Reference Pool

Important: This page has not been updated since about 2008

A couple of years ago researchers were hard pressed to find anything written, officially or formally, about Facebook.com in the world of academia. Now, looking around the web one quickly finds droves of reports and papers on the topic. Originally this reference pool was a wiki, but since uniform formatting and interest in organization became issues Jeff decided to move it over to a static page.

Everything is organized by subject and then by source type. Links are provided in many cases, and if you notice something is missing or want to suggest a new resource please do! Some areas may overlap and some articles may fall under multiple categories.

You might also consult the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. There are many good sources here, some of which relate to Social-Networking Services.

Growth, Size And Usage

Resources on the growth (change/dynamics), pervaisveness, and usage (frequency, duration, intensity) of SNS, usually Facebook.

Publications

• Golder, Scott, Dennis Wilkinson, and Bernardo Huberman. “Rhythms of social interaction: messaging within a massive online network.” HP Labs, 2005. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/facebook/facebook.pdf
• boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.
• Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong. (2006). Living in Cyworld : Contextualising Cy-Ties in South Korea. In Bruns, A. and Jacobs, J. (Eds.) Use of Blogs (Digital Formations). New York: Peter Lang.
• Spertus, Ellen, Mehran Sahami and Orkut Buyukkokten. (2005). Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network. Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• Heer, Jeffrey and danah boyd. (2005). Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005). Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25.
• Herring, Susan C., John C. Paolillo, Irine Ramos-Vielba, Inna Kouper, Elijah Wright, Sharon Stoerger, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Benjamin Clark. (2007). Language networks on LiveJournal. Proceedings of the Fortieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press.
• Kumar, Ravi, Jasmine Novak, & Andrew Tomkins. (2006) Structure and evolution of online social networks. ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data, KDD’06, August 20–23, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Liben-Nowell, David, Jasmine Novak, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Andrew Tomkins. (2005) Geographic routing in social networks. Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sci. 102 (33) 11623-11628.

Masters Theses and School Papers

• Hogan, Bernie (2008 Forthcoming) Analyzing Social Networks via the Internet. In Fielding, N., Lee, R., and Blank, G. (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA.

Websites, Blog Posts, and other Internet Resources

• Abram, Carolyn. Have a taste… The Facbeook Blog. Feb 23 2007.
  

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2245132130

• Arrington, Michael. 85% of College Students use Facebook. Techcrunch. Sep 7 2005. [http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/07/85-of-college-students-use-facebook
  

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/07/85-of-college-students-use-facebook]

• Lipsman, Andrew. “Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults.” ComScore. Jul 5 2007. http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1519
• Lipsman, Andrew. “More than Half of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older, as the Site’s Demographic Composition Continues to Shift.” Comscore. Oct 5 2006.
  

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1019

• Lipsman, Andrew. “Social Networking Goes Global.” Comscore. Jul 31 2007.
  

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1555

• Wakabayashi, Daisuke, Michele Gershberg, Yinka Agedoke, and Peter Henderson. Microsoft reportedly in talks to invest in Facebook. Reuters.com. Sep 25 2007.
  

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWEN121420070925?sp=true

• Sherrets, Doug. Facebook Features Flowing: A Chat With Facebook´s "pressguy"; Chris Hughes & Some Analysis/Predictions. Minority Rapport. Sep 2 2005.
  

http://www.minorityrapport.com/2005/09/facebook_featur.html

• Rosenbush, Steve. Facebook´s on the Block. Businessweek.com. March 28, 2006. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2006/tc20060327_215976.htm
• “Facebook Extends Lead As Fave Young Adult Site.” Emarketer.com. Mar 2 2007.
  

