Computer-mediated communication literature has been studying this since the 1980s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated_communication The field has its own journal: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1083-6101 Sociological approaches have studied how the choice to reply, cc or bcc forms social networks: http://www.isi.edu/~adibi/Enron/Enron_Dataset_Report.pdf On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Michael Rogers <mich...@briarproject.org>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > Does anyone on the list know of any research into the way people > communicate in ad hoc groups? By an ad hoc group I mean a group formed > for the duration of a particular communication, such as the list of > people CCed in an email thread, as opposed to a group defined by a > topic, such as a mailing list or IRC channel. > > I'm particularly interested in the way ad hoc groups evolve over time > - - eg as people are added to and removed from CC lists - and the extent > to which members of ad hoc groups also communicate with each other > one-to-one. > > Thanks, > Michael > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSJJcpAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMACQIAIgyi8iYJ3sAfvMJKAz92nUB > GEGkc6VAjneu5/dXYQIvx8ABUlxKGSNvDgi5vAPGLTuHGtlLw1fpusIMWGJUDCWP > caSa4zgukH5LKMqVgso4d1K8t+z6ZIsvuZ20318kg3U3ZUlVv2KIQfOG9DZNW/cz > CuRtzHyHn6FJczhDrC/sHMTIti2q3Bggo//Ir3XZIyj8UE72E3nNxFKYXDIL4c+C > RYwGDB3rP3OyYSls/tHyrXfLNmpkxmTW2aqvUnr59X/tY/n9xxAz728ivzd6KfY3 > aZLJFgQuPMxbuH3soorAVZ4HshyZ/CuWSKiIj5ngNrGYiFXP+ObQH+7xQviwwjo= > =nyM6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. >
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