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2. How variation in internet access, digital skills, and media use are related to rural student outcomes: GPA, SAT, and educational aspirations
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Hampton, Keith N., Robertson, Craig T., Fernandez, Laleah, Shin, Inyoung, and Bauer, Johannes M.
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- 2021
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3. Network Instability in Times of Stability
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Marin, Alexandra and Hampton, Keith N.
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- 2019
4. Lost and Saved . . . Again : The Moral Panic about the Loss of Community Takes Hold of Social Media
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Hampton, Keith N. and Wellman, Barry
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- 2018
5. Studying the Digital: Directions and Challenges for Digital Methods
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Hampton, Keith N.
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- 2017
6. Change in the social life of urban public spaces : The rise of mobile phones and women, and the decline of aloneness over 30 years
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Hampton, Keith N, Goulet, Lauren Sessions, and Albanesius, Garrett
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- 2015
7. Disciplinary brakes on the sociology of digital media: the incongruity of communication and the sociological imagination.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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SOCIOLOGICAL imagination , *DIGITAL communications , *DIGITAL media , *SCHOLARLY method , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper draws on my experience over two decades as part of an early generation of scholars who graduated with a PhD in sociology into a career as a researcher and teacher in the multidisciplinary field of digital media. I reflect on my experiences to offer an assessment of the state of digital media scholarship within sociology and the field of communication. The study of digital media remains underdeveloped within sociology. In part, this is due to disciplinary failures, an array of relevant, specialized areas within sociology have yet to fully realize the role of digital media. Sociological perspectives are also constrained through a dominant 'communication perspective' at the center of the field of communication. Communication is home to most digital media scholars and uses its institutional dominance to arbitrate what qualifies as scholarship. Whereas communication serves as a plural disciplinary catch-all for the subjects of the social sciences, it often does so without crossing the boundaries of a relatively homogeneous, epistemological framework. That framework does not adequately represent sociological perspectives on digital media. I point to key differences between sociology and communication that tend to marginalize sociological perspectives. These differences have also served to render the field of communication less relevant to sociology (and likely to other disciplines in the social sciences). I stress the importance of building institutions and practices that support (multi)disciplinary representation in the field to strengthen sociology and other perspectives and avoid a myopic lens on our understanding of digital media and social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Disconnection More Problematic for Adolescent Self-Esteem than Heavy Social Media Use: Evidence from Access Inequalities and Restrictive Media Parenting in Rural America.
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Hampton, Keith N. and Shin, Inyoung
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YOUNG adults , *RURAL Americans , *SCREEN time , *SOCIAL media , *TEENAGERS , *TEENAGE parents , *PARASOCIAL relationships - Abstract
Some argue that social media use displaces time that adolescents spend with friends and family and is therefore associated with lower psychological well-being. They reason that young people who experience "disconnection," because their parents actively restrict media use, or they have limited material access to the Internet, are better protected from psychological harm. Prior research has misspecified and exaggerated the magnitude of the relationship between screen time and adolescent psychological well-being. If the harm associated with heavy (excessive) or even average use of new media has been overstated, then the recommendation of disconnection may also be problematic. New media use is heavily integrated into youth culture and sociality, restrictive media parenting practices or digital inequalities may rob adolescents of experiences that would otherwise be protective of self-esteem. We conducted a survey of rural adolescents, who are more likely to experience disconnection at home because of a lack of physical availability of broadband, not simply affordability. Based on that survey, we find that a negative relationship between screen time and lower self-esteem is eclipsed by a more substantive, negative relationship to inequalities in material access to the Internet and restrictive mediation of media by parents. Findings show that new media use does not substantively displace time spent socializing with family and friends and in other social activities (e.g., volunteering). Omitting the supportive, indirect relationship between time on social media and self-esteem, through time spent socializing, exaggerates the negative relationship between social media use and adolescent well-being for girls, and for boys, misspecified the direction of the relationship. Adolescents, who experience heavy restrictive mediation of media by parents or have limited Internet access at home, tend to report substantively lower self-esteem than heavy users of any new media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. New media use and the belief in a just world: awareness of life events and the perception of fairness for self and injustice for others.
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Shin, Inyoung and Hampton, Keith N.
