-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Yosem! "Networks of practice" seems to be a useful phrase for turning up relevant research in the CMC and management literature, and "group evolution" for the SNA literature.
Cheers, Michael On 02/09/13 20:20, Yosem Companys wrote: > 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 <mailto:mich...@briarproject.org>> > wrote: > > 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 -- 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 <mailto:compa...@stanford.edu>. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSJfXCAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMYzwH/2Lhm+mQFSA0gTDVyaPo/ZE/ n9l4UKkyCefV1aeAoPgqJyzE+VnLtVDhH4wvNhJ9UcxnKtUb0lNwHE7SCHTXMd8l AOVfQzDwqctY1bW96YqRtN77PZ1yQKntKT+fsDQvgvwANAr6nVsDNIFsIN1Ya3Qz ypvL5Ptxs/cZa8rJ5to4IuVJtK7aRtWuRi060fUjXy1fb4LnOp+ub6hMVb8zRZ3y y5L+lNCJanv7Tp8D7yuw16EjsmWfWOSKIrHFbW8X77WwxHowfOivukrI+BNsy5zY URqWr0s36uiR2I7K3wjGUj9XGZPVmDa3nBAJNvpUrmbvAkEUNbL38bYzenLhTp4= =+8vy -----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.