How stable is the core discussion network?

Small, Mario Luis; Pamphile, Vontrese Deeds; McMahan, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2014.09.001

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“…This is particularly notable with students after graduation (Bidart & Lavenu, ; Roberts & Dunbar, ; Suitor & Keeton, ). These findings are consistent with more recent studies on student networks (Small, ; Small, Pamphile, & McMahan, ). The “persistent and pervasive” (Hampton, 2016) connectivity facilitated by mobile media may help to compensate for these network declines by helping teens engage their peer‐networks (Boyd, ).…”

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confidence: 92%

Teens' everyday information practices on mobile media: “catching up” and “reaching out”

kimm

Boase

2019

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Mobile media have become a central part of everyday life for many teens. We examine how teens use the media to access diverse information to maintain and reconnect with personal relationships in their personal networks. Based on semi‐structured interviews with 81 teens from ethnically and economically diverse backgrounds, we find that teens generally have broad networks of ties with whom they communicate through both face‐to‐face interactions and mobile media. To maintain these networks, the teens in our study use information that they either unexpectedly encounter or purposely seek out on various platforms available on their mobile devices to “reach out” to dormant ties and “catch up” with active ties.

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confidence: 92%

Teens' everyday information practices on mobile media: “catching up” and “reaching out”

kimm

Boase

2019

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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“…We used item-level imputation for all scale and index measures (Gottschall, West, & Enders, 2012; Shrive, Stuart, Quan, & Ghali, 2006). We restrict qualitative analyses to interviews occurring within 12 months of the PK2 survey ( N = 43), as networks evolve with members’ changing obligations and routine activities (Small, Deeds Pamphile, & McMahan, 2015). We used two-sample t -tests to determine whether the qualitative sample differed from the quantitative sample, finding comparability across all covariates except that the qualitative sample is slightly older.…”

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confidence: 99%

The emotional cost of distance: Geographic social network dispersion and post-traumatic stress among survivors of Hurricane Katrina

Morris

Deterding

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Rationale Social networks offer important emotional and instrumental support following natural disasters. However, displacement may geographically disperse network members, making it difficult to provide and receive support necessary for psychological recovery after trauma. Objectives We examine associations between distance to network members and post-traumatic stress using survey data, and identify potential mechanisms underlying this association using in-depth qualitative interviews. Methods We use longitudinal, mixed-methods data from the Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project to capture the long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on low-income mothers from New Orleans. Baseline surveys occurred approximately one year before the storm and follow-up surveys and in-depth interviews were conducted five years later. We use a sequential explanatory analytic design. With logistic regression, we estimate the association of geographic network dispersion with the likelihood of post-traumatic stress. With linear regressions, we estimate the association of network dispersion with the three post-traumatic stress sub-scales. Using maximal variation sampling, we use qualitative interview data to elaborate identified statistical associations. Results We find network dispersion is positively associated with the likelihood of post-traumatic stress, controlling for individual-level socio-demographic characteristics, exposure to hurricane-related trauma, perceived social support, and New Orleans residency. We identify two social-psychological mechanisms present in qualitative data: respondents with distant network members report a lack of deep belonging and a lack of mattering as they are unable to fulfill obligations to important distant ties. Conclusion Results indicate the importance of physical proximity to emotionally-intimate network ties for long-term psychological recovery.

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“…To measure individuals' social networks and social capital, sociologists have examined individuals' core discussion network (Burt, 1984;Marsden, 1987;McPherson, Smith-Lovin, & Brashears, 2009;Small, Deeds Pamphile, & McMahan, 2015), typically using the "name generator module," which asks survey respondents to list the set of individuals they regularly turn to when discussing important matters. Adapting from these past studies, we gave participants the following instructions: "From time to time, most people discuss important matters with other people.…”

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confidence: 99%

Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks

Lee

Parmar

et al. 2015

SSRN Journal

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People experience a threat to their moral self-concept in the face of discrepancies between their moral values and their unethical behavior. We theorize that people's need to restore their view of themselves as moral activates thoughts of a high-density personal social network. Such thoughts also lead people to be more likely to engage in further unethical behavior. In five experiments, participants reflected on their past unethical behavior, and then completed a task designed to measure network density. Those who cheated more frequently in the past, recalled their negative moral identity, or decided to lie were more likely to activate a high-density network (Experiment 1-3). Using a mediation-by-moderation approach (Experiment 4), we confirm that this link between dishonesty and network density is explained by a threat to positive self-concept.Importantly, activating a dense network after engaging in dishonest behavior allows further dishonest behavior in a subsequent task (Experiment 5).

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How stable is the core discussion network?

Cited by 142 publications

References 52 publications

Teens' everyday information practices on mobile media: “catching up” and “reaching out”

Teens' everyday information practices on mobile media: “catching up” and “reaching out”

The emotional cost of distance: Geographic social network dispersion and post-traumatic stress among survivors of Hurricane Katrina

Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks

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