Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people in their offline...
Follow the reader: filtering comments on slashdot (2007)
Cliff Lampe, Erik Johnston, Paul Resnick
Large-scale online communities need to manage the tension between critical mass and information overload. Slashdot is a news and discussion site that has used comment rating to allow massive...
A familiar Face(book): Profile elements as signals in an online social network (2007)
Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
Using data from a popular online social network site, this paper explores the relationship between profile structure (namely, which fields are completed) and number of friends, giving designers...
Spatially bounded online social networks and social capital: the role of Facebook (2006)
Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield, Cliff Lampe
In this paper, we examine the use of an online social networking site by Michigan State University undergraduates and its relationship to social capital formation and maintenance, integration into...