BW
Barry Wellman
Wed, May 27, 2015 1:22 PM
CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste
Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that
we wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and
summary of really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me
below. And more nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
http://www.citasa.org/
The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven)
will be announced in due course.
I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the
number 7.
See you in Chicago
Barry Wellman
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
Stellar Seven 2015
Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not
only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And
they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official
winner and Honorable Mentions youll get that news elsewhere we wanted
to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of
scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each
an elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work
that were doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers own words)
to guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order
by first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization
of stellar nomineesbe they seven or some other numberbecomes an annual
tradition.
Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. The Spontaneous Emergence
of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). The Spontaneous Emergence of
Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. 112, 7
(February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have
been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new
collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors
present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgensteins
proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a
pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network
structure. Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for
coordinating locally, but they did not have either incentive or
information to achieve large scale agreement. The results show that
changes in network connectivity can cause global social conventions to
spontaneously emerge from local interactions, even though people have no
knowledge
that they are coordinating at a global scale.
Chen, Wenhong. 2013. The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital
Divides in America. The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social
capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave
over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital
facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data
identified the Rs higher & lower status network connections. Bonding
capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone
via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R
knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively
associated with Internet access, the average resources available via
bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet
access, general use, and online communication. Before the Internet can
revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place
to close the digital divides. [see also Laura Robinsons article]
Davis, Jenny. 2014. Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a
Connected Era. Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self
comprised of multiple social identities in a networked era, people
negotiate identities and strike a presentational balance between ideal
and authentic. Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text
exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the authors own
Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: fluidity
between digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping
social networks
.Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance
through self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas
and through multiple media. Self-triangulation has two aspects:
networked logicindividuals seamless incorporation of multiple media
into performative practices; preemptive actionthe proactive decision
to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support
performances in other arenas.
Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile
Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years. Urban
Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated
using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile
devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces
that William H Whytes team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from
NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593
observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase
in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase
in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The
rate of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile
phone use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might
otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is
associated with reduced public isolation and with an increased likelihood
of lingering in public. We note that The New York Times Magazine has
already run a feature story about this research: Mark Oppenheimer,
Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
Lewis, Kevin. 2013. The Limits of Racial Prejudice. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 1881419. Uses a
very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find
that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to
cross racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating
contact. Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message
are more likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the
effect trails off quickly and varies according to several factors,
including the racial background of the original sender. Findings
illuminate the ongoing production of racial segregation in romantic
networks through interactive choices as well as point toward mechanisms
whereby such underlying biases may be reduced.
Robinson, Laura. 2014. Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little. Information,
Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
in-person interviews with California high school students to show how
access to or deprivation from information resources influences how
students synthesize information for school. Endowed-Strivers with a
synergistic access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
Entrepreneurial-Strivers with few home resources rely on others.
Empowered-Strivers benefit from school-based interventions that provide
multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The
relationships between access conditions, information opportunity
structures, and types of information habitus
show how the synergistic use
of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital
inequalities. [see also Wenhong Chens article}.
Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
2014. Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do
similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized
experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia,
and epinions.org show that different kinds of success (money, quality
ratings, awards, and endorsements) all improved subsequent rates of
success. There were limits to this as greater amounts of initial success
failed to produce much greater subsequent success.
CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the
use of CITASAs work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital,
symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers
with social or sociological in their titles appear. Those laggards
will catch on some day.
CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste
Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that
we wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and
summary of really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me
below. And more nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
http://www.citasa.org/
The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven)
will be announced in due course.
I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the
number 7.
See you in Chicago
Barry Wellman
_______________________________________________________________________
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
_______________________________________________________________________
Stellar Seven 2015
Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not
only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And
they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official
winner and Honorable Mentions youll get that news elsewhere we wanted
to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of
scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each
an elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work
that were doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers own words)
to guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order
by first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization
of stellar nomineesbe they seven or some other numberbecomes an annual
tradition.
Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. The Spontaneous Emergence
of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). The Spontaneous Emergence of
Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. 112, 7
(February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have
been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new
collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors
present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgensteins
proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a
pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network
structure. Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for
coordinating locally, but they did not have either incentive or
information to achieve large scale agreement. The results show that
changes in network connectivity can cause global social conventions to
spontaneously emerge from local interactions, even though people have no
knowledge
that they are coordinating at a global scale.
Chen, Wenhong. 2013. The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital
Divides in America. The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social
capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave
over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital
facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data
identified the Rs higher & lower status network connections. Bonding
capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone
via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R
knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively
associated with Internet access, the average resources available via
bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet
access, general use, and online communication. Before the Internet can
revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place
to close the digital divides. [see also Laura Robinsons article]
Davis, Jenny. 2014. Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a
Connected Era. Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self
comprised of multiple social identities in a networked era, people
negotiate identities and strike a presentational balance between ideal
and authentic. Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text
exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the authors own
Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: fluidity
between digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping
social networks
.Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance
through self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas
and through multiple media. Self-triangulation has two aspects:
networked logicindividuals seamless incorporation of multiple media
into performative practices; preemptive actionthe proactive decision
to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support
performances in other arenas.
Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile
Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years. Urban
Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated
using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile
devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces
that William H Whytes team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from
NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593
observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase
in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase
in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The
rate of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile
phone use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might
otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is
associated with reduced public isolation and with an increased likelihood
of lingering in public. We note that The New York Times Magazine has
already run a feature story about this research: Mark Oppenheimer,
Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
Lewis, Kevin. 2013. The Limits of Racial Prejudice. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 1881419. Uses a
very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find
that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to
cross racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating
contact. Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message
are more likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the
effect trails off quickly and varies according to several factors,
including the racial background of the original sender. Findings
illuminate the ongoing production of racial segregation in romantic
networks through interactive choices as well as point toward mechanisms
whereby such underlying biases may be reduced.