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1004636

• Delaney, Kevin J., Robert A. Guth, and Vauhini Vara. “Microsoft Fires Volley At Google in Ad Battle.” The Wall Street Journal. Sep 25 2007. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119065193646437586.html
• Freiert, Max. “14 Million people interacted with Facebook Applications in August.” Compete.com. Sep 14 2007. http://blog.compete.com/2007/09/14/facebook-activity-breakdown-application/
• Freiert, Max. “Facebook now ranked 3rd in Page Views; MySpace down nearly 20%.” Compete.com. Sep 11 2007. http://blog.compete.com/2007/09/11/facebook-third-biggest-site-page-views-myspace-down/
• Holahan, Catherine, Robert Hof, and Spencer Ante. “FacebooK: $10 Billion Social Network?” BusinessWeek.com. Sep 25 2007. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2007/tc20070924_995913.htm?chan=search
• Rosenbush, Steve. “Facebook’s on the Block.” Businessweek.com. March 28, 2006.
  

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2006/tc20060327_215976.htm

• Stutzman, Fred. “Facebook’s New World.” Unit Structures. Dec 12 2007.
  

http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/12/facebooks-new-world.html

• Stutzman, Frederick. “The Vibrancy of Online Social Space.” Unit Structures. Sep 10 2007.
  

http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-essay-vibrancy-of-online-social.html

Identity and SNS

Resources related to digital identity, profiles and identity, and the online performance arena.

Publications

• boyd, danah. (2007, May). Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? Knowledge Tree.
• Liu, H. (2007). Social network profiles as taste performances. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 13.
  

• Kim, K.-H., & Yun, H. (2007). Cying for me, Cying for us: Relational dialectics in a Korean social network site. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 15.

Conference Papers

• boyd, danah and Jeffrey Heer. (2006). Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster. Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), Persistent Conversation Track. Kauai, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 4 - 7.
• boyd, danah. (2004). Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networks. Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna: ACM, April 24-29.
• Lampe, Cliff, Ellison, Nicole, and Steinfeld, Charles. (2007). A Familiar Face(book): Profile Elements as Signals in an Online Social Network. Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2007, New York, NY, USA. San Jose, CA, ACM Press.
• Marwick, Alice. (2005). 'I'm a Lot More Interesting than a Friendster Profile': Identity Presentation, Authenticity and Power in Social Networking Services. Association of Online Internet Researchers. Chicago.
• Hsu, William H., Joseph Lancaster, Martin S.R. Paradesi, & Tim Weninger. (2007). Structural link analysis from user profiles and friends networks: a feature construction approach. Boulder, CO: ICWSM '2007.
• Kapoor, Nishikant, Joseph Konstan, & Loren Terveen. (2005). How Peer Photos Influence Member Participation in Online Communities. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005, April 2–7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Theses and School Papers

• boyd, danah. (2002, Sep). Faceted ID/Entity: Managing Representation in a Digital World. Masters Thesis. http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/danah/thesis/danahThesis.pdf
• Scharmen, Fred (2006, May). You Must Be Logged In To Do That! Yale Arch 752b.

Community and Social Capital

I sort of smooshed community and social capital (the definition varies) into one category because they're so often related.

