Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Communication in the Networked Age / Brooke Foucault Welles, Sandra Gonzâalez-Bailâon -- The New Dynamics of Organizational Change / Matthew S. Weber -- Online Communication by Emergency Responders during Crisis Events / Emma S. Spiro -- Understanding Social Dynamics Online: Social Networks, Social Capital, and Social Interactions / Nicole Ellison -- Revolutionizing Mental Health with Social Media / Munmun De Choudhury -- The Analysis of Social Capital in Digital Environments: A Social Investment Approach / K. Hazel Kwon -- Multiplying the Medium: Tie Strength, Social Role, and Mobile Media Multiplexity / Jack Jamieson, Jeffrey Boase, Tetsuro Kobayashi -- Mobile Space and Agility as the Subversive Partner / Carolyn Marvin -- Our Stage, Our Streets: Brooklyn Drag and the Queer Imaginary / Jessa Lingel -- Digital Mapping of Urban Mobility Patterns / Douglas J. Wiebe, Christopher N. Morrison -- Political Communication Research in a Networked World / Michael X. Delli Carpini -- Networks and Information Flow: The Second Golden Age / David Lazer -- Moving Beyond Sentiment Analysis: Social Media and Emotions in Political Communication / Jaime E. Settle -- Dynamics of Attention and Public Opinion in Social Media / Emilio Ferrara -- A Satisficing Search Model of Text Production / Drew B. Margolin -- Modeling and Measuring Deliberation Online / Nick Beauchamp -- Studying Networked Communication in the Middle East: Social Disrupter and Social Observatory / Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Muzammil M. Hussain, Ingmar Weber -- The Ethics of Digital Research / Jeffrey T. Hancock -- Unintended Consequences of Using Digital Methods in Difficult Research Environments / Katy E. Pearce -- A Practitioner's Guide to Ethical Web Data Collection / Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson -- Responsible Research on Social Networks: Dilemmas and Solutions / Jon Crowcroft, Hamed Haddadi, Tristan Henderson -- Digital Trace Data and Social Research: A Proactive Research Ethics / Ericka Menchen-Trevino -- Partition-Specific Network Analysis of Digital Trace Data: Research Questions and Tools / Deen Freelon -- Conclusion: The Past and Future of Communication Research / Sandra Gonzâalez-Bailâon, Brooke Foucault Welles -- Ethical Issues in Internet Research: The Case of China / Bo Mai, Maria Repnikova -- 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 -- Research on Mobile Phone Data in the Global South: Opportunities and Challenges / Seyram Avle, Emmanuel Quartey, David Hutchful -- The Neuroscience of Information Sharing / Christin Scholz, Emily B. Falk -- Dynamical Processes in Time-Varying Networks / Bruno Gonðcalves, Nicola Perra -- Rebooting Mass Communication: Using Computational and Network Tools to Rebuild Media Theory / Katherine Ognyanova -- Propagation Phenomena in Social Media / Meeyoung Cha, Fabrâicio Benevenuto, Saptarshi Ghosh, Krishna Gummadi -- How Can Computational Social Science Motivate the Development of Theories, Data, and Methods to Advance Our Understanding of Communication and Organizational Dynamics? / Noshir Contractor -- Studying Populations of Online Communities / Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw -- Gender and Networks in Virtual Worlds / Grace Benefield, Cuihua Shen.

Communication technologies, including the Internet, social media, and countless online applications, create the infrastructure and interface through which many of our interactions take place today. This form of networked communication creates new questions about how we establish relationships, engage in public, build a sense of identity, and delimit the private domain. Digital technologies have also enabled new ways of observing the world; many of our daily interactions leave a digital trail that, if followed, can help us unravel the rhythms of social life and the complexity of the world we inhabit, including dynamics of change. The analysis of digital data requires partnerships across disciplinary boundaries that are still uncommon. This book bridges academic silos so that we can address the big puzzles that beat at the heart of social life in this networked age.

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