Robinson, Laura. 2014. Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little. Information,
Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
in-person interviews with California high school students to show how
access to or deprivation from information resources influences how
students synthesize information for school. Endowed-Strivers with a
synergistic access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
Entrepreneurial-Strivers with few home resources rely on others.
Empowered-Strivers benefit from school-based interventions that provide
multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The
relationships between access conditions, information opportunity
structures, and types of information habitus
show how the synergistic use
of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital
inequalities. [see also Wenhong Chens article}.
Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
2014. Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do
similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized
experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia,
and epinions.org show that different kinds of success (money, quality
ratings, awards, and endorsements) all improved subsequent rates of
success. There were limits to this as greater amounts of initial success
failed to produce much greater subsequent success.
CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the
use of CITASAs work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital,
symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers
with social or sociological in their titles appear. Those laggards
will catch on some day.
GN
Gina Neff
Wed, May 27, 2015 9:35 PM
What an amazing list! Thanks for compiling it.
Dr. Gina Neff
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
University of Washington
Center for Media, Data & Society
School of Public Policy
Central European University
Twitter: @ginasue
http://ginaneff.com/
Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
-----Original Message-----
From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:22 PM
To: communication and information technology section asa
Cc: arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu; Laura Robinson; dcentola@asc.upenn.edu; Kevin Lewis; wenhong chen
Subject: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that we wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and summary of really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me below. And more nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
http://www.citasa.org/
The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven) will be announced in due course.
I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the number 7.
See you in Chicago
Barry Wellman
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
Stellar Seven 2015
Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official winner and Honorable Mentions - you'll get that news elsewhere - we wanted to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each an elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work that we're doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers' own words) to guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order by first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization of stellar nominees-be they seven or some other number-becomes an annual tradition.
Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. "The Spontaneous Emergence of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). "The Spontaneous Emergence of
Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution." 112, 7
(February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgenstein's proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network structure. Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for coordinating locally, but they did not have either incentive or information to achieve large scale agreement. The results show that "changes in network connectivity can cause global social conventions to spontaneously emerge from local interactions, even though people have no knowledge...that they are coordinating at a global scale."
Chen, Wenhong. 2013. "The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital Divides in America." The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data identified the Rs' higher & lower status network connections. Bonding capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively associated with Internet access, the average resources available via bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet access, general use, and online communication. "Before the Internet can revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place to close the digital divides." [see also Laura Robinson's article]
Davis, Jenny. 2014. "Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a Connected Era." Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self comprised of multiple social identities in a "networked era", people negotiate identities and strike "a presentational balance between ideal and authentic." Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the author's own Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: "fluidity between digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping social networks....Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance through self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas and through multiple media." Self-triangulation has two aspects:
"networked logic"-individuals' seamless incorporation of multiple media into "performative practices"; "preemptive action"-the proactive "decision to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support performances in other arenas."
Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
"Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years". Urban Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces that William H Whyte's team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593 observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The rate of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile phone use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is associated with reduced public isolation and with an increased likelihood of lingering in public. We note that The New York Times Magazine has already run a feature story about this research: Mark Oppenheimer, "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All":
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
Lewis, Kevin. 2013. "The Limits of Racial Prejudice." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 18814-19. Uses a very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to cross racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating contact. Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message are more likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the effect trails off quickly and varies according to several factors, including the racial background of the original sender. Findings illuminate the ongoing production of racial segregation in romantic networks through interactive choices as well as point toward mechanisms whereby such underlying biases may be reduced.
Robinson, Laura. 2014. "Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little." Information,
Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
in-person interviews with California high school students to show how access to or deprivation from information resources influences how students synthesize information for school. "Endowed-Strivers" with a synergistic access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
"Entrepreneurial-Strivers" with few home resources rely on others.
"Empowered-Strivers" benefit from school-based interventions that provide multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The "relationships between access conditions, information opportunity structures, and types of information habitus...show how the synergistic use of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital inequalities." [see also Wenhong Chen's article}.
Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
2014. "Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia, and epinions.org show that "different kinds of success (money, quality ratings, awards, and endorsements)" all improved subsequent rates of success. There were limits to this as "greater amounts of initial success failed to produce much greater subsequent success."
CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the use of CITASA's work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital, symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers with "social" or "sociological" in their titles appear. Those laggards will catch on some day.
What an amazing list! Thanks for compiling it.
Dr. Gina Neff
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
University of Washington
Center for Media, Data & Society
School of Public Policy
Central European University
Twitter: @ginasue
http://ginaneff.com/
Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
-----Original Message-----
From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:22 PM
To: communication and information technology section asa
Cc: arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu; Laura Robinson; dcentola@asc.upenn.edu; Kevin Lewis; wenhong chen
Subject: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that we wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and summary of really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me below. And more nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
http://www.citasa.org/
The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven) will be announced in due course.
I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the number 7.
See you in Chicago
Barry Wellman
_______________________________________________________________________
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
_______________________________________________________________________
Stellar Seven 2015
Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official winner and Honorable Mentions - you'll get that news elsewhere - we wanted to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each an elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work that we're doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers' own words) to guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order by first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization of stellar nominees-be they seven or some other number-becomes an annual tradition.
Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. "The Spontaneous Emergence of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). "The Spontaneous Emergence of
Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution." 112, 7
(February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgenstein's proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network structure. Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for coordinating locally, but they did not have either incentive or information to achieve large scale agreement. The results show that "changes in network connectivity can cause global social conventions to spontaneously emerge from local interactions, even though people have no knowledge...that they are coordinating at a global scale."