Publications

• Ellison, Nicole, Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe. (2006). The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites. JCMC 12 (4).
• Donath, J. (2007). Signals in social supernets. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 12.
• Adamic, Lada, Orkut Buyukkokten, and Eytan Adar. (2003). A social network caught in the Web. First Monday8 (6).
• boyd, danah. (Forthcoming) None of this is Real. Structures of Participation (ed. Joe Karaganis).
• boyd, danah. (2006). Friends, Friendsters, and MySpace Top 8: Writing Community Into Being on Social Network Sites. First Monday. 11 (12), December.
• Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong. (2006). Living in Cyworld : Contextualising Cy-Ties in South Korea. In Bruns, A. and Jacobs, J. (Eds.) Use of Blogs (Digital Formations). New York: Peter Lang.
• Hjorth, Larissa. (2008, forthcoming) Home and away: a case study of Cyworld mini-hompy by Korean students studying abroad in Australia. Asian Studies Review, The Internet in East Asia special issue (ed) Anne McLaren.
• Pearson, Erika. (2007) Digital gifts: Participation and gift exchange in LiveJournal communities. First Monday 12 (5).
• Recuero, Raquel. (2005). O Capital Social em Redes Sociais na Internet. Revista FAMECOS, Porto Alegre, v. 28, n. dez 2005, p. 1-15, 2005. (Social Capital in Internet Social Networks) (in Portuguese) This paper compares social capital found in five Orkut Brazilian communities and social capital found in five weblog communities. It is based on a 2 year qualitative research about weblog communities and orkut communities.
• Recuero, Raquel. (2005). Um estudo do capital social gerado a partir das Redes Sociais no Orkut e nos Weblogs. Trabalho apresentado no GT de Tecnologias da Comunicacao e da Informacao da COMPOS 2005, em Niteroi/RJ. (in Portuguese)
• Recuero, Raquel. (2004). Teoria das Redes e Redes Sociais na Internet: Considerações sobre o Orkut, os Weblogs e os Fotologs. In: XXVII Intercom, 2004, Porto Alegre. Anais do XXVII Intercom, 2004. (Network Theory and Social Networks in the Internet: Considerations about Orkut, Fotologs and Weblogs) (in Portuguese) This paper is about orkut's social appropriation by Brazilians. It is my first paper dealing with social neworks and network theory. It is more of an essay about how much of "new network's theory" (Barabási, Watts, Newman, Adamic and so on) could be qualitative observed within orkut, weblogs and fotologs.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• Ellison, Nicole, Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe. “Spatially Bounded Online Social Networks and Social Capital: The Role of Facebook.” Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Dresden, Germany: June 19-23, 2006.
• Lampe, Cliff, Ellison, Nicole, and Steinfeld, Charles. (2006). A face(book) in the crowd: social searching vs. social browsing. Banff, Alberta, Canada: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work.
• Ginger, Jeff. (2007, Nov). The Facebook Project: Social Capital and the Chief Presentation. Diversity Research Project: Assessing Campus Climate. Ethnography of the University Initiative Student Conference.
• Backstrom, Lars, Dan Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, & Xiangyang Lan. (2006). Group Formation in Large Social Networks: Membership, Growth, and Evolution. KDD '06, Philadelphia, PA.
• Fono, David & Raynes-Goldie, Kate. (2006) Hyperfriends and Beyond: Friendship and Social Norms on LiveJournal. M. Consalvo & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), Internet Research Annual Volume 4: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conference. New York: Peter Lang.
• Herring, Susan C., John C. Paolillo, Irine Ramos-Vielba, Inna Kouper, Elijah Wright, Sharon Stoerger, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Benjamin Clark. (2007). Language networks on LiveJournal. Proceedings of the Fortieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press.
• Kapoor, Nishikant, Joseph Konstan, & Loren Terveen. (2005). How Peer Photos Influence Member Participation in Online Communities. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005, April 2–7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA.
  

Theses and School Papers

• Kelsic, Eric D. (2005). Understanding complex networks with community-finding algorithms. SURF 2005 final report, Cal-Tech.
• Ginger, Jeff. (2007, Dec). The Facebook Project: Social Capital and the Chief. The Facebook Project.com.

Privacy, Safety and Trust

The most researched area on Facebook and SNS in general - privacy, trust, and exposure in the system.

Publications

• Madden, Mary, Susannah Fox, Aaron Smith and Jessica Vitak. (2007). Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency. PEW Internet & American Life Project.
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center. (2007). Sharing, Privacy and Trust in our Networked World. A Report to the OCLC Membership.
• Stutzman, Frederic. (2006). An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities. iDMa Journal.
• boyd, danah. (2008, Forthcoming). Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence. Convergence 14 (1), February 2008.
• Barnes, Susan. (2006). A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States. First Monday 11 (9), July 2006.
• Hodge, Matthew J. (2006). The Fourth Amendment and privacy issues on the "new" internet: Facebook.com and MySpace.com. Southern Illinois University Law Journal, 31.
• Zeynep Tufekci. (Forthcoming). [http://userpages.umbc.edu/~zeynep/papers/ZeynepCanYouSeeMeNowBSTS.pdf Can You See Me Now? Audience and Disclosure Regulation in