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SELF-perception , *AWARENESS , *SOCIAL movements , *SOCIAL support , *JUSTICE , *SOCIAL media , *TEXT messages , *INTEROCEPTION - Abstract
The disclosure of life events is among the most common behaviors on social media and is part of the everyday activities revealed through the use of many other new media. This paper explores the awareness of major life events through these media as they relate to a person's belief in a just world for themselves and others. Using survey data, we find that text messaging, commenting on Facebook, and having more Facebook friends are associated with awareness of desirable events. Passive modes of communication, e.g., the use of the 'like' interaction on Facebook, are related to an awareness of both desirable and undesirable life events across a greater range of social ties. Awareness of undesirable events in the lives of strong ties fosters a lower perception of equity and justice for others, whereas an awareness of desirable experiences in the lives of strong ties is related to greater, perceived, personal justice. We discuss the implications of the awareness of major life events through new media in terms of the psychological benefits that can come from the vicarious joy and comfort one receives from other's experiences; what we call mudita and comfort from others (MACO). We argue that the long-term, cumulative effects of greater awareness of undesirable life events may lend support to social movements that seek to reduce injustices experienced by disadvantaged groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. photo ESSAY: the social life of wireless urban spaces
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hampton, keith n., livio, oren, trachtenberg, craig, and mcewen, rhonda
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- 2010
11. COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVIEWING: THE DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF SURVEY SOFTWARE TO THE WIRED SUBURB PROJECT
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Hampton, Keith N.
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- 1999
12. The feasibility of measuring social networks among older adults in assisted living and dementia special care units
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Abbott, Katherine M., Bettger, Janet Prvu, Hampton, Keith N., and Kohler, Hans-Peter
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- 2015
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13. The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm
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Hampton, Keith N., Livio, Oren, and Goulet, Lauren Sessions
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Internet -- Social aspects ,Public spaces -- Social aspects ,Social networks -- Social aspects ,Wireless communication systems -- Services ,Wireless communication systems -- Social aspects ,Internet ,Wireless voice/data service ,Sociology and social work - Abstract
To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01510.x Byline: Keith N. Hampton (1), Oren Livio (1), Lauren Sessions Goulet (1) Abstract: This study explores the role of urban public spaces for democratic and social engagement. It examines the impact of wireless Internet use on urban public spaces, Internet users, and others who inhabit these spaces. Through observations of 7 parks, plazas, and markets in 4 North American cities, and surveys of wireless Internet users in those sites, we explore how this new technology is related to processes of social interaction, privatism, and democratic engagement. Findings reveal that Internet use within public spaces affords interactions with existing acquaintances that are more diverse than those associated with mobile phone use. However, the level of colocated social diversity to which Internet users are exposed is less than that of most users of these spaces. Yet, online activities in public spaces do contribute to broader participation in the public sphere. Internet connectivity within public spaces may contribute to higher overall levels of democratic and social engagement than what is afforded by exposure within similar spaces free of Internet connectivity. Author Affiliation: (1) Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Article note: Keith N. Hampton; e-mail: khampton@asc.upenn.edu
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- 2010
14. Mobile Phones Will Not Eliminate Digital and Social Divides: How Variation in Internet Activities Mediates the Relationship Between Type of Internet Access and Local Social Capital in Detroit.
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Reisdorf, Bianca C., Fernandez, Laleah, Hampton, Keith N., Shin, Inyoung, and Dutton, William H.
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INTERNET access ,CELL phones ,SOCIAL capital ,DIGITAL divide ,INTERNET ,DATA plans - Abstract
This study examines the relationship between mode of Internet access, variety of online activities, and the potential for the Internet to contribute to local social capital in distressed, urban communities. Based on a sample of 525 telephone surveys in Detroit, findings show that breadth of access predicts participation in a larger variety of online activities, which is associated with higher levels of local social capital. Neither public Internet access, home broadband, nor Internet access through a mobile phone data plan alone affords participation in a full range of social capital-enhancing activities. The findings highlight the potential problems of initiatives that assume equivalent social outcomes through nonequivalent modes of access, such as providing Internet access through mobile phones in place of home broadband. Efforts to enhance a city's social infrastructure by providing Internet access are best served when individuals have multiple points of access available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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15. Rural students' access to Wi-Fi is in jeopardy as pandemic-era resources recede.
