TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - "I’ll See You on IM, Text, or Call You": A Social Network Approach of Adolescents’ Use of Communication Media
JO  - Bulletin of science, technology and society
A1  - Van Cleemput, Katrien
SP  - 75
EP  - 85
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
N2  - This study explores some possibilities of social network analysis for studying adolescents’ communication patterns. A full network analysis was conducted on third-grade high school students (15 year olds, 137 students) in Belgium. The results pointed out that face-to-face communication was still the most prominent way for information to flow through the network. Interactions through communication media (e-mail, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone, and landline phone), however, supplemented this flow of information in a substantive way. Communication media use patterns were characterized by multiplexity and could be placed on a unidimensional scale indicating a media hierarchy. Close friends (strong ties) used all communication media at their disposal to connect with each other; students who were just friends (weak ties) preferred face-to-face communication and social network sites. In the discussion, some other possibilities of social network analysis for studying adolescents’ communication media are discussed.<p />
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SN  - 0270-4676
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0270467610363143
ID  - ref1
ER  -