Online Social Network Sites]. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• Hogben, Giles. (2007, Oct). Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks. European Network and Information Security Agency, Position Paper No. 1.
• Acquisti, Alessandro and Ralph Gross. (2006). Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook. 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Cambridge: June 28-30.
• Dwyer, Catherine, Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Katia Passerini (2007). Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison ofFacebook and MySpace, Proceedings of AMCIS 2007, Keystone, CO.
• Gross, Ralph and Alessandro Acquisti. (2005). Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks. ACM WPES Workshop.
• Hewitt, Anne and Andrea Forte. (2006). Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook. Poster/Extended Abstract, CSCW 2006.
• Preibusch, Soren, Bettina Hoser, Seda Gurses, & Bettina Berendt. Ubiquitous social networks - opportunities and challenges for privacy-aware user modelling. Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Mining for User Modelling at UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, Jun 2007.
• Zinman, Aaron and Judith Donath. (2007). Is Britney Spears Spam? CEAS 2007 – Fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, August 2-3, 2007, Mountain View, California USA.

Masters Theses and School Papers

• Ginger, Jeff. (2007, Dec). The Facebook Project: Cyborging of the Mind in a Permanently Beta Digital Ecology. The Facebook Project.com. Masters paper with an expected release in 2008.
• Jones, Harvey and Jose Hiram Soltren. (2005). “Facebook: Threats to Privacy.” MIT 6.805/STS085.
  

http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/student-papers/fall05-papers/facebook.pdf

Websites, Blog Posts, and other Internet Resources

• Giannone, Joseph A., Yinka Adegoke, and Eric Auchard. “Facebook subpoenaed over user safety.” Yahoo News. Sep 24 2007.
  

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN2429817920070924

• Goodwin, Dan. “NY probes Facebook over pedophile controls.” The Register.co.uk. Sep 25 2007.
  

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/facebook_subpoena/

• John, Kevin. “Facebook vice president guarantees safety of site.” BYU NewsNet. Jul 26 2007.
  

http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/60483

• Kelly, Chris. “Safety on Facebook.” The Facebook Blog. Oct 19, 2007.
  

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=6598927130

Race and Ethnicity, Class and Gender

A growing area, obviously there should be many subsets in the future.

Publications

• Mayer, Adalbert and Steven L. Puller. (2007). The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses. Journal of Public Economics, doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.09.001.
• Hargittai, E. (2007). Whose space? Differences among users and non-users of social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 14.
• Byrne, Dara. (2007). Public discourse, community concerns, and civic engagement: Exploring black social networking traditions on BlackPlanet.com. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 16.
  

• Byrne, Dara. (2007). The Future of (the) 'Race': Identity, Discourse and the Rise of Computer-mediated Public Spheres. In MacArthur Foundation Book Series and Everett, A. (Eds.), Race and ethnicity volume.
• Hjorth, Larissa. (2008, forthcoming) Home and away: a case study of Cyworld mini-hompy by Korean students studying abroad in Australia. Asian Studies Review, The Internet in East Asia special issue (ed) Anne McLaren.
• Hjorth, Larissa and Mori Yuji (2008) ‘Logging on locality: a cross-cultural case study of virtual communities Mixi (Japan) and Mini-hompy (Korea)’, in Belinda Smaill (ed.) Youth and Media in the Asia Pacific, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Gajjala, Radhika. (in review) Production of Raced and Classed Selves as (Stereotypical) Interface: Social Networks at the Intersection of Online/Offline, Global/Local. Cultural Studies Reader - edited by Michael Ryan.
• Hjorth, Larissa and Heewon Kim (2005). Being There and Being Here: Gendered Customising of Mobile 3G Practices Through a Case Study in Seoul. Convergence 11 (2), 49-55.
• Thelwall, Michael. (2007). Social Networks, gender and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• Geidner, Nicholas W., Flook, Christopher A., & Bell, Mark W. (2007). Masculinity and Online Social Networks: Male Self-Identification on Facebook.com". Paper presented at Eastern Communication Association 98th Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.

