—When social networks meet the Internet of Things: Concept, architecture and network characterization

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The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

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A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences

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Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization

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Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations

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Echo Chamber or Public Sphere? Predicting Political Orientation and Measuring Political Homophily in Twitter Using Big Data: Political Homophily on Twitter

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Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship in a Digital Age

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<i>Facebook</i>, social integration and informal learning at university: ‘It is more for socialising and talking to friends about work than for actually doing work’

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Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter

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Online Social Network Site Addiction: A Comprehensive Review

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Online communication, social media and adolescent wellbeing: A systematic narrative review

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How Does Brand-related User-generated Content Differ across YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter?

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Tastes, ties, and time: a new social network dataset using Facebook.com

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Sociality Through Social Network Sites

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Social research 2.0: virtual snowball sampling method using Facebook

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Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository

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The role of social media in higher education classes (real and virtual) – A literature review

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Problematic social media use: Results from a large-scale nationally representative adolescent sample

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Social network use and personality

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Social media as a destination marketing tool: its use by national tourism organisations

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Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices

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‘You have one identity’: performing the self on Facebook and LinkedIn

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The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing

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What’s Different about Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda1

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“But the data is already public”: on the ethics of research in Facebook

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Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube

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Emergency knowledge management and social media technologies: A case study of the 2010 Haitian earthquake

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Social media and disasters: A functional framework for social media use in disaster planning, response, and research

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Predicting user acceptance of collaborative technologies: An extension of the technology acceptance model for e-learning

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Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication

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Cultural difference in motivations for using social network sites: A comparative study of American and Korean college students

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Demographic differences in perceived benefits from gamification

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Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences

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Analyzing and modeling real-world phenomena with complex networks: a survey of applications

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The dark side of social networking sites: An exploration of the relational and psychological stressors associated with Facebook use and affordances

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Power through the algorithm? Participatory web cultures and the technological unconscious

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries

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Tweet this: A uses and gratifications perspective on how active Twitter use gratifies a need to connect with others

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NORMALIZING TWITTER

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