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Hales, Gabriel E., University, Michigan State, and Hampton, Keith N.
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PANDEMICS ,WIRELESS Internet ,INFRASTRUCTURE Investment & Jobs Act, 2021 ,SELF-esteem ,STUDENT aspirations - Abstract
Despite efforts during the pandemic to provide internet access to rural students, many still lack high-speed broadband at home. This lack of access has negative effects on their academic achievement and overall well-being. A study conducted in rural Michigan found that one-third of students still do not have reliable internet access. The decline in access is expected to continue as resources from pandemic emergency measures diminish. The lack of access to reliable internet hinders students' digital skills, academic performance, and interest in STEM careers. Additionally, rural students without adequate home internet are at a higher risk of social isolation. Efforts to bridge the access divide, such as accurate mapping and infrastructure improvements, are ongoing but will take time to be realized. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
16. Social Media and Change in Psychological Distress Over Time: The Role of Social Causation.
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Hampton, Keith N
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PSYCHOLOGICAL distress ,INFORMATION & communication technologies ,CAUSATION (Philosophy) ,SOCIAL media ,INTERNET ,CELL phones ,MENTAL depression ,ANXIETY disorders - Abstract
This article tests the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICT), such as the Internet, cell phones, and social media, and change over time in psychological distress (PD) and risk of serious psychological distress (SPD) associated with depression and anxiety disorders. Using a longitudinal panel design, survey data from a representative sample of American adults, findings revealed that home Internet and social network site (SNS) use are associated with decreased PD over time. Having extended family who are also Internet users further decreases PD. PD increased or decreased in relation to change in the PD of extended family who also use SNSs. For most people, ICT substantively reduce PD; in rare cases, an extreme spike in PD of extended family also on SNSs, there was a trivial increase to the risk of SPD. PD did not change when extended family not on social media experienced a change in their PD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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17. Internet use and the concentration of disadvantage: glocalization and the urban underclass
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Hampton, Keith N.
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Internet -- Research ,Internet -- Usage ,Information technology -- Research ,Electronic messaging systems -- Usage ,Digital divide (Technology) -- Research ,Internet ,Information technology ,Wireless messaging service ,Psychology and mental health ,Social sciences - Abstract
This article argues that the literature on digital inequality - in its focus on individual characteristics, behaviors, and outcomes-has overlooked change within the context of where social and civic inequalities are reproduced. This omission is the result of a failure to explore the role of ecological context within the study of the digital divide and the role of communication within the study of collective efficacy. Social cohesion, and an expectation for informal social control at the neighborhood level, is a function of both ecological context and media context. Those embedded within settings where prior media, including the telephone and face-to-face contact, could not overcome contextual barriers to collective action, namely within areas of concentrated disadvantage; may now, as a result of local Internet use, experience reduced social and civic inequality. This article is based on the results of a 3-year naturalistic experiment that examined the use of the Internet for communication at the neighborhood level. It proposes a new measure of collective efficacy - in place of network measures or perceived cohesion - based on the direct observation of communication practices. The analysis includes a model of the ecological characteristics associated with neighborhoods that adopted the Internet as a means of local information exchange, and it provides a comparison of the content of electronic messages exchanged within areas of advantage and those of extreme poverty, unemployment, and racial segregation. Findings suggest that as much as the Internet supports social and civic engagement in areas where it is already likely to be high, it also affords engagement within contexts of extreme disadvantage.
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- 2010
18. Social media and political discussion: when online presence silences offline conversation.
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Hampton, Keith N., Shin, Inyoung, and Lu, Weixu
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SOCIAL media , *POLITICAL science , *ONLINE social networks - Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between the use of social media, attitudinal strength, perceived opinion agreement with social ties, and willingness to discuss a political issue in different online and offline contexts. Unlike the anonymous environment of some Internet forums, social media are closely tied to the relationships and activities of everyday life. Social media increasingly make ties from offline contexts persistent online, and, because of the ambient nature of these technologies, awareness of the opinions, interests, and activities of social ties has become pervasive. As such, the use of social media is likely to affect everyday conversation about political issues in on- and offline contexts, including the home, workplace, social gatherings with friends, community meetings, and on social network sites (SNSs). Based on a national probability survey, we find that the use of SNSs (i.e., Facebook and Twitter) has a direct, negative relationship to deliberation in many offline settings. Some uses of these platforms are associated with having a lower, perceived opinion agreement with social ties. As part of a spiral of silence, this further reduces the willingness of social media users to join political conversations in some offline settings. Only those with the strongest attitudes on an issue are immune. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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19. Beyond the power of networks: Differentiating network structure from social media affordances for perceived social support.