Theses and School Papers

• Ginger, Jeff. (2007, Dec). “The Missing Box: The Racial Politics behind Interface and Identity.” TheFacebookProject.com.

Websites, Blog Posts, and other Internet Resources

• boyd, danah. (2007, Jun). "Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace ." Apophenia Blog Essay.
  

http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

• boyd, danah. (2007, Jul). "Response to Responses to: 'Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace'." Apophenia Blog Essay.
  

http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ResponseToClassDivisions.html

• Garennes, Christine Des. (2007, Jan). “UI examining racist posts on Facebook site.” The News-Gazette.com.
  

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/2007/01/10/ui_examining_racist_posts_on_facebook_site

Youth and Social Networking

Youth (teens, college students) and studies/papers related to their culture, interactions, and relationship with SNS.

Publications

• Lenhart, Amanda, Mary Madden, Alexandra Rankin Macgill and Aaron Smith. (2007). Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media. PEW Internet & American Life Project.
• boyd, danah. Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? Knowledge Tree. May 13 2007.
  

http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/?page_id=28

• boyd, danah. (Forthcoming) Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life. MacArthur Foundation on Digital Learning, Identity Volume (ed. David Buckingham).
• National School Boards Association. “Creating & Connecting // Resarch and Guidelines on Online Social—and Educational—Networking.” www.nsba.org. Aug 14 2007. http://www.nsba.org/site/view.asp?CID=63&DID=41340
• Lange, P. G. (2007). Publicly private and privately public: Social networking on YouTube. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 18.
• Barnes, Susan. (2006). A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States. First Monday 11 (9), July 2006.
• Dickman, K., Dutton, E., Gioia, C., Oberhausen, L., & Ravensberg, B. (2006). Facebook and college students' development of mature relationships. Journal of the Indiana University Student Personnel Association.
• Rochau, M., Wobido, N., Mastilo, T., Pent, K., & Chapman, M. (2006) Ourspace: an investigation into the mediated social networks of danish teenagers. Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark. Project Report.
• Rosen, L.D., Cheever, N.A., Carrier, L.M. (2007). The Impact of Parental Attachment Style, Limit Setting and Monitoring on Teen MySpace Behavior.
• Bumgarner, Brett A. (2007). You have been poked: Exploring the uses and gratifications of Facebook among emerging adults. First Monday 11 (12), November 2007.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• boyd, danah. (2006). Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. Talk as AAAS 2006 (part of panel: "It's 10PM: Do You Know Where Your Children Are ... Online!"). St. Louis, Missouri: February 19.
• Dwyer, Cathy. (2007). Digital Relationships in the 'MySpace' Generation: Results From a Qualitative Study. 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa, HI.
• Perkel, Dan. (2006). Copy and Paste Literacy: Literacy Practices in the Production of a MySpace Profile. Informal Learning and Digital Media. Odense Denmark: September 21-23.
• Snyder, Johnny, Don Carpenter, & Gayla Jo Slauson. (2006). Myspace.com: a social networking site and social contract theory. Dallas, TX: ISECON 23.

Theses and School Papers

• Vanden Boogart, M. R. (2006). Uncovering the social impacts of facebook on a college campus. Unpublished Master of Science Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

Websites, Blog Posts, and other Internet Resources

• Pascoe, C.J. (2007) “‘You have Another World to Create’: Teens and Online Hangouts” Digital Youth Research Blog. Jan 01 2007.
  

http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/node/65

• Vogelstein, Fred. (2007, Oct). "The Facebook Revolution." The Los Angeles Times. Oct 07 2007.
  

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-vogelstein7oct07,0,6385994.story?coll=la-opinion-center

• Mathis, Alice. (2007, Oct). "The Facebook Generation." The New York Times. Oct 06 2007.
  

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/opinion/06mathias.html...

Social Movements, Politics and Activism

Unfortunately these have been lumped together because too little research has been conducted on them...

• There are no formal publications on this subject. Hop to it guys!
• Alla Zolers did a presentation related to Facebook and Activism at ASIS&T 2007 but I don't have the information about it.

