by: danah boyd
I want to track down everyone who is actively doing research on social network sites. (Clarification: i'm looking for folks that are publishing in peer-reviewed spaces, not just researching for their company or blog.)
Researchers
- Alessandro Acquisti (privacy, Facebook)
- danah boyd (youth culture, identity performance, MySpace, Friendster)
- Judith Donath (signal theory)
- Nicole Ellison (Facebook)
- Ralph Gross (privacy, Facebook)
- Hugo Liu (music tastes, Friendster)
- Derek Lomas (reciprocity, MySpace)
- Alice Marwick (identity, Friendster)
- Jenn Mankoff (environmentalism, MySpace)
- Dan Perkel (literacy, codes, MySpace)
- Raquel Recuero (social capital, Orkut)
- Larry Rosen (predators, MySpace)
- Fred Stutzman (Facebook)
Publications and Presentations
- Acquisti, Alessandro and Ralph Gross. 2006. "Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook." Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Cambridge: June 28-30.
- Adamic, Lada, Orkut Buyukkokten, and Eytan Adar. 2003. "A social network caught in the Web." First Monday.
- boyd, danah. 2007 (in review) "None of this is Real."
- 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.
- 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.
- Donath, Judith and danah boyd. 2004. "Public displays of connection." BT Technology Journal Vol 22, No 4. October, pp 71-82.
- Ellison, Nicole, Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe. 2006. "Spatially Bounded Online Social Networks and Social Capital: The Role of Facebook." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden, June 19-23.
- Gross, Ralph and Alessandro Acquisti. 2005. "Information Reveleation and Privacy in Online Social Networks." ACM WPES Workshop.
- Heer, Jeffrey and danah boyd. 2005. "Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks." IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005). Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- Stutzman, Frederic. 2006. "An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities." iDMa Journal.
Original Post: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/08/19/research_on_soc.html

Please note that this page is now out-of-date. If you are interested in the current state of research on social network sites, please see:
http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html
hi there
I have found really interesting stuff in you blog. I am doing the research to understand how to use SNSes for the online promotion of products and services, therefore if you have something like that, please let me know, cause that will help me a lot.
Cause I am interested to understand more about brands that failed using SNSes to promote their business and success stories, and the right way to do it.
Thanks
hajra
May be this post and all the links in the following post helps you ....
http://mitanshu.blogspot.com/2006/11/advertise-on-orkut.html