(last updated: April 15, 2008)
(updates w/ complete citation and links should be sent to zephoria [@] zephoria.org)
For an overview of this space, including a definition of "social network sites," a history of SNSs, and a literature review, see boyd & Ellison's 2007 introduction to the JCMC Special Issue on Social Network Sites entitled Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. This frames what pieces are included in this list and why. Example social network sites researched include: Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Cyworld, Mixi, Black Planet, Dodgeball, Twitter, and LiveJournal.
The research contained below is focused specifically on social network sites (or "social networking" sites). Some of this is connected to social media, social software, Web2.0, social bookmarking, educational technologies, communities research, etc. but this is not the organizing focus and not everything related to these topics is included here. This list is not methodologically or disciplinarily organized. There is work here from communications, information science, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies, computer science, etc.
I try to keep this up to date so please send me additional publications as you learn of them. I do not host articles so only those hosted elsewhere are linked. Please contact the author if you want an article that is not linked.
Acquisti, Alessandro and Ralph Gross. (2006). Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook. In P. Golle & G. Danezis (Eds.), Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (pp. 36-58). Cambridge, U.K: Robinson College, June 28-30.
Adamic, Lada, Orkut Buyukkokten, and Eytan Adar. (2003). A social network caught in the Web. First Monday, 8 (6).
Albrechtslund, Anders. (2008). Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance. First Monday, 13 (3).
Andrejevic, Mark. (2005) The work of watching one another: Lateral surveillance, risk and governance. Surveillance & Society 2 (4): 479-497
Backstrom, Lars, Dan Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, & Xiangyang Lan. (2006). Group Formation in Large Social Networks: Membership, Growth, and Evolution. Proceedings of 12 th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining (KDD-2006) (pp. 44-54). New York: ACM Press.
Barnes, Susan. (2006). A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States. First Monday 11 (9), July 2006.
Baym, Nancy. (2007). The new shape of online community: The example of Swedish independent music fandom. First Monday, 12 (8).
Bigge, Ryan. (2006). The cost of (anti-)social networks: Identity, agency and neo-luddites. First Monday 11 (12), December 2006.
boyd, danah. (2008, Forthcoming). Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence. Convergence 14 (1), February 2008. (request paper via email)
boyd, danah. (2008) Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life. In David Buckingham (Ed.), Youth, Identity, and Digital Media (pp. 119-142). Cambridge: MIT Press.
boyd, danah. (2008) None of this is Real. In Joe Karaganis (Ed.), Structures of Participation. New York: Social Science Research Council.
boyd, danah and Nicole Ellison. (2007). Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]
boyd, danah. (2007). Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? Knowledge Tree 13, May 2007.
boyd, danah. (2006). Friends, Friendsters, and MySpace Top 8: Writing Community Into Being on Social Network Sites. First Monday. 11 (12), December.
boyd, danah and Jeffrey Heer. (2006). Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster. Proceedings of Thirty-Ninth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), Persistent Conversation Track. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. Kauai, HI, January 4 - 7.
boyd, danah. (2004). Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networks. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004) (pp. 1279-1282). New York: ACM Press. Vienna, April 24-29.
Brake, David. (in press) "Shaping the ‘Me’ in MySpace: The Framing of Profiles on a Social Network Site" in Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-Representations in New Media, (Lundby, K. ed.) Peter Lang, New York. (email author)
Byrne, Dara. (2007). Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Their Relationship to Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]
Byrne, Dara. (2008). The Future of (the) 'Race': Identity, Discourse and the Rise of Computer-mediated Public Spheres. In A. Everett (Ed.), MacArthur Foundation Book Series on Digital Learning: Race and Ethnicity Volume (pp. 15-38). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Charnigo, Laurie and Paula Barnett-Ellis. (2007, March). Checking Out Facebook.com: The Impact of a Digital Trend on Academic Libraries. Information Technology and Libraries, 26 (1), p. 23.
Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong. (2006). Living in Cyworld : Contextualising Cy-Ties in South Korea. In A. Bruns & J. Jacobs (Eds.), Use of Blogs (Digital Formations) (pp. 173-186). New York: Peter Lang.
Dickman, K., Dutton, E., Gioia, C., Oberhausen, L., & Ravensberg, B. (2006). Facebook and college students' development of mature relationships. Journal of the Indiana University Student Personnel Association.
Donath, Judith. (2007). Signals in Social Supernets. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]
Donath, Judith and danah boyd. (2004). Public displays of connection. BT Technology Journal, 22 (4), 71-82.
