4 Matching Annotations
- Jul 2018
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www.technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com
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The first comes from Elizabeth Bott, an influential anthropologist who published a book in 1957 called Family and Social Networks. In this book, she hypothesized that the degree of clustering in an individual’s network could draw the person away from a tie with somebody else. In other words, if you are part of a group of close friends or relations, you are less able to make strong links outside this group.
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- Sep 2017
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rampages.us rampages.us
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weak ties in our digital connections or networks,
Are weak ties now more important than strong ties for seeking and finding social support? I am thinking of discussion boards/forums.
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rampages.us rampages.us
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fully integrate into the society.
I wonder if people with social anxiety fear weak ties more? What is the psychological relationship between strong and weak ties? I also wonder about social mobility--do those at the higher levels have more weak ties? Spend more time on their weak ties?
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- Jan 2016
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clintlalonde.net clintlalonde.net
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insert reflective pause to acknowledge the power of weak tie networks here
And references to Granovetter, with his famous 1973 article. This [article on sports media and Twitter](http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20143219270.html sounds contextually relevant.
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