{"id":531,"date":"2013-07-12T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T07:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/?p=531"},"modified":"2013-07-12T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T07:55:22","slug":"the-dis-embedding-of-social-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/the-dis-embedding-of-social-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dis-Embedding of Social Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PLOS one just published a paper that I co-authored with Paolo Parigi, Bogdan State,\u00a0Diana Dakhlallah, and Karen Cook. It&#8217;s titled &#8220;A Community of Strangers: The Dis-Embedding of Social Ties&#8221; and studies the importance of per-existing social networks for fostering participation in online\u00a0 associations, in this case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couchsurfing.org\" target=\"_blank\">Couchsurfing.org<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this paper we explore two contrasting perspectives on individuals&#8217; participation in associations. On the one hand, some have considered participation the byproduct of pre-existing friendship ties \u2014 the more friends one already has in the association, the more likely he or she is to participate. On the other hand, some have considered participation to be driven by the association&#8217;s capacity to form new identities \u2014 the more new friends one meets in the association, the more likely he or she is to participate. We use detailed temporal data from an online association to adjudicate between these two mechanisms and explore their interplay. Our results show a significant impact of <em>new<\/em> friendship ties on participation, compared to a negligible impact of <em>pre-existing friends<\/em>, defined here as ties to other members formed outside of the organization&#8217;s context. We relate this finding to the sociological literature on participation and we explore its implications in the discussion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full paper is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0067388\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS one just published a paper that I co-authored with Paolo Parigi, Bogdan State,\u00a0Diana Dakhlallah, and Karen Cook. It&#8217;s titled &#8220;A Community of Strangers: The Dis-Embedding of Social Ties&#8221; and studies the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}