Websites, Blog Posts, and other Internet Resources

• Baldinger, Alexander. “Candidate Profiles Pop Up on Facebook.” WashingtonPost.com. Jun 19 2006.
  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800727.html

• Jordan, Laura. “The International Realm of Facebook.” The Illinois International Review. Feb 8 2007. http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/ilint/mt/iir/online/2007/02/the_international_realm_of_fac.html
• Cox, Vic. Virginia Tech Killings Stir UCSB Community. 93106: News For the Faculty and Staff of UCSB. Apr 30 2007.
  

http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/93106/2007/April30/tech.html Accessed May 2007.

• Facebook and Student Organizing. Daily Kos. Apr 26 2007.
  

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/27/0346/81929

Teaching and Education

Applications and impacts of SNS on teaching and educators.

Publications

• Charnigo, Laurie and Paula Barnett-Ellis. (2007, March). Checking Out Facebook.com: The Impact of a Digital Trend on Academic Libraries. Information Technology and Libraries. Chicago. Vol. 26, Iss. 1; p. 23.
• Mazer, Joseph P., Richard E. Murphy and Cheri J. Simonds. (2007, January). I'll See You On "Facebook": The Effects of Computer-Mediated Teacher Self-Disclosure on Student Motivation, Affective Learning, and Classroom Climate. Communication Education. Routledge. Vol. 56, Iss. 1, p. 17.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• National School Boards Association. “Creating & Connecting // Resarch and Guidelines on Online Social—and Educational—Networking.” www.nsba.org. Aug 14 2007.
• boyd, danah. "Information Access in a Networked World." Talk presented to Pearson Publishing, Palo Alto, California, November 2, 2007.
  

http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/Pearson2007.html

• Hewitt, Anne and Andrea Forte. (2006). Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook. Poster/Extended Abstract, CSCW 2006.
• Perkel, Dan. (2006). Copy and Paste Literacy: Literacy Practices in the Production of a MySpace Profile. Informal Learning and Digital Media. Odense Denmark: September 21-23.
  

Other Stuff

I wasn't always sure where to put some of these, thus this section. This includes Facebook Press releases.

Publications

• Bigge, Ryan. (2006). The cost of (anti-)social networks: Identity, agency and neo-luddites. First Monday 11 (12), December 2006.
• Liu, Hugo, Pattie Maes, Glorianna Davenport. (2006). Unraveling the taste fabric of social networks. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 2(1), 42-71, Hershey, PA: Idea Academic Publishers.
• Humphreys, L. (2007). Mobile social networks and social practice: A case study of Dodgeball. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 17.

Conference Papers

• Heer, Jeffrey and danah boyd. (2005). Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005). Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25.
• Marwick, Alice. 2005. 'I'm a Lot More Interesting than a Friendster Profile': Identity Presentation, Authenticity and Power in Social Networking Services. Association of Online Internet Researchers. Chicago.

Theses and School Papers

• Schelling, Jasper. (2007). Social Network Visualization. Hogeschool Rotterdam.
• Lehtinen, Vilma (2007). Maintaining and Extending Social Networks in IRC-galleria. Master's Thesis. University of Helsinki, Department of Social Psychology.
  

https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/7282/maintain.pdf?sequence=1

• Hidalgo, Diego. (2007). Online Social Networks: Social Relations and Mediated Communication. Master's Thesis. University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology.

News Articles on Deceased Students Related to Facebook

• Stelter, Brian. On Facebook, life after death. The Towerlight. Nov 16 2006.
  

http://media.www.thetowerlight.com/media/storage/paper957/news/2006/11/16/ Technology/On.Facebook.Life.After.Death-2463179.shtml

• Stackhouse, Layne A. Son, friend remembered as a free spirit. College Heights Herald. Nov 14 2006.
  

http://media.www.wkuherald.com/media/storage/paper603/news/2006/11/14/News/ Son-Friend.Remembered.As.free.Spirit-2457787.shtml?norewrite200612140743&sourcedomain=www.wkuherald.com

