For those who overcame the Study 1 hurdle, here’s the intro to Study 2. If it was an episode of Friends, it’d be called “The One About Sex”:
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[PhD] Authors in Reference Manager
Tuesday July 21, 2009 @ 08:59 AM (UTC)I have put all of the authors from the 602 references in my PhD reference manager file into Wordle just to see what would happen. It includes references I’ve not included in the thesis, but is representative of all the papers I’ve read. The image of the references in the PhD is coming next week, after I’ve tagged all the names in that document.
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[PhD] Introduction to Study 1
Monday July 20, 2009 @ 01:15 PM (UTC)For those curious about my research, here’s the introduction to the most recent version of the first empirical chapter in my PhD thesis:
The literature review outlined the interpersonal, normative and structural factors that influence the uptake of an innovative attitude or behaviour, and argued that these factors contribute complimentary but unique explanations for the processes by which people affect others’ thoughts, feelings and actions (Turner, 1991). Trust, credibility, social comparison and prototypicality were described as psychological precursors of influence, while network strength, network position and network density were described as structural descriptors that helped to identify the pathways that influence travelled.
This chapter examines the relationship between psychology and network analysis in the online community Second Life by assessing the effects of network strength on interpersonal and normative influence variables. Specifically, it selected three virtual world behaviours to be proxies for measures of social network strength: the likelihood an avatar would be designated a Second Life partner, the likelihood s/he would be assigned modification permissions, and the frequency with which two account holders interacted via three modes of communication (in public in the virtual world, via Instant Message in the virtual world and outside the virtual world). Each was hypothesised to predict degrees of perceptions of trustworthiness, credibility, social comparison and prototypicality.
These network strength variables were chosen because they raised two issues relating to the presentation of self in this virtual world. First, they highlighted the negotiation of the public and the private self within Second Life. They described activities that occurred in public and private spheres of this online community, between groups of Friends and strangers and on a one-to-one basis. Second, they described the negotiation of offline self in the online world by outlining the amount of access online contacts had to information about the offline identity of the account holder, illustrating that how much an account holder wished to control the virtual self was an accurate reconstruction of his/her offline identity in the online space.
This study was undertaken because network analysts have rarely considered the underlying interpersonal and normative reasons why their measures are effective at describing sub-group homophily or the uptake of innovations. Their measures of network strength are constructed using criteria that imply psychological phenomena (e.g., friendship, opinion leadership, expertise), but these concepts have not been unpacked. By focussing on network strength in this study, this analysis sought to assess the relationships between social psychology and Social Network Analysis, aiming to clarify the psychological explanations for the effectiveness of network strength in predicting influence. -
[PhD] More head noodles
Friday July 17, 2009 @ 06:07 PM (UTC)
This is Study 2 introduction. At least, it was before I got my pencil to it. Now it is a bunch of brain spaghetti.
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[PhD] Possible ending for Study 1
Friday July 17, 2009 @ 03:37 PM (UTC)
Revision is clearly getting to me.
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[PhD] Draft 1 As I Would Submit It
Sunday July 05, 2009 @ 01:28 AM (UTC)This post was originally published on socialsim.wordpress.com
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95,295 words. 299 pages. not quite there yet, but it’s getting closer and closer and closer and closer…
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[PhD] Revisionhell: Head Noodles
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[PhD] Must. Have. T-Shirt: Please don't ask me about my thesis
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[PhD] here's how i'm revising
Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 01:25 AM (UTC)this post was originally published on socialsim
post-its post-its post-its:
all well and good tagging them; it’s when i come to actually doing something about them that’s making me nervous…
more phd here.
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