Chen, Wenhong. 2013. "The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital Divides in America." The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data identified the Rs' higher & lower status network connections. Bonding capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively associated with Internet access, the average resources available via bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet access, general use, and online communication. "Before the Internet can revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place to close the digital divides." [see also Laura Robinson's article]
Davis, Jenny. 2014. "Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a Connected Era." Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self comprised of multiple social identities in a "networked era", people negotiate identities and strike "a presentational balance between ideal and authentic." Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the author's own Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: "fluidity between digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping social networks....Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance through self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas and through multiple media." Self-triangulation has two aspects:
"networked logic"-individuals' seamless incorporation of multiple media into "performative practices"; "preemptive action"-the proactive "decision to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support performances in other arenas."
Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
"Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years". Urban Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces that William H Whyte's team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593 observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The rate of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile phone use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is associated with reduced public isolation and with an increased likelihood of lingering in public. We note that The New York Times Magazine has already run a feature story about this research: Mark Oppenheimer, "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All":
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
Lewis, Kevin. 2013. "The Limits of Racial Prejudice." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 18814-19. Uses a very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to cross racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating contact. Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message are more likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the effect trails off quickly and varies according to several factors, including the racial background of the original sender. Findings illuminate the ongoing production of racial segregation in romantic networks through interactive choices as well as point toward mechanisms whereby such underlying biases may be reduced.
Robinson, Laura. 2014. "Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little." Information,
Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
in-person interviews with California high school students to show how access to or deprivation from information resources influences how students synthesize information for school. "Endowed-Strivers" with a synergistic access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
"Entrepreneurial-Strivers" with few home resources rely on others.
"Empowered-Strivers" benefit from school-based interventions that provide multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The "relationships between access conditions, information opportunity structures, and types of information habitus...show how the synergistic use of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital inequalities." [see also Wenhong Chen's article}.
Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
2014. "Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia, and epinions.org show that "different kinds of success (money, quality ratings, awards, and endorsements)" all improved subsequent rates of success. There were limits to this as "greater amounts of initial success failed to produce much greater subsequent success."
CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the use of CITASA's work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital, symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers with "social" or "sociological" in their titles appear. Those laggards will catch on some day.
AQ
Anabel Quan-Haase
Wed, May 27, 2015 9:41 PM
Congratulations to all and what a fab idea!
And worth mentioning Merton's elegant piece on the Matthew effect and the
41st chair. Merton made a good point in his discussion.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in Chicago,
Anabel
Anabel Quan-Haase
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies/Department of Sociology
Western University
Digital Humanities Western
Twitter: @anabelquanhaase
Web site: SocioDigital.info
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Gina Neff gneff@uw.edu wrote:
What an amazing list! Thanks for compiling it.
Dr. Gina Neff
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
University of Washington
Center for Media, Data & Society
School of Public Policy
Central European University
Twitter: @ginasue
http://ginaneff.com/
Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
-----Original Message-----
From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Barry
Wellman
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:22 PM
To: communication and information technology section asa
Cc: arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu; Laura Robinson;
dcentola@asc.upenn.edu; Kevin Lewis; wenhong chen
Subject: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste
Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that we
wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and summary of
really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me below. And more
nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
http://www.citasa.org/
The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven)
will be announced in due course.
I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the
number 7.
See you in Chicago
Barry Wellman
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
_______________________________________________________________________
Stellar Seven 2015
Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not
only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And
they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official
winner and Honorable Mentions - you'll get that news elsewhere - we wanted
to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of
scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each an
elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work that
we're doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers' own words) to
guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order by
first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization of
stellar nominees-be they seven or some other number-becomes an annual
tradition.
Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. "The Spontaneous Emergence
of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Science (PNAS). "The Spontaneous Emergence of
Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution." 112, 7
(February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have
been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new
collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors
present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgenstein's
proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a
pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network structure.
Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for coordinating
locally, but they did not have either incentive or information to achieve
large scale agreement. The results show that "changes in network
connectivity can cause global social conventions to spontaneously emerge
from local interactions, even though people have no knowledge...that they
are coordinating at a global scale."
Chen, Wenhong. 2013. "The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital
Divides in America." The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social
capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave
over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital
facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data
identified the Rs' higher & lower status network connections. Bonding
capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone
via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R
knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively
associated with Internet access, the average resources available via
bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet
access, general use, and online communication. "Before the Internet can
revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place
to close the digital divides." [see also Laura Robinson's article]
Davis, Jenny. 2014. "Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a
Connected Era." Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self
comprised of multiple social identities in a "networked era", people
negotiate identities and strike "a presentational balance between ideal and
authentic." Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text
exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the author's own
Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: "fluidity between
digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping social
networks....Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance through
self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas and
through multiple media." Self-triangulation has two aspects:
"networked logic"-individuals' seamless incorporation of multiple media
into "performative practices"; "preemptive action"-the proactive "decision
to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support
performances in other arenas."
Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
"Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile
Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years". Urban
Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated
using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile
devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces
that William H Whyte's team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from
NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593
observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase
in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase
in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The rate
of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile phone
use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might
otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is
associated with reduced public isolation and with an !
increased likelihood of lingering in public. We note that The New York
Times Magazine has already run a feature story about this research: Mark
Oppenheimer, "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All":
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
Lewis, Kevin. 2013. "The Limits of Racial Prejudice." Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 18814-19. Uses a
very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find
that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to cross
racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating contact.
Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message are more
likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the effect
trails off quickly and varies according to several factors, including the
racial background of the original sender. Findings illuminate the ongoing
production of racial segregation in romantic networks through interactive
choices as well as point toward mechanisms whereby such underlying biases
may be reduced.
Robinson, Laura. 2014. "Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little." Information,
Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
in-person interviews with California high school students to show how
access to or deprivation from information resources influences how students
synthesize information for school. "Endowed-Strivers" with a synergistic
access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
"Entrepreneurial-Strivers" with few home resources rely on others.