Dwyer, Cathy. (2007). Digital Relationships in the 'MySpace' Generation: Results From a Qualitative Study. 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa, HI.
Dwyer, Catherine, Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Katia Passerini (2007). Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison ofFacebook and MySpace. Proceedings of AMCIS 2007, Keystone, CO.
Ellison, Nicole, Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe. (2006). The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12 (3), article 1.
Enochsson, Ann Britt (2007). Tweens on the Internet: Communication in virtual guest books. Seminar.net, 3 (2).
Fono, David & Raynes-Goldie, Kate. (2006) Hyperfriends and Beyond: Friendship and Social Norms on LiveJournal. In M. Consalvo & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), Internet Research Annual Volume 4: Selected Papers from the AOIR Conference (pp. 91-103). New York: Peter Lang.
Fragoso, Suely. (2006). WTF a Crazy Brazilian Invasion. In F. Sudweeks & H. Hrachovec (Eds.), Proceedings of CATaC 2006 (pp. 255-274) . Murdoch, Australia: Murdoch University. Tartu. Murdoch - Australia: School of Information Technology - Murdoch University. v. 1. p. 255-274.
Gajjala, R (2007) Shifting Frames: Race, Ethnicity and Intercultural Communication in Online Social Networking and Virtual Work. In Hinner, Michael B. (ed.) The Role of Communication in Business Transactions and Relationships. New York: Peter Lang, 257-276.
Gilbert, Eric, Karrie Karahalios, and Christian Sandvig. (2008). The Network in the Garden: An Empirical Analysis of Social Media in Rural Life. ACM CHI 2008, April 5-10, Florence Italy.
Golder, Scott, Dennis Wilkinson, and Bernardo Huberman. (2007). Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging within a Massive Online Network. In C. Steinfield, B. Pentland, M. Ackerman, & N. Contractor (Eds.), Proceedings of Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies (pp. 41-66). London: Springer. East Lansing, MI.
Gross, Ralph and Alessandro Acquisti. (2005). Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks. Proceedings of WPES'05 (pp. 71-80). Alexandria, VA: Association of Computing Machinery.
Hargittai, Eszter. (2007). Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]
Heer, Jeffrey and danah boyd. (2005). Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks. IEEE Proceedings of Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005) (pp. 33-40) . Minneapolis, MN: IEEE Press. Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25.
Herring, Susan C., John C. Paolillo, Irine Ramos-Vielba, Inna Kouper, Elijah Wright, Sharon Stoerger, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Benjamin Clark. (2007). Language networks on LiveJournal. Proceedings of the Fortieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-2007). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press.
Hewitt, Anne and Andrea Forte. (2006). Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook. Poster presented at CSCW, Banff, Alberta.
Hjorth, Larissa. (2008, forthcoming). Home and away: a case study of Cyworld mini-hompy by Korean students studying abroad in Australia. Asian Studies Review, The Internet in East Asia special issue (ed) Anne McLaren.
Hjorth, Larissa and Mori Yuji. (2008). Logging on locality: A cross-cultural case study of virtual communities Mixi (Japan) and Mini-hompy (Korea). In B. Smaill (Ed.), Youth and Media in the Asia Pacific . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hjorth, Larissa and Heewon Kim (2005). Being There and Being Here: Gendered Customising of Mobile 3G Practices Through a Case Study in Seoul. Convergence 11 (2), 49-55.
Hodge, Matthew J. (2006). The Fourth Amendment and privacy issues on the "new" internet: Facebook.com and MySpace.com. Southern Illinois University Law Journal, 31.
Hogan, Bernie (2008 Forthcoming) Analyzing Social Networks via the Internet. In N. Fielding, R. Lee, & G. Blank (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Hsu, William H., Joseph Lancaster, Martin S.R. Paradesi, & Tim Weninger. (2007). Structural link analysis from user profiles and friends networks: a feature construction approach. Proceedings of ICWSM-2007 . Boulder, CO, 75-80.
Humphreys, Lee. (2007). Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]
Jagatic, T., Johnson, N., Jakobsson, M., & Menczer, F. (in press). Social phishing. Communications of the ACM.
Java, Akshay, Xiaodan Song, Tim Finin and Belle Tseng (2007). Why We Twitter: Understanding the Microblogging Effect in User Intentions and Communities. WebKDD, August 12-15, 2007, San Jose, California.
