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Facebook as a Small World: a topological hypothesis
2011
Facebook is becoming a pervasive entity as its social, cultural and media ramifications grow deep and entrenched in our daily life. Its nature of a complex system of interactions, bearing a strong similarity to networks built through individual choices and systems shaped by evolu- tionary pressure, makes it an interesting target for research. Scale-free Small World networks, recently popularized by Barabasi, are a topological class pertaining to both these domains, whose members have resilience to disruption and short intermediate connections between nodes. In this paper we show that the topological structure of a specific subset of Facebook, gathered using data from a self-report online qu…
Peer Reputation Configurations and Associations with Friendship Adjustment
2023
Peer reputation (PR) refers to how peer groups collectively view an individual in terms of socio-behavioral characteristics, such as aggression, social withdrawal, leadership, and prosociality. Despite considerable research on PR, few studies have considered PRs in relation to indices of friendship, particularly with a person-centered approach. The goal of the current study was to adopt such an approach and identify peer reputation configurations and their defining characteristics, and to examine how such configurations are linked to friendship prevalence and quality. Four hundred and twenty-six Italian seventh-grade students (57.3% male, M-age = 12.07) completed peer nomination measures of…
Children’s beliefs concerning school transition
2016
This study examines preschoolers’ beliefs concerning their transfer into primary education. Data from 1386 Finnish preschoolers were obtained using interviews with parents at the end of the children’s preschool year. The qualitative content analysis revealed categories, which encompassed peer relationships, relationship with teacher, learning, formal schoolwork, informal activities, comfortable school entry and no concerns. The results indicated that children’s beliefs concerning their prospective school entry centred on maintaining and making friendships, and that children possessed both negative and positive expectations about their relationship with their future teacher. Both girls and b…
Teachers' contribution to the social life in Finnish preschool classrooms during structured learning sessions
2013
This study aimed to clarify and deepen the knowledge on and understanding of the role that teachers’ practices during teacher-led learning sessions play in creating and enhancing social life in Finnish preschool classrooms. Observational data pertaining to 20 preschool teachers were analysed according to the principles of thematic analysis. Four identified themes reflected teachers’ contribution to social life in preschool classrooms in relation to their practices under different group compositions: (1) managing children’s peer-relations; (2) promoting the coherence of the group; (3) supporting individual child as a part of group; and (4) discussing friendship and respectfulness. As a concl…
A Comparison of Dyadic and Social Network Assessments of Peer Influence.
2021
The present study compares two methods for assessing peer influence: the longitudinal actor–partner interdependence model (L-APIM) and the longitudinal social network analysis (L-SNA) Model. The data were drawn from 1,995 (49% girls and 51% boys) third grade students ( Mage= 9.68 years). From this sample, L-APIM ( n = 206 indistinguishable dyads and n = 187 distinguishable dyads) and L-SNA ( n = 1,024 total network members) subsamples were created. Students completed peer nominations and objective assessments of mathematical reasoning in the spring of the third and fourth grades. Patterns of statistical significance differed across analyses. Stable distinguishable and indistinguishable L-AP…
Proximal Paradox
2000
In today's societies relationships between near relatives and friends appear to be somewhat paradoxical. Some accounts present them as the social ideal, exalting the solidarity and altruism represented by proximal relationships. By contrast, others point to the social dangers in such relationships when they are conducted in the public sphere. In order to grasp the coexistence of these opposite views, this article attempts to place proximal relationships in the explanatory context of a gift economy, a concept with a long history in anthropology and which has lately been the focus of interest of a significant group of social thinkers.
Subjektīvās labklājības saistība ar draudzības funkciju novērtējumu un sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumiem vīriešiem un sievietēm
2015
Šā pētījuma mērķis bija noskaidrot, kāda ir subjektīvās labklājības saistība ar draudzības funkciju novērtējumu un sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumiem vīriešiem un sievietēm. Pētījumā piedalījās 248 respondenti – 124 vīrieši un 124 sievietes (M=30,92, SD=8,49), kuri elektroniski aizpildīja divas aptaujas – Subjektīvās laimes skalu un draudzības funkciju aptauju, kā arī atbildēja uz jautājumiem par sevi un saviem sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumiem. Rezultāti norāda uz atšķirībām respondentu draudzības funkciju novērtējumā trīs dažādu veidu draugiem: (1) draugiem, kuri tiek satikti ikdienas dzīvē (reāli draugi); (2) draugiem, kuri iepriekš satikti klātienē, tomēr dažādu apstākļu dēļ komunikā…
Time trends of technology mediated communication with friends among bullied and not bullied children in four Nordic countries between 2001 and 2010
2016
Background Friends are important in childhood and adolescence, especially to bullied children. Technology mediated communication (TMC) could be used both to develop and maintain friendship. The present study examined (1) trends in the use of TMC with friends between 2001 and 2010; (2) possible differences between bullied and not bullied children and (3) differences between children with few close friends and children with several close friends. Methods Data were obtained from three waves of the serial cross-sectional Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children survey conducted in Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden during 2001/2002, 2005/2006 and 2009/2010. The total sample consisted of 65 95…
Vennskap i småbarnsavdelinger som private relasjoner på en offentlig arena
2018
Denne artikkelen belyser sma barns utprovinger av sitt sosiale handlingsrepertoar basert pa mikroetnografiske analyser av videobservasjon fra to norske smabarnsavdelinger. Det tas til orde for a beskrive dette som utprovinger av rollen som aktor i et offentlig liv og samtidig kunne etablere ulike typer mer private relasjoner med klare grenser mot en felles offentlighet utenfor, og det undersokes hvordan barn kan mestre kunsten a bevege seg mellom disse to ulike rollene. Artikkelen peker pa barnehagen som en saerskilt institusjonell kontekst preget av eierlose ting og steder som barna hele tiden ma tilegne seg midlertidig bruksrett over. Dette preger hvordan barnas sosiale utprovinger arter …
WhoSNext: Recommending Twitter Users to Follow Using a Spreading Activation Network Based Approach
2020
The huge number of modern social network users has made the web a fertile ground for the growth and development of a plethora of recommender systems. To date, recommending a new user profile X to a given user U that could be interested in creating a relationship with X has been tackled using techniques based on content analysis, existing friendship relationships and other pieces of information coming from different social networks or websites. In this paper we propose a recommending architecture - called WhoSNext (WSN) - tested on Twitter and which aim is promoting the creation of new relationships among users. As recent researches show, this is an interesting recommendation problem: for a …