• Lorg, Emily. Student Colby McLain remembered. University News. Dec 5 2005.
  

http://media.www.unews.com/media/storage/paper274/news/2005/12/05/News/ Student.Colby.Mclain.Remembered-1122882.shtml

• Batista, Sarah. UVA Student Remembered. Charlottesville News Plex. Nov 21 2005.
  

http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/1999437.html

• Negrin, Matt. University responds to SMG junior's death. The Daily Free Press. Nov 21 2005.
  

http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2005/11/21/News/ University.Responds.To.Smg.Juniors.Death-1111578.shtml

• Bernhard, Stephanie. Community mourns death of Pagan '06. The Brown Daily Herald. Jan 25 2006.
  

http://www.browndailyherald.com/media/paper472/news/2006/01/25/CampusNews/ Community.Mourns.Death.Of.Pagan.06-1504200.shtml?norewrite200603280837&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com

Facebook Press Releases

• Zuckerberg, Mark. “Thoughts on Beacon.” The Facebook Blog. Dec 5 2007.
  

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130

• Zuckerberg, Mark. An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook Blog. Sep 8 2006.
  

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2356432130

Helpful Websites

• The MacArthur MIT Press Group is absolutely amazing. You can find articles related to just about every topic above there:
  

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/dmal

• If you haven't already looked into Fred Stutzman's website and blog I'd strongly recommend it.
  

http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/04/summarizing-facebook-research.html

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Readings related to SNS

A very limited collection of readings that relate to the study of social-networking services.

Identity

Identity theory and studies, with an emphasis (and yes there are so many missing) on digital identity.

• Kendall, Lori. “Meaning and Identity in “Cyberspace”: The Performance of Gender, Class, and Race Online.” Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1998. Pgs. 129-153.
• Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Science and Technology Studies

Related references from the STS realm of Sociology.

• Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar With Michel Foucault. Ed. Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
• Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
• Law, John. "Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion." The Social Construction of Technological Systems. Ed. By Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor F. Pinch. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1987, 111-134.
• Law, John. "Notes on the Theory of Actor-Network: Ordering, Strategy, and Heterogeneity." Systems Practice 5.4 (1992) : 379-393.
• Pinch, Trevor, and Ronald Kline. ."User Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States." Technology and Culture 37.4 (1996) : 763-795.
• Pinch, Trevor, and Wiebe Bijker. "The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts." Social Studies of Science 14 (1984) : 399-441.
• Pickering, Andrew. "Cyborg history and the World War II regime." Perspectives in Science 3.1 (1995) : 1-48.
• Garrety, Karin and Richard Badham. “User-Centered Design and the Normative Politics of Technology.” Science, Technology & Human Values 29.2 (2004) : 191-212.
• Madison, Michael J. (2006). Social Software, Groups, and Governance. Michigan State Law Review, pp. 153-191.

New Media Studies

A massive category that relates to just about everything SNS, I wanted to make a sort of MISC bin.

• Neff, Gina and David Stark. “Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era.” Society Online: Internet in Context. Ed. By Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2004, 173- 188.
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline and Anna L. Nielson. "Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication for Work, Community, and Learning." Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal and Transpersonal Implications Academic Press, 2007.
• Horrigan, John B. "A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users." Pew Internet & American Life Project. May 7, 2007.
• Lievrouw, Leah A. "What´s Changed about New Media? Introduction to the Fifth Anniversary Issue of New Media & Society." New Media and Society 6.1 (2004) : 9-15.
• Mcmillan, Sally J. and Margaret Morrison."Coming of age with the internet: A qualitative exploration of how the internet has become an integral part of young people's lives." New Media & Society 8.1 (2006) : 73-85.
• Rains, Stephen A. "The Impact of Anonymity on Perceptions o Source Credibility and Influence in Computer-Mediated Group Communication: A Test of Two Competing Hypothesis." Communication Research 34 (2007) : 100-125.
• Wellman, Barry, and Keith Hampton. "Living Networked On and Offline." Contemporary Sociology 28.6 (Nov 1999) : 648-654.
• Hogan, Bernie (2008 Forthcoming) Analyzing Social Networks via the Internet. In Fielding, N., Lee, R., and Blank, G. (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA.
• Paolillo, John C. and Elijah Wright. (2005). Social network analysis on the semantic web: Techniques and challenges for visualizing foaf. In V. Geroimenko and C. Chen, editors, Visualizing the Semantic Web, pages 229–242.
• Gadd, Elizabeth, Steve Loddington and Charles Oppenheim. (2007). A comparison of academics' attitudes towards the rights protection of their research and teaching materials. Journal of Information Science 33 (6) December 2007.