Kapoor, Nishikant, Joseph Konstan, & Loren Terveen. (2005). How Peer Photos Influence Member Participation in Online Communities. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005, April 2–7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Kim, Kyung-Hee and Haejin Yun. (2007). Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]
Kumar, Ravi, Jasmine Novak, & Andrew Tomkins. (2006) Structure and evolution of online social networks. Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining (KDD-2006) (pp. 611-617). New York: ACM Press. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 20–23, 2006.
Larsen, Malene. (in press). Networked Identities - Understanding Relationships between Strong and Weak Ties in Networked Environments. JCAL.
Lampe, Cliff, Ellison, Nicole, and Steinfeld, Charles. (2007). A Familiar Face(book): Profile Elements as Signals in an Online Social Network. Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007) (pp. 435-444). New York: ACM Press. San Jose, CA.
Lampe, Cliff, Ellison, Nicole, and Steinfeld, Charles. (2006). A face(book) in the crowd: social searching vs. social browsing. Proceedings of CSCW-2006 (pp. 167-170). New York: ACM Press. Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Lange, Patricia. (2007). Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]
Liben-Nowell, David, Jasmine Novak, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Andrew Tomkins. (2005) Geographic routing in social networks. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences , 102 (33) 11,623-11,628.
Liu, Hugo. (2007). Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances. JCMC, 13 (1). [Special Issue of JCMC on Social Network Sites, Eds.: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.]
Liu, Hugo, Pattie Maes, Glorianna Davenport. (2006). Unraveling the taste fabric of social networks. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 2(1), 42-71, Hershey, PA: Idea Academic Publishers.
Livingstone, Sonia. (2008) "Taking Risky Opportunities in Youthful Content Creation: Teenagers' Use of Social Networking Sites for Intimacy, Privacy and Self-Expression", New Media & Society, 10 (3), pp. xx-yy. (email author)
Madison, Michael J. (2006). Social Software, Groups, and Governance. Michigan State Law Review, pp. 153-191.
Masso, Paolo. (2006). A Survey of Trust Use and Modeling in Current Real Systems. Trust in E-services: Technologies, Practices and Challenges. Idea Group.
Mazer, J. P., Murphy, R. E., and Simonds, C. J. (2007). I'll See You On "Facebook": The Effects of Computer-Mediated Teacher Self-Disclosure on Student Motivation, Affective Learning, and Classroom Climate. Communication Education 56 (1), 1-17.
Paolillo, John C. and Elijah Wright. (2005). Social network analysis on the semantic web: Techniques and challenges for visualizing foaf. In V. Geroimenko & C. Chen (Eds.), Visualizing the Semantic Web (pp. 229-242). Berlin: Springer.
Pearson, Erika. (2007) Digital gifts: Participation and gift exchange in LiveJournal communities. First Monday 12 (5).
Perkel, Dan. (forthcoming). Copy and Paste Literacy? Literacy Practices in the Production of a MySpace Profile. In Drotner, Kirsten, Hans Siggard Jensen, and Kim Schroeder (eds). Informal Learning and Digital Media: Constructions, Contexts, Consequences. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Preibusch, Soren, Bettina Hoser, Seda Gürses, & Bettina Berendt. (2007). Ubiquitous social networks ? opportunities and challenges for privacy-aware user modelling. Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Mining for User Modelling at UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, June 2007.
Recuero, Raquel. (2005). O Capital Social em Redes Sociais na Internet. Revista FAMECOS , 28 , 88-106. (Social Capital in Internet Social Networks) (in Portuguese) This paper compares social capital found in five Orkut Brazilian communities and social capital found in five weblog communities. It is based on a 2 year qualitative research about weblog communities and orkut communities.
Recuero, Raquel. (2005). Um estudo do capital social gerado a partir das Redes Sociais no Orkut e nos Weblogs. Trabalho apresentado no GT de Tecnologias da Comunicacao e da Informacao da COMPOS 2005, em Niteroi/RJ. (in Portuguese)
Recuero, Raquel. (2004). Teoria das Redes e Redes Sociais na Internet: Considerações sobre o Orkut, os Weblogs e os Fotologs. In: XXVII Intercom, 2004, Porto Alegre. Anais do XXVII Intercom, 2004. (Network Theory and Social Networks in the Internet: Considerations about Orkut, Fotologs and Weblogs) (in Portuguese) This paper is about orkut's social appropriation by Brazilians. It is my first paper dealing with social neworks and network theory. It is more of an essay about how much of "new network's theory" (Barabási, Watts, Newman, Adamic and so on) could be qualitative observed within orkut, weblogs and fotologs.
