stubbs is working on an academic analysis of "friends" within LJ. His work explores what happens when people's definitions of "friend" differ. He prepared a list of different definitions for lj friend ( Read more... )

Hey, I've written a .NET application that takes Friends Lists and turns it into Adjacency Grids for feeding to Network Modeling tools like UCINET. Check out this post, where I have links to a few maps...

After playing with MindMap and looking at some of my old work on social network modelling, I think I've come up with an idea for a next step in MindMap: cluster mapping ( Read more... )

MindMap shows complex friendship relationships using visual clues to describe whole communities of friends.

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As permitted by mcfnord to post here, I am writing a paper for my college English class about blogging/online journals and have written a survey about this topic. I am sorry for the off-topicness, but I figured this may be a good way to get many people's responses and correctly represent many people's opinions instead of just one ( Read more... )

scripty writes:

I was wondering about the implied relationship of the "Friends" connection in LJ ( Read more... )

untilcorruption writes:

While replying to a post, I realized that I censor my journal very heavily by either omitting complete thoughts and ideas or by using carefully constructed friends groups. My friends groups are set up according to who may see them. Example: Although I would not care if a friend A saw a specific entry, I do not want friend B to see it, ( Read more... )

Welcome to weblogsociology! This community examines the sociology of online journals.

• Are online journals or "web logs" a microcosm of real life? How do you choose online friends, vs. real life?
• Is your journal "friends only" and if so, why?
• Are you part of a tight-knit "circle of friends"? If so, what do you all have in common? Are you in the ( Read more... )