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Lu, Weixu and Hampton, Keith N.
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SOCIAL support , *SUPPORTIVE communication , *SOCIAL capital , *ONLINE social networks , *SOCIAL perception , *SOCIAL media - Abstract
Existing research suggests that social media use is associated with higher levels of social capital—the resources contained within a person’s network of friends, family, and other acquaintances. However, in predicting access to these resources, it has been impossible to distinguish the affordances of social media from the underlying advantage of maintaining a favorable social network of relationships on- and offline. Based on data from a representative, national survey, we compare the relationship between social network structure and various activities on Facebook for one type of resource: informal social support in the form of companionship, emotional support, and tangible aid. In addition to a positive association between number of close ties, overall network size and diversity and social support, we find that Facebook status updates and private messaging are independently associated with perceived support. We argue that these affordances are an outcome of the “pervasive awareness” provided by social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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20. Why is Helping Behavior Declining in the United States But Not in Canada?: Ethnic Diversity, New Technologies, and Other Explanations.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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ALTRUISM , *CULTURAL pluralism , *MULTICULTURALISM , *NEIGHBORHOODS & society , *HISTORY - Abstract
This paper explores whether there has been a recent decline in helping behavior in the United States. In a lost letter experiment, 7,466 letters were 'lost' in 63 urban areas in the United States and Canada in 2001 and 2011. There has been a 10 percent decline in helping behavior in the United States, but not in Canada. Two arguments anticipate change in the level of help provided to strangers: the rise of new technologies, and neighborhood racial and ethnic diversity. Findings exclude increased privatism as a source for the decline in helping. In 2001 there was no variation in altruistic behavior based on neighborhood diversity. However, areas of the United States where the proportion of noncitizens increased since 2001 experienced reduced helping; the opposite was found in Canada. Possible explanations include changing attitudes toward noncitizens, and differences in public policy related to economic inequality, social inclusion, and the acceptance of multiculturalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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21. Digital media and stress: the cost of caring 2.0.
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Hampton, Keith N., Lu, Weixu, and Shin, Inyoung
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DIGITAL media , *PSYCHOLOGICAL stress , *LIFE change events , *SOCIAL media , *INTERNET - Abstract
This research explores the relationship between the use of digital media and stress. Based on the findings of a national, probability sample of adults in the United States, the use of digital media was not directly associated with higher levels of psychological stress. Some uses of digital media were associated with lower levels of perceived stress for women but not for men. However, the evidence suggests that, for men and women, digital media provides heightened awareness of network life events (AoNLE) in the lives of both close and more distant acquaintances. An awareness of undesirable, major life events in the lives of others can be a source of psychological stress; this is the cost of caring. Thus, the link between digital media and stress is indirect. We argue that the growth of digital media is related to changes in the structure of peoples’ personal communities that contribute to this trend. There has been a shift toward networks that offer persistent contact and pervasive awareness. Findings suggest that different mobile technologies, Internet technologies, and social media afford AoNLE for men and women, but women tend to report greater psychological stress than men, and they experience psychological stress from a wider range of AoNLE. We discuss explanations for the negative relationship between technology use and stress for women, as well as the implications of our findings for research on the use of digital media and psychological well-being, such as the relationship to social support, narcissism and empathy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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22. Persistent and Pervasive Community.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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NETWORK society , *SOCIAL capital , *COMMUNITY organization , *DIGITAL communications , *INDUSTRIALISM - Abstract
Two affordances of digital communication technologies, persistent contact and pervasive awareness, are ushering in fundamental change to the structure of community. These affordances break from the mobility narrative that has described community since the rise of urban industrialism, including accounts of networked individualism and a postindustrial or a network society. In contrast to images of late modernity, which suggest that mobility will be maximized to the point where people are nearly free from the constraints of time, space, and social bonds, persistent–pervasive community renews the constraints and opportunities of premodern community structure. As a result of persistence—a counterforce to mobility—relationships and the social contexts where they are formed are less transitory than at any time in modern history. Through the ambient, lean, asynchronous nature of social media, awareness supplements surveillance with the informal watchfulness typified in preindustrial community. It provides for closeness and information exchange unlike what can be communicated through other channels. Social media and the algorithms behind them generate not only context collapse but an audience problem that, when managed through a dynamic balance between broadcasting and monitoring content, enhances indicators of awareness and availability of social ties. Persistent–pervasive community represents a period of metamodernity. It is a hybrid of preindustrial and urban-industrial community structures that will affect the availability of social capital, the success of collective action, the cost of caring, deliberation around important issues, and how lives are linked over the life course and across generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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23. Communication in City and Community.