"Empowered-Strivers" benefit from school-based interventions that provide
multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The
"relationships between access conditions, information opportunity
structures, and types of information habitus...show how the synergistic use
of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital
inequalities." [see also Wenhong Chen's article}.
Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
2014. "Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics." Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do
similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized
experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia,
and epinions.org show that "different kinds of success (money, quality
ratings, awards, and endorsements)" all improved subsequent rates of
success. There were limits to this as "greater amounts of initial success
failed to produce much greater subsequent success."
CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the
use of CITASA's work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital,
symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers
with "social" or "sociological" in their titles appear. Those laggards will
catch on some day.
CITASA mailing list
CITASA@list.citasa.org
http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org
Congratulations to all and what a fab idea!
And worth mentioning Merton's elegant piece on the Matthew effect and the
41st chair. Merton made a good point in his discussion.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in Chicago,
Anabel
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anabel Quan-Haase
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies/Department of Sociology
Western University
Digital Humanities Western
Twitter: @anabelquanhaase
Web site: SocioDigital.info
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Gina Neff <gneff@uw.edu> wrote:
> What an amazing list! Thanks for compiling it.
>
>
> Dr. Gina Neff
> Associate Professor, Department of Communication
> University of Washington
>
> Center for Media, Data & Society
> School of Public Policy
> Central European University
>
> Twitter: @ginasue
> http://ginaneff.com/
>
> Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Barry
> Wellman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:22 PM
> To: communication and information technology section asa
> Cc: arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu; Laura Robinson;
> dcentola@asc.upenn.edu; Kevin Lewis; wenhong chen
> Subject: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
>
> CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste
> Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that we
> wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and summary of
> really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me below. And more
> nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
>
> http://www.citasa.org/
>
> The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven)
> will be announced in due course.
>
> I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the
> number 7.
>
> See you in Chicago
> Barry Wellman
> _______________________________________________________________________
> FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
> NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
> MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Stellar Seven 2015
> Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
>
> The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not
> only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And
> they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official
> winner and Honorable Mentions - you'll get that news elsewhere - we wanted
> to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of
> scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each an
> elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work that
> we're doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers' own words) to
> guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order by
> first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization of
> stellar nominees-be they seven or some other number-becomes an annual
> tradition.
>
> Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. "The Spontaneous Emergence
> of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings of
> the National Academy of Science (PNAS). "The Spontaneous Emergence of
> Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution." 112, 7
> (February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have
> been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new
> collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors
> present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgenstein's
> proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a
> pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network structure.
> Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for coordinating
> locally, but they did not have either incentive or information to achieve
> large scale agreement. The results show that "changes in network
> connectivity can cause global social conventions to spontaneously emerge
> from local interactions, even though people have no knowledge...that they
> are coordinating at a global scale."
>
>
>
> Chen, Wenhong. 2013. "The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital
> Divides in America." The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social
> capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave
> over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital
> facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data
> identified the Rs' higher & lower status network connections. Bonding
> capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone
> via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R
> knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively
> associated with Internet access, the average resources available via
> bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet
> access, general use, and online communication. "Before the Internet can
> revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place
> to close the digital divides." [see also Laura Robinson's article]
>
>
>
> Davis, Jenny. 2014. "Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a
> Connected Era." Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self
> comprised of multiple social identities in a "networked era", people
> negotiate identities and strike "a presentational balance between ideal and
> authentic." Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text
> exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the author's own
> Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: "fluidity between
> digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping social
> networks....Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance through
> self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas and
> through multiple media." Self-triangulation has two aspects:
> "networked logic"-individuals' seamless incorporation of multiple media
> into "performative practices"; "preemptive action"-the proactive "decision
> to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support
> performances in other arenas."
>
>
>
> Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
> "Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile
> Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years". Urban
> Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated
> using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile
> devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces
> that William H Whyte's team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from
> NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593
> observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase
> in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase
> in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The rate
> of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile phone
> use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might
> otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is
> associated with reduced public isolation and with an !
> increased likelihood of lingering in public. We note that The New York
> Times Magazine has already run a feature story about this research: Mark
> Oppenheimer, "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All":
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
>
>
>
> Lewis, Kevin. 2013. "The Limits of Racial Prejudice." Proceedings of the
> National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 18814-19. Uses a
> very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find
> that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to cross
> racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating contact.
> Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message are more
> likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the effect
> trails off quickly and varies according to several factors, including the
> racial background of the original sender. Findings illuminate the ongoing
> production of racial segregation in romantic networks through interactive
> choices as well as point toward mechanisms whereby such underlying biases
> may be reduced.
>
>
>
> Robinson, Laura. 2014. "Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
> Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little." Information,
> Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
> in-person interviews with California high school students to show how
> access to or deprivation from information resources influences how students
> synthesize information for school. "Endowed-Strivers" with a synergistic
> access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
> "Entrepreneurial-Strivers" with few home resources rely on others.
> "Empowered-Strivers" benefit from school-based interventions that provide
> multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The
> "relationships between access conditions, information opportunity
> structures, and types of information habitus...show how the synergistic use
> of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital
> inequalities." [see also Wenhong Chen's article}.
>
>
>
> Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
> 2014. "Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics." Proceedings
> of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do
> similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized
> experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia,
> and epinions.org show that "different kinds of success (money, quality
> ratings, awards, and endorsements)" all improved subsequent rates of
> success. There were limits to this as "greater amounts of initial success
> failed to produce much greater subsequent success."
>
>
>
> CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
> Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the
> use of CITASA's work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital,
> symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
> The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers
> with "social" or "sociological" in their titles appear. Those laggards will
> catch on some day.
>
> _______________________________________________
> CITASA mailing list
> CITASA@list.citasa.org
> http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org
>
BW
Barry Wellman
Wed, May 27, 2015 9:42 PM
41st chair?