Rosen, Christine. (2007). Virtual Friendship and the New Narcisissm. The New Atlantis, 17 (Summer), 15-31.
Skog, D. (2005). Social interaction in virtual communities: The significance of technology. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 1 (4), 464-474.
Snyder, Johnny, Don Carpenter, & Gayla Jo Slauson. (2006). Myspace.com: a social networking site and social contract theory. Dallas, TX: ISECON 23.
Spertus, Ellen, Mehran Sahami and Orkut Buyukkokten. (2005). Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network. Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining (KDD-2005) (pp. 678-684).
Stutzman, Frederic. (2006). An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities. Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association, 3 (1), 10-18.
Thellwall, Michael (2008, to appear). Fk yea I swear: Cursing and gender in MySpace. Corpora, 3(1). Preprint (with extended literature review and background information compared to the published version) available here.
Tufekci, Zeynep. (in press). Can You See Me Now? Audience and Disclosure Management in Online Social Network Sites. Bulletin of Science and Technology Studies.
Walther, Joseph B., Brandon Van Der Heide, Sang-Yeon Kim, David Westerman, Stephanie TomTong, and Lindsey Langwell. (in press). The Role of Friends' Appearance and Behavior on Evaluations of Individuals on Facebook: Are We Known by the Company We Keep? Human Communication Research.
Yang, K. Wayne (in press). Organizing MySpace: Youth walkouts, pleasure, politics and new media. Educational Foundations.
boyd, danah. (2006). G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide. O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego, CA. March 6.
boyd, danah. (2006). Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. Talk as AAAS 2006 (part of panel: "It's 10PM: Do You Know Where Your Children Are ... Online!"). St. Louis, Missouri: February 19.
Geidner, Nicholas W., Flook, Christopher A., & Bell, Mark W. (2007, April). Masculinity and online social networks: Male self-identification on Facebook.com. Paper presented at Eastern Communication Association 98th Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Larsen, Malene Charlotte (2007): Understanding Social Networking: On Young People’s Construction and Co-construction of Identity Online. Paper for the conference Internet Research 8.0: Let’s Play, Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver.
Marwick, Alice. 2005. 'I'm a Lot More Interesting than a Friendster Profile': Identity Presentation, Authenticity and Power in Social Networking Services. Paper presented at AOIR 6.0, Chicago, IL.
Meneses, J. (2004). The orkut.com case: A reflection on the exploration of new ways to online sociability in the tradition of the study of virtual communities. In M. Petrizzo, I. Maya & J. L. Molina (chair), el análisis de redes sociales (ars) y comunidades en línea: listas de distribución, plataformas de networking y peer-to-peer networks. Paper presented at the ii International Congress for the Observatory of the Cibersociety, November 2nd - 4th. (In Spanish)
Nurullah, Abu Sadat. (2007). The Sociology of Cyberspace: Youth Online Networking and Cyberfriendship Formation. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association, Penang, Malaysia, 19th–21st November 2007. (request paper via email)
Nyland, Rob and Chris Near (2007). Jesus is My Friend: Religiosity as a Mediating Factor in Internet Social Networking Use. Paper presented at AEJMC Midwinter Conference, Reno, NV, February 23-24.
Perkel, Dan. (2006). Copy and Paste Literacy: Literacy Practices in the Production of a MySpace Profile. Informal Learning and Digital Media. Odense Denmark: September 21-23.
Spence, Jeremiah. (2007). Orkut: a catalysis for the Brazilian internaut. Paper presented at Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October. (abstract)
Stecher, Kristin and Scott Counts. (2008). Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles. ICWSM-2008. Seattle: March 30.
Stecher, Kristin and Scott Counts. (2008). Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes. ICWSM-2008. Seattle: March 30.
Thelwall, Michael. (2008/9, to appear). Social networks, gender and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles. Social networks, gender and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. (Preprint)
Timusk, Peter. (2007). Exposed edges and tighter nodes: a suggested social networking hypothesis for web 2.0 as seen through a user of facebook a web 2.0 social networking site. Paper presented at the Communications, Information and Technology section of the American Sociology Asssociation Mini Conference 3.0, Second Life, August 12, 2007.
Tufekci, Zeynep. (2007). On the Internet, Everybody Knows You're a Dog: Presentation of Self for Everyday Surveillance. Presented at American Sociological Association. (Please email zeynep dot edu for draft copies).
Valenzuela, Sebastian, Namsu Park, & Kerk F. Kee. (2008). Lessons from Facebook: The Effect of Social Network Sites on College Students' Social Capital. Paper presented at the 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism, Austin, Texas, April 4-5, 2008.