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Katz, Vikki S. and Hampton, Keith N.
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ETHNOLOGY , *INTERNET , *SCHOLARSHIPS - Abstract
An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including classic street ethnography; impact of community-level features on family decisions about adopting broadband Internet; and evolution of Chicago School's focus within scholarship on media.
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- 2016
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24. ThemeDelta: Dynamic Segmentations over Temporal Topic Models.
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Gad, Samah, Javed, Waqas, Ghani, Sohaib, Elmqvist, Niklas, Ewing, Tom, Hampton, Keith N., and Ramakrishnan, Naren
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VISUAL analytics ,IMAGE segmentation ,PRESIDENTIAL messages ,CAMPAIGN speeches ,TIME series analysis - Abstract
We present ThemeDelta, a visual analytics system for extracting and visualizing temporal trends, clustering, and reorganization in time-indexed textual datasets. ThemeDelta is supported by a dynamic temporal segmentation algorithm that integrates with topic modeling algorithms to identify change points where significant shifts in topics occur. This algorithm detects not only the clustering and associations of keywords in a time period, but also their convergence into topics (groups of keywords) that may later diverge into new groups. The visual representation of ThemeDelta uses sinuous, variable-width lines to show this evolution on a timeline, utilizing color for categories, and line width for keyword strength. We demonstrate how interaction with ThemeDelta helps capture the rise and fall of topics by analyzing archives of historical newspapers, of U.S. presidential campaign speeches, and of social messages collected through iNeighbors, a web-based social website. ThemeDelta is evaluated using a qualitative expert user study involving three researchers from rhetoric and history using the historical newspapers corpus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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25. Bridging the Divide in Democratic Engagement: Studying Conversation Patterns in Advantaged and Disadvantaged Communities.
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Gad, Samah, Ramakrishnan, Naren, Hampton, Keith N., and Kavanaugh, Andrea
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- 2012
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26. Internet Use and the Concentration of Disadvantage: Glocalization and the Urban Underclass.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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GLOCALIZATION ,INTERNET ,ONLINE social networks ,EQUALITY ,SOCIAL groups - Abstract
Studies of digital inequality have found few examples where those who experience extreme disadvantage benefit from the Internet in a way that reduces inequalities in social and civic engagement. However, by focusing on individual attributes associated with access and use, the study of digital inequality has not considered unique affordances of the Internet that might disrupt established contexts at the community-level where social and civic inequalities are reproduced. This paper argues that in the context of concentrated disadvantage, previous forms of social contact, including the telephone and face-to-face communication, compelled spatial and temporal costs to communication not generally experienced in settings with less social inequality. The Internet reduces the transaction costs of communication, within local space as much as it does across distant space, and in turn, undermines contextual constraints on collective efficacy. This paper is based on the results of a three-year naturalistic experiment that examined the use of the Internet for communication at the neighborhood level. The analysis includes a modeling of the ecological characteristics associated with neighborhoods that adopted the Internet as a means of local information exchange, and a comparison of the content of electronic messages exchanged within areas of advantage and those of extreme disadvantage. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
27. The Diversity of Personal and Neighborhood Networks in the Informational City.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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SOCIAL networks ,INTERNET ,INTERNET users ,SOCIAL groups ,NEIGHBORHOODS - Abstract
The 1990s were characterized by rapid technological change and ramped speculation about the social ramifications of a new information society. Pundits argued that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) would allow people to form new "virtual communities," or that ICTs would destroy community all together. The common link within research on community and the Internet has been an argument for the declining importance of place-based relations. Neighborhood interactions are lost through isolation in the home, or are replaced by social ties that are more easily maintained online. Existing studies of the impact of Internet use on community have focused on 1) studies of inexperienced technology users, 2) observations of online relationships that ignored the crosscutting nature of social networks, and 3) broadly supportive social ties while ignoring other sources of support. This paper uses a network "position generator" to examine social ties regardless of tie strength. Using survey data from the MIT E-neighbors study this paper argues that Internet use both encourages and discourages network diversity. This paper finds that those who use the Web more frequently (for other than email use) have personal networks that are less extensive than those with less frequent Web use. Online experience counters some of the negative affects of Web use. There is no evidence that Web use has a negative impact on social networks at the neighborhood level. However, while having no affect on social ties outside of the local setting, frequent email users have more extensive neighborhood based social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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28. Part IV: The Wired Homestead and Civic Life: Chapter 21: Examining Community in the Digital Neighborhood: Early Results from Canada's Wired Suburb.
