Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

Social Networks

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 330-342

  Lewis, Kevin ^a   Kaufman, Jason ^a   Gonzalez, Marco ^a   Wimmer, Andreas ^b   Christakis, Nicholas ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Facebook; Higher education; Internet; Network data; Race ethnicity; Tastes

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049120331     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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