Social Capital

Social Capital and related studies.

• Haythornthwaite, Caroline and Barry Wellman. "Work, Friendship, and Media Use for Information Exchange in a Networked Organization." Journal of American Society for Information Science 49.12 (1998) : 1101-1114.
• Hurwitz, Roger. "Who Needs Politics? Who Needs People? The Ironies of Democracy in Cyberspace." Contemporary Sociology 28.6 (1999) : 655-661.
• Wellman, Barry, Anabel Quan Haase, James Witte, and Keither Hampton. ."Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital?: Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment." American Behavior Scientist 45.3 (2001) : 336-455.

Privacy and Related

Research related to privacy and technology, but not exactly about Facebook or SNS.

• Phillips, David J. “Privacy policy and PETs: The influence of policy regimes on the development and social implications of privacy enhancing technologies.” New Media & Society 6.6 (2004) : 691-706.

Digital Divide

Digital divide material with emphasis placed on race-related disparities.

• Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Appiah, Osei. "Americans Online: differences in surfing and evaluating race-targeted Web sites by Black and White users." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 47.4 (2003) : 537-556.
• Adams, Josh. "White supremacists, oppositional culture, and the World Wide Web." Social Forces 84.2 (2005) : 759-779.
• Horrigan, John B. "A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users." Pew Internet & American Life Project. May 7, 2007.
• Lovink, Geert. "Talking race and cyberspace: an interview with Lisa Nakamura." (Interview). Frontiers 26.1 (2005) : 60-66.
• Parker, David and Miri Song. "New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet." The Sociological Review 54.3 (2006) : 576-594.
• Porter, Constance Elise and Naveeen Donthu. ."Using the technology acceptance model to explain how attitudes determine Internet usage: The role of perceived access barriers and demographics." Journal of Business Research 59 (2006) : 999-1007.
• Roach, Ronald. Blogging With Blackprof.com. Tech Talk. Nov 17, 2005, 43.
• Spertus, Ellen. "Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists? MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 1315, 1991.
• Wright, Michelle M.. "Finding a Place in Cyberspace: Black Women, Technology, and Identity." Frontiers 26.1 (2005) : 48-59.
• O'Reilly, Tim. Women in Computer Science. O'Reilly radar. Apr 21 2007.
  

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/women_in_comput.html

Human-Computer Interactions and Interface

Resources related to HCI and interface that could inform studies on Facebook or SNS.

• Caplan, Scott E. “Preference for Online Social Interaction." Communication Research 30.6 (2003) : 625-648.
• Fuller, Matthew. “The Impossibility of Interface.” Behind the Blip. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2003 : 99-120.
• Nakamura, Lisa. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Lovink, Geert. "Talking race and cyberspace: an interview with Lisa Nakamura." (Interview). Frontiers 26.1 (2005) : 60-66.
• Rains, Stephen A. "The Impact of Anonymity on Perceptions o Source Credibility and Influence in Computer-Mediated Group Communication: A Test of Two Competing Hypothesis." Communication Research 34 (2007) : 100-125.

Education

Education and related works.

• Azzam, Amy M. “A Generation Immersed in Media.” Educational Leadership 63.7 (Apr 2006) : 92-93.

Cool

References that aren't exactly from the news publication or academic world but still very applicable to SNS research and fun to read!

• Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York: Little, Brown & Company, Inc., 2002.
• Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. New York: Little, Brown & Company, Inc., 2005.