Zinman, Aaron and Judith Donath. (2007). Is Britney Spears Spam? Paper presented at the Fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2007), Mountain View, CA, August 2-3, 2007.
Ofcom. (2008). Social Networking: A quantitative and qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use.
Pew Internet and American Life Project. (2007, January 7). Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview.
Rosen, Larry. (2007). Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting the Net Generation. Palgrave Macmillan.
Sharp, Darren (2005). Social Networks. In Barr, Burns and Sharp (2005). Smart Internet 2010. Smart Internet Cooperative Research Centre: Eveleigh, NSW.
Gajjala, Radhika. (in review) Production of Raced and Classed Selves as (Stereotypical) Interface: Social Networks at the Intersection of Online/Offline, Global/Local. Cultural Studies Reader - edited by Michael Ryan.
Prieur, Christophe, Dominique Cardon, Jean-Samuel Beuscart, Nicolas Pissard, and Pascal Pons. (2008). The Stength of Weak cooperation: A Case Study on Flickr.
Rochau, M., Wobido, N., Mastilo, T., Pent, K., & Chapman, M. (2006) Ourspace: an investigation into the mediated social networks of danish teenagers. Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark. Project Report.
Rosen, L.D., Cheever, N.A., Carrier, L.M. (2007). The Impact of Parental Attachment Style, Limit Setting and Monitoring on Teen MySpace Behavior.
Scholz, Trebor. (2007). A History of the Social Web.Collectivate.net.
Tufekci, Zeynep. Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and Myspace: What Can We Learn About Social Networking Sites from Non-Users. (request paper here)
boyd, danah and Henry Jenkins. (2006, May 26). Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). MIT Tech Talk.
boyd, danah. (2006, March 21). Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? Apophenia Blog.
Scholz, Trebor. (2007, October 22). What the MySpace generation should know about working for free. re-public: re.imagining democracy Re-public : re-imagining democracy.
Ambrose, David. (2007). Virtual Interactive Communication: A Bicultural Survey Through the Lens of Web2.0. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Georgetown University, Department of German.
Bumgarner, Brett A. (2006). You have been poked: Exploring the uses and gratifications of Facebook among emerging adults. Unpublished Bachelor's Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Cole, Julian. (2007). Even Jesus has a Facebook: The Uses and Gratifications of Online Social Networks. Honors Thesis in Business, Monash University.
Hidalgo, Diego. (2007). Online Social Networks: Social Relations and Mediated Communication. Master's Thesis. University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology.
Jones, Harvey and Jose Hiram Soltren. (2005). Facebook: Threats to Privacy. MIT 6.805/STS085
Kelsic, Eric D. (2005). Understanding complex networks with community-finding algorithms. SURF 2005 final report, Cal-Tech.
Kutlu, Denise and Peter Overgaard. (2007, November). Social Networking Sites: A Comparison of User Experiences on MySpace and Windows Live Spaces. Master's Thesis for IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Laraqui, Jawad (2007) Activity Based Interfaces in Online Social Networks. Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienceat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thesis (MEng)
Lehtinen, Vilma (2007). Maintaining and Extending Social Networks in IRC-galleria. Master's Thesis. University of Helsinki, Department of Social Psychology.
McVeigh-Schultz, Joshua (2007). Uncanny Collisions: Context Clash in Japanese Social Media. Master's Thesis. University of California-Berkeley, Asian Studies.
Mishaud, Edward (2007). Twitter: Expressions of the Whole Self. Master's Thesis. London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications.
Rimorin, Marck Ronald Chang (2007, November). The Articulation of Self in Virtual Environments: The Case of the Self in Friendster.com Home Profiles. Bachelor's Thesis. University of Philippines in Baguio.
Scharmen, Fred (2006, May). You Must Be Logged In To Do That! Yale Arch 752b
Schelling, Jasper. (2007). Social Network Visualization. Hogeschool Rotterdam.
Vanden Boogart, M. R. (2006). Uncovering the social impacts of facebook on a college campus. Unpublished Master of Science Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
This is a list of Web2.0-centric articles that use Social Network Sites as central to the discussion.
Beer, David and Roger Burrows. (2007). Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations. Sociological Research Online, 12 (5).
boyd, danah. (2007). The Significance of Social Software. BlogTalks Reloaded: Social Software Research & Cases (ed. Thomas N. Burg and Jan Schmidt). Norderstedt. 2007. pp 15-30.