Anabel, you're ahead of me, as usual
Barry Wellman
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
On Wed, 27 May 2015, Anabel Quan-Haase wrote:
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 17:41:32 -0400
From: Anabel Quan-Haase aquan@uwo.ca
To: Gina Neff gneff@uw.edu
Cc: Barry Wellman wellman@chass.utoronto.ca,
communication and information technology section asa
citasa@list.citasa.org, Kevin Lewis lewis@ucsd.edu,
"dcentola@asc.upenn.edu" dcentola@asc.upenn.edu,
Laura Robinson laura@laurarobinson.org,
wenhong chen wenchen2006@gmail.com,
"arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu" arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu
Subject: Re: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
Congratulations to all and what a fab idea!
And worth mentioning Merton's elegant piece on the Matthew effect and the
41st chair. Merton made a good point in his discussion.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in Chicago,
Anabel
Anabel Quan-Haase
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies/Department of Sociology
Western University
Digital Humanities Western
Twitter: @anabelquanhaase
Web site: SocioDigital.info
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Gina Neff gneff@uw.edu wrote:
What an amazing list! Thanks for compiling it.
Dr. Gina Neff
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
University of Washington
Center for Media, Data & Society
School of Public Policy
Central European University
Twitter: @ginasue
http://ginaneff.com/
Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
-----Original Message-----
From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Barry
Wellman
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:22 PM
To: communication and information technology section asa
Cc: arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu; Laura Robinson;
dcentola@asc.upenn.edu; Kevin Lewis; wenhong chen
Subject: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste
Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that we
wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and summary of
really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me below. And more
nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
http://www.citasa.org/
The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven)
will be announced in due course.
I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the
number 7.
See you in Chicago
Barry Wellman
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
_______________________________________________________________________
Stellar Seven 2015
Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not
only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And
they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official
winner and Honorable Mentions - you'll get that news elsewhere - we wanted
to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of
scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each an
elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work that
we're doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers' own words) to
guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order by
first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization of
stellar nominees-be they seven or some other number-becomes an annual
tradition.
Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. "The Spontaneous Emergence
of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Science (PNAS). "The Spontaneous Emergence of
Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution." 112, 7
(February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have
been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new
collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors
present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgenstein's
proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a
pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network structure.
Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for coordinating
locally, but they did not have either incentive or information to achieve
large scale agreement. The results show that "changes in network
connectivity can cause global social conventions to spontaneously emerge
from local interactions, even though people have no knowledge...that they
are coordinating at a global scale."
Chen, Wenhong. 2013. "The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital
Divides in America." The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social
capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave
over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital
facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data
identified the Rs' higher & lower status network connections. Bonding
capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone
via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R
knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively
associated with Internet access, the average resources available via
bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet
access, general use, and online communication. "Before the Internet can
revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place
to close the digital divides." [see also Laura Robinson's article]
Davis, Jenny. 2014. "Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a
Connected Era." Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self
comprised of multiple social identities in a "networked era", people
negotiate identities and strike "a presentational balance between ideal and
authentic." Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text
exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the author's own
Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: "fluidity between
digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping social
networks....Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance through
self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas and
through multiple media." Self-triangulation has two aspects:
"networked logic"-individuals' seamless incorporation of multiple media
into "performative practices"; "preemptive action"-the proactive "decision
to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support
performances in other arenas."
Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
"Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile
Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years". Urban
Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated
using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile
devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces
that William H Whyte's team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from
NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593
observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase
in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase
in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The rate
of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile phone
use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might
otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is
associated with reduced public isolation and with an !
increased likelihood of lingering in public. We note that The New York
Times Magazine has already run a feature story about this research: Mark
Oppenheimer, "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All":
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
Lewis, Kevin. 2013. "The Limits of Racial Prejudice." Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 18814-19. Uses a
very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find
that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to cross
racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating contact.
Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message are more
likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the effect
trails off quickly and varies according to several factors, including the
racial background of the original sender. Findings illuminate the ongoing
production of racial segregation in romantic networks through interactive
choices as well as point toward mechanisms whereby such underlying biases
may be reduced.
Robinson, Laura. 2014. "Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little." Information,
Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
in-person interviews with California high school students to show how
access to or deprivation from information resources influences how students
synthesize information for school. "Endowed-Strivers" with a synergistic
access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
"Entrepreneurial-Strivers" with few home resources rely on others.
"Empowered-Strivers" benefit from school-based interventions that provide
multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The
"relationships between access conditions, information opportunity
structures, and types of information habitus...show how the synergistic use
of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital
inequalities." [see also Wenhong Chen's article}.
Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
2014. "Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics." Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do
similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized
experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia,
and epinions.org show that "different kinds of success (money, quality
ratings, awards, and endorsements)" all improved subsequent rates of
success. There were limits to this as "greater amounts of initial success
failed to produce much greater subsequent success."
CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the
use of CITASA's work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital,
symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers
with "social" or "sociological" in their titles appear. Those laggards will
catch on some day.
CITASA mailing list
CITASA@list.citasa.org
http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org
41st chair?
Anabel, you're ahead of me, as usual
Barry Wellman
_______________________________________________________________________
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
_______________________________________________________________________
On Wed, 27 May 2015, Anabel Quan-Haase wrote:
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 17:41:32 -0400
> From: Anabel Quan-Haase <aquan@uwo.ca>
> To: Gina Neff <gneff@uw.edu>
> Cc: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>,
> communication and information technology section asa
> <citasa@list.citasa.org>, Kevin Lewis <lewis@ucsd.edu>,
> "dcentola@asc.upenn.edu" <dcentola@asc.upenn.edu>,
> Laura Robinson <laura@laurarobinson.org>,
> wenhong chen <wenchen2006@gmail.com>,
> "arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu" <arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu>
> Subject: Re: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
>
> Congratulations to all and what a fab idea!