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Hampton, Keith N. and Wellman, Barry
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- 2003
29. EXPLAINING COMMUNICATION DISPLACEMENT AND LARGE-SCALE SOCIAL CHANGE IN CORE NETWORKS.
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Hampton, Keith N. and Ling, Richard
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TELEMATICS , *SOCIAL media , *SOCIAL change , *MEDIA richness theory (Communication) , *SOCIAL isolation - Abstract
Decline in the size and diversity of American's core networks has been tied to the displacement of face-to-face interaction and to lower societal well-being. Comparing core networks in the United States, Norway, and Ukraine, we reject the conclusions that frequent in-person contact predicts individual well-being and that large/diverse networks predict broader societal well-being. Individuals of lower socioeconomic status (SES) and societies with lower levels of overall prosperity have higher rates of in-person contact. Internet use is associated with higher in-person contact for the socioeconomically advantaged but lower rates of in-person contact for the disadvantaged. In-person and ICT-based contact is generally associated with maintaining a larger network, but in societies of lower well-being frequent interaction impedes the ability to maintain a large network. In contrast to the positive relationship between individual SES and network size, societal prosperity has a negative relationship to network size. Findings are discussed in relation to social support, democratic engagement, and the digital divide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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30. How new media affords network diversity: Direct and mediated access to social capital through participation in local social settings.
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Hampton, Keith N., Lee, Chul-joo, and Her, Eun Ja
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INFORMATION & communication technologies , *SOCIAL networks , *PUBLIC spaces , *RELIGIOUS groups , *NEIGHBORHOODS , *MULTICULTURALISM - Abstract
The article presents a study which examined the relationship of information and communication technologies (ICT) with participation in local public life and diversity of people's social networks. Findings attribute people's network diversity to their participation in traditional foci of activity. The researchers argue on the role of the different types of social settings including public spaces, semi-public spaces, religious groups and neighborhood ties in network diversity. Analysis showed few direct relationships between network diversity and the use of ICTs such as Internet use, use of landline phone and mobile phone, social networking services, blogging and instant messaging.
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- 2011
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31. COMPARING BONDING AND BRIDGING TIES FOR DEMOCRATIC ENGAGEMENT.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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SOCIAL networks , *INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) , *INTERNET , *CELL phones , *GLOCALIZATION - Abstract
The structure of people's social networks predicts democratic engagement. However, the relative contribution of different types of social ties to civic and civil behaviors is unclear. This paper explores the role of core networks - bonding social capital - to the role of overall network diversity - bridging social capital - for participation in formal civic institutions and informal civil behaviors. Emphasis is placed on the possible role of heterogeneity within core networks - political disagreement and the presence of nonkin ties - and on frequency of interaction, in-person and mediated: mobile phone and the Internet. This study finds that overall network diversity is a more consistent and substantive predictor of civic and civil behaviors than the size or heterogeneity of the small number of ties that make up the core network of most people. The two dominant new media used to interact with core network members - email and mobile phones - are unrelated to any of the behaviors measured. Some other media - contact in-person, postal mail, texting, instant messaging, and social network services - have an inconsistent and modest relationship to civic and civil behaviors. Findings lead to speculation that political disagreement within core networks, typically associated with lower levels of political participation, has a spillover effect that results in other forms of democratic engagement. There is evidence of glocalization; contact with core ties using new media supports local civil and civic behaviors. Internet use largely supports democratic engagement through interaction with bridging, but not bonding ties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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32. CORE NETWORKS, SOCIAL ISOLATION, AND NEW MEDIA.
