The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication

Brooke Foucault Welles is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and core faculty of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. Her research examines technology, social structure, and marginalization, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approaches. She leads the CoMM (Communication Media and Marginalization) Lab, is the co-founder of WiNS (Women in Network Science) and was the 2017 recipient of Northeastern University's Excellence in Teaching Award. Sandra González-Bailón is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliated faculty at the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences. Prior to joining Penn, she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (2008-2013), where she is now a Research Associate. Her research lies at the intersection of network science, data mining, computational tools, and political communication. She leads the DiMeNet (Digital Media, Networks, and Political Communication) research group.

Introduction

1. Introduction: Communication in the Networked Age
Brooke Foucault Welles and Sandra González-Bailón

Part I. Networks and Information Flow

2. Introduction to Part I, Networks and Information Flow: The Second Golden Age
David Lazer

3. Rebooting Mass Communication: Using Computational and Network Tools to Rebuild Media Theory
Katya Ognyanova

4. Propagation Phenomena in Social Media
Meeyoung Cha, Fabrício Benevenuto, Saptarshi Ghosh, and Krishna Gummadi

5. Dynamical Processes in Time-Varying Networks
Bruno Gonçalves and Nicola Perra

6. Partition-Specific Network Analysis of Digital Trace Data: Research Questions and Tools
Deen Freelon

Part II. Communication and Organizational Dynamics

7. Introduction to Part II, Communication and Organizational Dynamics: How Can Computational Social Science Motivate the Development of Theories, Data, and Methods?
Noshir Contractor

8. The New Dynamics of Organizational Change
Matthew S. Weber

9. Online Communication by Emergency Responders During Crisis Events
Emma S. Spiro

10. Studying Populations of Online Communities
Benjamin Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw

11. Gender and Networks in Virtual Worlds
Grace Benefield and Cuihua Shen

Part III. Interactions and Social Capital

12. Introduction to Part III, Understanding Social Dynamics Online: Social Networks, Social Capital, and Social Interactions
Nicole Ellison

13. The Analysis of Social Capital in Digital Environments: A Social Investment Approach
Hazel Kwon

14. Multiplying the Medium: Tie Strength, Social Role, and Mobile Media Multiplexity
Jack Jamieson, Jeffrey Boase, Tetsuro Kobayashi

15. Revolutionizing Mental Health with Social Media
MunMun de Choudhury

16. The Neuroscience of Information Sharing
Christin Scholz and Emily B. Falk

Part IV. Political Communication and Behavior

17. Introduction to Part IV, Political Communication Research in a Networked World
Michael X. Delli Carpini

18. Modeling and Measuring Deliberation Online
Nick Beauchamp

19. Moving Beyond Sentiment Analysis: Social Media and Emotions in Political Communication
Jamie E. Settle

20. Dynamics of Attention and Public Opinion in Social Media
Emilio Ferrara

21. A Satisficing Search Model of Text Production
Drew B. Margolin

22. Studying Networked Communication in the Middle East: Social Disrupter and Social Observatory
Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Muzammil M. Hussain, Ingmar Weber

Part V. Mobility and Space

23. Introduction to Part V, Mobile Space and Agility as the Subversive Partner
Carolyn Marvin

24. One Foot on the Streets, One Foot on the Web: Analyzing the Ecosystem of Protest Movements in an Era of Pervasive Digital Communication
Paolo Gerbaudo

25. Our Stage, Our Streets: Brooklyn Drag and the Queer Imaginary
Jessa Lingel

26. Digital Mapping of Urban Mobility Patterns
Christopher Morrison and Douglas J. Wiebe

27. Research on Mobile Phone Data in the Global South: Opportunities and Challenges
Seyram Avle, Emmanuel Quartey, David Hutchful

Part VI. Ethics of Digital Research

28. Introduction to Part VI, The Ethics of Digital Research
Jeffrey T. Hancock

29. Digital Trace Data and Social Research: A Proactive Research Ethics
Ericka Menchen-Trevino

30. A Practitioner's Guide to Ethical Web Data Collection
Alan Mislove and Christo Wilson

31. Responsible Research on Social Networks: Dilemmas and Solutions
Jon Crowcroft, Hamed Haddadi and Tristan Henderson

32. Unintended Consequences of Using Digital Methods in Difficult Research Environments
Katy E. Pearce

33. Ethical Issues in Internet Research: The Case of China
Bo Mai and Maria Repnikova

34. The Future of Communication Research
Sandra González-Bailón and Brooke Foucault Welles

Index