> And worth mentioning Merton's elegant piece on the Matthew effect and the
> 41st chair. Merton made a good point in his discussion.
>
> Looking forward to seeing many of you in Chicago,
> Anabel
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Anabel Quan-Haase
> Associate Professor
> Faculty of Information and Media Studies/Department of Sociology
> Western University
> Digital Humanities Western
> Twitter: @anabelquanhaase
> Web site: SocioDigital.info
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Gina Neff <gneff@uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> What an amazing list! Thanks for compiling it.
>>
>>
>> Dr. Gina Neff
>> Associate Professor, Department of Communication
>> University of Washington
>>
>> Center for Media, Data & Society
>> School of Public Policy
>> Central European University
>>
>> Twitter: @ginasue
>> http://ginaneff.com/
>>
>> Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Barry
>> Wellman
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:22 PM
>> To: communication and information technology section asa
>> Cc: arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu; Laura Robinson;
>> dcentola@asc.upenn.edu; Kevin Lewis; wenhong chen
>> Subject: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
>>
>> CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste
>> Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that we
>> wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and summary of
>> really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me below. And more
>> nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
>>
>> http://www.citasa.org/
>>
>> The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven)
>> will be announced in due course.
>>
>> I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the
>> number 7.
>>
>> See you in Chicago
>> Barry Wellman
>> _______________________________________________________________________
>> FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
>> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
>> NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
>> MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
>> _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>> Stellar Seven 2015
>> Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
>>
>> The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not
>> only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And
>> they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official
>> winner and Honorable Mentions - you'll get that news elsewhere - we wanted
>> to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of
>> scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each an
>> elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work that
>> we're doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers' own words) to
>> guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order by
>> first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization of
>> stellar nominees-be they seven or some other number-becomes an annual
>> tradition.
>>
>> Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. "The Spontaneous Emergence
>> of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings of
>> the National Academy of Science (PNAS). "The Spontaneous Emergence of
>> Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution." 112, 7
>> (February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have
>> been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new
>> collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors
>> present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgenstein's
>> proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a
>> pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network structure.
>> Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for coordinating
>> locally, but they did not have either incentive or information to achieve
>> large scale agreement. The results show that "changes in network
>> connectivity can cause global social conventions to spontaneously emerge
>> from local interactions, even though people have no knowledge...that they
>> are coordinating at a global scale."
>>
>>
>>
>> Chen, Wenhong. 2013. "The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital
>> Divides in America." The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social
>> capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave
>> over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital
>> facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data
>> identified the Rs' higher & lower status network connections. Bonding
>> capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone
>> via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R
>> knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively
>> associated with Internet access, the average resources available via
>> bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet
>> access, general use, and online communication. "Before the Internet can
>> revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place
>> to close the digital divides." [see also Laura Robinson's article]
>>
>>
>>
>> Davis, Jenny. 2014. "Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a
>> Connected Era." Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self
>> comprised of multiple social identities in a "networked era", people
>> negotiate identities and strike "a presentational balance between ideal and
>> authentic." Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text
>> exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the author's own
>> Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: "fluidity between
>> digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping social
>> networks....Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance through
>> self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas and
>> through multiple media." Self-triangulation has two aspects:
>> "networked logic"-individuals' seamless incorporation of multiple media
>> into "performative practices"; "preemptive action"-the proactive "decision
>> to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support
>> performances in other arenas."
>>
>>
>>
>> Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
>> "Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile
>> Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years". Urban
>> Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated
>> using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile
>> devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces
>> that William H Whyte's team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from
>> NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593
>> observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase
>> in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase
>> in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The rate
>> of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile phone
>> use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might
>> otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is
>> associated with reduced public isolation and with an !
>> increased likelihood of lingering in public. We note that The New York
>> Times Magazine has already run a feature story about this research: Mark
>> Oppenheimer, "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All":
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
>>
>>
>>
>> Lewis, Kevin. 2013. "The Limits of Racial Prejudice." Proceedings of the
>> National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 18814-19. Uses a
>> very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find
>> that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to cross
>> racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating contact.
>> Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message are more
>> likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the effect
>> trails off quickly and varies according to several factors, including the
>> racial background of the original sender. Findings illuminate the ongoing
>> production of racial segregation in romantic networks through interactive
>> choices as well as point toward mechanisms whereby such underlying biases
>> may be reduced.
>>
>>
>>
>> Robinson, Laura. 2014. "Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
>> Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little." Information,
>> Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
>> in-person interviews with California high school students to show how
>> access to or deprivation from information resources influences how students
>> synthesize information for school. "Endowed-Strivers" with a synergistic
>> access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
>> "Entrepreneurial-Strivers" with few home resources rely on others.
>> "Empowered-Strivers" benefit from school-based interventions that provide
>> multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The
>> "relationships between access conditions, information opportunity
>> structures, and types of information habitus...show how the synergistic use
>> of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital
>> inequalities." [see also Wenhong Chen's article}.
>>
>>
>>
>> Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
>> 2014. "Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics." Proceedings
>> of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do
>> similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized
>> experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia,
>> and epinions.org show that "different kinds of success (money, quality
>> ratings, awards, and endorsements)" all improved subsequent rates of
>> success. There were limits to this as "greater amounts of initial success
>> failed to produce much greater subsequent success."
>>
>>
>>
>> CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
>> Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the
>> use of CITASA's work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital,
>> symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
>> The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers
>> with "social" or "sociological" in their titles appear. Those laggards will
>> catch on some day.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CITASA mailing list
>> CITASA@list.citasa.org
>> http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org
>>
>
BW
Barry Wellman
Wed, May 27, 2015 9:43 PM
we've come a long way in the past decade thanks to a lot of people.