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Hampton, Keith N., Sessions, Lauren F., and Her, Eun Ja
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SOCIAL networks , *SOCIAL isolation , *SOCIAL surveys , *SOCIAL media , *CELL phones & society , *INTERNET & society , *POLITICAL affiliation - Abstract
Evidence from the US General Social Surveys (GSS) suggests that during the past 20 years, people have become increasingly socially isolated and their core discussion networks have become smaller and less diverse. One explanation offered for this trend is the use of mobile phones and the Internet. This study reports on the findings of a 2008 survey that replicates and expands on the GSS network methodology to explore the relationship between the use of new technologies and the size and diversity of core networks. The findings conflict with the results of the 2004 GSS, i.e. we find that social isolation has not increased since 1985. However, the current study supports the conclusions that the size of core networks has declined and the number of nonkin in core networks has diminished. Mobile phone and Internet use, especially specific uses of social media, were found to have a positive relationship to network size and diversity. In discussing these trends, we speculate that specific social media provide for a 'pervasive awareness' within personal networks that has increased the specialization of close ties. We argue that this same pervasive awareness provides for heightened surveillance of network members, the result of which is a higher level of perceived diversity within networks based on metrics that include political affiliation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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33. the social life of wireless urban spaces.
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Hampton, Keith N., Iivio, Oren, TraChtenberg, Craig, and McEwen, Rhonda
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PHOTOJOURNALISM ,MANNERS & customs - Abstract
A photo essay which documents the social life of wireless urban spaces in Toronto, Ontario and the U.S. is presented.
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- 2010
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34. Community and social interaction in the wireless city: wi-fi use in public and semi-public spaces.
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HAMPTON, KEITH N. and GUPTA, NEETI
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RESEARCH on Internet users , *WIRELESS Internet , *INTERPERSONAL communication , *COMMUNITY life - Abstract
A significant body of research has addressed whether fixed internet use increases, decreases or supplements the ways in which people engage in residential and workplace settings, but few studies have addressed how wireless internet use in public and semi-public spaces influences social life. Ubiquitous wi-fi adds a new dimension to the debate over how the internet may influence the structure of community. Will wireless internet use facilitate greater engagement with co-located others or encourage a form of 'public privatism'? This article reports the findings of an exploratory ethnographic study of how wi-fi was used and influenced social interactions in four different settings: paid and free wi-fi cafes in Boston, MA and Seattle,WA. This study found contrasting uses for wireless internet and competing implications for community. Two types of practices, typified in the behaviors of 'true mobiles' and 'placemakers', offer divergent futures for how wireless internet use may influence social relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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35. EDITORIAL COMMENT.
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Hampton, Keith N. and Wellman, Barry
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WEBSITES , *SOCIAL networks - Abstract
The article discusses various reports in this issue including one by Emily Thorson on political issues in the "New York Times" web site and another by Jeffrey Boarse on personal networks.
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- 2008
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36. Neighborhoods in the Network Society the e-Neighbors study.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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NEIGHBORHOODS , *SOCIAL networks , *TELEMATICS , *INTERNET , *POLITICAL communication , *SOCIAL ecology , *INTERNET in public administration , *LOCAL mass media , *ELECTRONIC villages (Computer networks) , *INFORMATION science - Abstract
This study examines whether the Internet is increasingly a part of everyday neighborhood interactions, and in what specific contexts Internet use affords the formation of local social ties. Studies of Internet and community have found that information and communication technologies provide new opportunities for social interaction, but that they may also increase privatism by isolating people in their homes. This paper argues that while the Internet may encourage communication across great distances, it may also facilitate interactions near the home. Unlike traditional community networking studies, which focus on bridging the digital divide, this study focuses on bridging the divide between the electronic and parochial realms. Detailed, longitudinal social network surveys were completed with the residents of four contrasting neighborhoods over a period of three years. Three of the four neighborhoods were provided with a neighborhood email discussion list and a neighborhood website. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to model over time the number of strong and weak ties, emailed, met in-person, and talked to on the telephone. The neighborhood email lists were also analyzed for content. The results suggest that with experience using the Internet, the size of local social networks and email communication with local networks increases. The addition of a neighborhood email list further increases the number of weak neighborhood ties, but does not increase communication multiplexity. However, neighborhood effects reduce the influence of everyday Internet use, as well as the experimental intervention, in communities that lack the context to support local tie formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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37. Simplifying the Personal Network Name Generator: Alternatives to Traditional Multiple and Single Name Generators.