Barry Wellman
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
On Wed, 27 May 2015, Gina Neff wrote:
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 21:35:52 +0000
From: Gina Neff gneff@uw.edu
To: Barry Wellman wellman@chass.utoronto.ca,
communication and information technology section asa
citasa@list.citasa.org
Cc: "arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu" arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu,
Laura Robinson laura@laurarobinson.org,
"dcentola@asc.upenn.edu" dcentola@asc.upenn.edu,
Kevin Lewis lewis@ucsd.edu, wenhong chen wenchen2006@gmail.com
Subject: RE: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
What an amazing list! Thanks for compiling it.
Dr. Gina Neff
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
University of Washington
Center for Media, Data & Society
School of Public Policy
Central European University
Twitter: @ginasue
http://ginaneff.com/
Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
-----Original Message-----
From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:22 PM
To: communication and information technology section asa
Cc: arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu; Laura Robinson; dcentola@asc.upenn.edu; Kevin Lewis; wenhong chen
Subject: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that we wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and summary of really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me below. And more nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
http://www.citasa.org/
The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven) will be announced in due course.
I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the number 7.
See you in Chicago
Barry Wellman
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
Stellar Seven 2015
Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official winner and Honorable Mentions - you'll get that news elsewhere - we wanted to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each an elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work that we're doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers' own words) to guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order by first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization of stellar nominees-be they seven or some other number-becomes an annual tradition.
Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. "The Spontaneous Emergence of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). "The Spontaneous Emergence of
Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution." 112, 7
(February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgenstein's proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network structure. Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for coordinating locally, but they did not have either incentive or information to achieve large scale agreement. The results show that "changes in network connectivity can cause global social conventions to spontaneously emerge from local interactions, even though people have no knowledge...that they are coordinating at a global scale."
Chen, Wenhong. 2013. "The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital Divides in America." The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data identified the Rs' higher & lower status network connections. Bonding capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively associated with Internet access, the average resources available via bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet access, general use, and online communication. "Before the Internet can revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place to close the digital divides." [see also Laura Robinson's article]
Davis, Jenny. 2014. "Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a Connected Era." Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self comprised of multiple social identities in a "networked era", people negotiate identities and strike "a presentational balance between ideal and authentic." Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the author's own Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: "fluidity between digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping social networks....Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance through self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas and through multiple media." Self-triangulation has two aspects:
"networked logic"-individuals' seamless incorporation of multiple media into "performative practices"; "preemptive action"-the proactive "decision to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support performances in other arenas."
Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
"Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years". Urban Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces that William H Whyte's team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593 observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The rate of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile phone use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is associated with reduced public isolation and with an increased likelihood of lingering in public. We note that The New York Times Magazine has already run a feature story about this research: Mark Oppenheimer, "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All":
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?_r=0
Lewis, Kevin. 2013. "The Limits of Racial Prejudice." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 18814-19. Uses a very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to cross racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating contact. Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message are more likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the effect trails off quickly and varies according to several factors, including the racial background of the original sender. Findings illuminate the ongoing production of racial segregation in romantic networks through interactive choices as well as point toward mechanisms whereby such underlying biases may be reduced.
Robinson, Laura. 2014. "Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little." Information,
Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
in-person interviews with California high school students to show how access to or deprivation from information resources influences how students synthesize information for school. "Endowed-Strivers" with a synergistic access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
"Entrepreneurial-Strivers" with few home resources rely on others.
"Empowered-Strivers" benefit from school-based interventions that provide multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The "relationships between access conditions, information opportunity structures, and types of information habitus...show how the synergistic use of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital inequalities." [see also Wenhong Chen's article}.
Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
2014. "Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia, and epinions.org show that "different kinds of success (money, quality ratings, awards, and endorsements)" all improved subsequent rates of success. There were limits to this as "greater amounts of initial success failed to produce much greater subsequent success."
CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the use of CITASA's work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital, symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers with "social" or "sociological" in their titles appear. Those laggards will catch on some day.
we've come a long way in the past decade thanks to a lot of people.
Barry Wellman
_______________________________________________________________________
FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
_______________________________________________________________________
On Wed, 27 May 2015, Gina Neff wrote:
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 21:35:52 +0000
> From: Gina Neff <gneff@uw.edu>
> To: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>,
> communication and information technology section asa
> <citasa@list.citasa.org>
> Cc: "arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu" <arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu>,
> Laura Robinson <laura@laurarobinson.org>,
> "dcentola@asc.upenn.edu" <dcentola@asc.upenn.edu>,
> Kevin Lewis <lewis@ucsd.edu>, wenhong chen <wenchen2006@gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
>
> What an amazing list! Thanks for compiling it.
>
>
> Dr. Gina Neff
> Associate Professor, Department of Communication
> University of Washington
>
> Center for Media, Data & Society
> School of Public Policy
> Central European University
>
> Twitter: @ginasue
> http://ginaneff.com/
>
> Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:22 PM
> To: communication and information technology section asa
> Cc: arnout.vanderijt@stonybrook.edu; Laura Robinson; dcentola@asc.upenn.edu; Kevin Lewis; wenhong chen
> Subject: [CITASA] The Stellar Seven
>
> CITASA's best paper commitee -- Katrina Kimport (chair), Celeste Campos-Castelli and me -- found that there were so many good papers that we wanted to call to your attention. So, we came up with a list and summary of really nice ones for your reading pleasure. Summaries by me below. And more nicely formatted as a sub-page of CITASA's Awards page.
>
> http://www.citasa.org/
>
> The Best Paper and Honorable Mention prizes (from among this set of seven) will be announced in due course.
>
> I hope that this tradition continues, although we are not wedded to the number 7.
>
> See you in Chicago
> Barry Wellman
> _______________________________________________________________________
> FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto
> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman
> NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
> MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Stellar Seven 2015
> Barry Wellman, April 27, 2015
>
> The CITASA Best Paper Committee kvelled. We had so many good papers! Not only were they good, they were diverse in theory, method, and content. And they all have been published in fine journals. While we picked an official winner and Honorable Mentions - you'll get that news elsewhere - we wanted to share with you the Stellar Seven. As they are all winning pieces of scholarship, we wanted to bring them to your attention. Not only is each an elegant article, taken together they show the exciting panoply of work that we're doing. Here are summaries (often using the papers' own words) to guide your reading and research pleasure, listed in alphabetical order by first author. CITASA is doing great stuff. We hope this summarization of stellar nominees-be they seven or some other number-becomes an annual tradition.
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> Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. 2015. "The Spontaneous Emergence of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). "The Spontaneous Emergence of
> Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution." 112, 7
> (February): 1989-94. Theories of the evolution of social conventions have been hindered by the difficulty of evaluating the creation of new collective behaviors in large decentralized populations. The authors present results of controlled experiments. Their basis is Wittgenstein's proposal that repeated interactions produces collective agreement among a pair of actors. The experimental trials varied in social network structure. Participants (recruited from the Web) were rewarded for coordinating locally, but they did not have either incentive or information to achieve large scale agreement. The results show that "changes in network connectivity can cause global social conventions to spontaneously emerge from local interactions, even though people have no knowledge...that they are coordinating at a global scale."
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> Chen, Wenhong. 2013. "The Implications of Social Capital for the Digital Divides in America." The Information Society, 29: 13-25. Does social capital in Time 1 predict digital divides in Time 2? Uses a large 2-wave over-time panel study to show how social networks/social capital facilitates internet access and use. Position generator survey data identified the Rs' higher & lower status network connections. Bonding capital was indicated by the number of occupations in which R knew someone via a strong tie; bridging capital by the number of occupations in which R knew someone via a weak tie. Although bridging capital is positively associated with Internet access, the average resources available via bonding capital are the most versatile, positively related to internet access, general use, and online communication. "Before the Internet can revitalize social capital, there must be the right social capital in place to close the digital divides." [see also Laura Robinson's article]
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> Davis, Jenny. 2014. "Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a Connected Era." Symbolic Interaction 37, 4: 500-23. With the self comprised of multiple social identities in a "networked era", people negotiate identities and strike "a presentational balance between ideal and authentic." Uses 1:1 in-person interviews (N=17) and synchronous text exchanges (N=32) from a snowballing generated from the author's own Facebook network. Finds three key interaction conditions: "fluidity between digital and physical, expectations of accuracy, and overlapping social networks....Social actors accomplish the ideal-authentic balance through self-triangulation, presenting a coherent image in multiple arenas and through multiple media." Self-triangulation has two aspects:
> "networked logic"-individuals' seamless incorporation of multiple media into "performative practices"; "preemptive action"-the proactive "decision to engage in some act within one arena primarily as a means to support performances in other arenas."
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> Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius. 2015.
> "Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years". Urban Studies. 52(8): 1489-1504. Americans have become less socially isolated using public spaces than a generation ago, due in part to using mobile devices. The study is based on comparing videos of the same public spaces that William H Whyte's team filmed in 1969+. It uses detailed coding from NYC and Philadelphia of the behavior and characteristics of 143,593 observations, then and now. The most dramatic change has been an increase in the proportion of women in public spaces, and a corresponding increase in the tendency of men and women to spend time together in public. The rate of mobile phone use in public is small, especially in groups. Mobile phone use occurs somewhat more often in public spaces where people might otherwise be walking alone. This suggests that mobile phone use is associated with reduced public isolation and with an increased likelihood of lingering in public. We note that The New York Times Magazine has already run a feature story about this research: Mark Oppenheimer, "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All":
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> Lewis, Kevin. 2013. "The Limits of Racial Prejudice." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) 110, 47 (November), 18814-19. Uses a very large sample of interactions on online dating site OKCupid to find that daters from all racial backgrounds are equally or more likely to cross racial boundaries when reciprocating rather than initiating dating contact. Further, finds that daters who have received a cross-race message are more likely to initiate their own interracial exchange, although the effect trails off quickly and varies according to several factors, including the racial background of the original sender. Findings illuminate the ongoing production of racial segregation in romantic networks through interactive choices as well as point toward mechanisms whereby such underlying biases may be reduced.
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> Robinson, Laura. 2014. "Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers:
> Doing a Lot with a Lot, Doing a Lot with a Little." Information,
> Communication & Society 17, 5: 521-36. Uses 1:1 and focus group
> in-person interviews with California high school students to show how access to or deprivation from information resources influences how students synthesize information for school. "Endowed-Strivers" with a synergistic access to information resources have a self-reliant habitus.
> "Entrepreneurial-Strivers" with few home resources rely on others.
> "Empowered-Strivers" benefit from school-based interventions that provide multiple information channels: they develop more self-reliance. The "relationships between access conditions, information opportunity structures, and types of information habitus...show how the synergistic use of informational resources plays a critical role in larger digital inequalities." [see also Wenhong Chen's article}.
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> Van de Rijt, Arnout, Soong Moon Kang, Michael Restivo, and Akshay Patil.
> 2014. "Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS 111, 19 May): 6934-6939. Why do similar individuals have different degrees of success? Randomized experiments through interventions in Kickstarter, change.org, Wikipedia, and epinions.org show that "different kinds of success (money, quality ratings, awards, and endorsements)" all improved subsequent rates of success. There were limits to this as "greater amounts of initial success failed to produce much greater subsequent success."
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> CITASA has a bright future: all of the authors are mid-career or younger.
> Taken together, these articles make a great reading list. They show the use of CITASA's work on a variety of fields: norms, social capital, symbolic interaction, urban, gender, race, teens, and social psychology.
> The papers all come from solid journals. Yet, none of the mainstreamers with "social" or "sociological" in their titles appear. Those laggards will catch on some day.
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