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Marin, Alexandra and Hampton, Keith N.
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SOCIAL networks , *SOCIAL support , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *TRANSLATORS , *WEIGHTS & measures - Abstract
Researchers studying personal networks often collect network data using name generators and name interpreters. We argue that when studying social support, multiple name generators ensure that researchers sample from a multidimensional definition of support. However, because administering multiple name generators is time consuming and strains respondent motivation, researchers often use single name generators. We compared network measures obtained from single generators to measures obtained from a six-item multiple-name generator. Although some single generators provided passable estimates of some measures, no single generator provided reliable estimates across a broad spectrum of network measures. We then evaluated two alternative methods of reducing respondent burden: (1) the MMG a multiple generator using the two most robust name generators and (2) the MGRI, a six-item name generator with name interpreters administered for a random subset of alters. Both the MMG and the MGRI were more reliable than single generators when measuring size, density, and mean measures of network composition or activity, though some single name generators were more reliable for measures consisting of sums or counts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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38. Grieving for a Lost Network: Collective Action in a Wired Suburb.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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INFORMATION technology , *INFORMATION society , *COMMUNITY relations , *SOCIAL interaction - Abstract
Critics have argued that information and communication technologies (ICTs) disconnect people from their social networks and reduce public participation. Research in support of this perspective has been biased by two assumptions. The first is a tendency to privilege the Internet as a social system removed from the other ways people communicate. The second is a tendency to favor broadly supportive strong social ties. Survey and ethnographic observations from Netville, a 2-year community networking experiment, suggest that weak, not strong ties experience growth as a result of ICTs. By examining a unique and underexplored stage in the life cycle of a community networking project, the end of a networking trial, this article demonstrates how ICTs facilitate community participation and collective action (a) by creating large, dense networks of relatively weak social ties and (b) through the use of ICTs as an organizing tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. Netville Online and Offline.
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Hampton, Keith N. and Wellman, Barry
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INFORMATION technology , *INTERNET users - Abstract
Since the mid-1850s, scholars have debated how technological innovation would affect community. The debate continues as the Internet makes it increasingly possible for people to socialize, shop, work, learn, and participate in leisure activities all from within their home. Will the movement of these previously public activities into the private realm lead to reduced participation in public activities? What will be the fate of community and social relations as a result of the growth of computer-mediated communication ? Netville is a suburban Toronto development equipped with a high-speed network as part of its design. The clustering of homes within this area allowed us to study the social networks, civic involvement, Internet use, and attitudes of residents. This article explores the research approach of the Netville project and describes its main sources of data collection: surveys collected using computer-assisted interviewing and ethnographic fieldwork. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
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40. LIVING THE WIRED LIFE IN THE WIRED SUBURB: NETVILLE, GLOCALISATION AND CIVIC SOCIETY.
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Hampton, Keith N.
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,DEBATE ,INTERNET users ,TELEMATICS ,VIRTUAL communities ,COMPUTER networks ,INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) - Published
- 2001
41. Is Technology Making People Less Sociable?
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ROSEN, LARRY and HAMPTON, KEITH N.
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MOBILE communication systems , *SOCIAL skills , *ONLINE social networks , *INTERNET & society - Abstract
The article discusses the impact of mobile technology on the social skills of people. Topics covered include the reported growth of online social networks, how technology changed people's social communications according to research psychologist Larry Rosen, and how technology like the Internet and online social networking site Facebook enhanced people's relationships according to Rutger University professor Keith N. Hampton.
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- 2015
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