@inbook {407, title = {The constant contact generation: exploring teen friendship networks online}, booktitle = {Girl Wide Web. Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation for Identity}, year = {2005}, pages = {203-222}, abstract = {Given the rapidly growing presence of girls online, serious academic inquiry into the relationship between girls and the Internet is imperative. Girl Wide Web is an innovative collection of cutting-edge research exploring a wide sweep of issues related to the ways adolescent girls interact with the Internet. Employing a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives primarily within cultural studies, the authors examine a variety of topics-from instant messaging and web-diaries to online fan communities and Internet advertising that targets young girls. Taken together, these essays provide a rich portrait of the complex relationship among girls, the Internet, and the negotiation of identity.}, keywords = {constant, friendships, generation, networks, teens, Youth}, url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=M_aTqHdkt4UC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false}, author = {Clark, L. S.} } @article {514, title = {Cyberspace as Sacred Space. Communicating Religion on Computer Networks}, journal = {Journal of the American Academy of Religion}, volume = {64}, year = {1996}, keywords = {Communication, Computer, cyberspace, networks}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1465622?uid=3739536\&uid=2129\&uid=2\&uid=70\&uid=4\&uid=3739256\&sid=56265187143}, author = {O{\textquoteright}Leary, Stephen.D.} } @article {827, title = {Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Approaches to the Study of the Community Question }, journal = {Urban Affairs Review}, volume = {14}, year = {1979}, chapter = {363}, abstract = {We propose a network analytic approach to the community question in order to separate the study of communities from the study of neighborhoods. Three arguments about the community question-that "community" has been "lost," "saved," or "liberated"-are reviewed for their development, network depictions, imagery, policy implications, and current status. The lost argument contends that communal ties have become attenuated in industrial bureaucratic societies; the saved argument contends that neighborhood communities remain as important sources of sociability, support and mediation with formal institutions; the liberated argument maintains that while communal ties still flourish, they have dispersed beyond the neighborhood and are no longer clustered in solidary communities. Our review finds that both the saved and liberated arguments proposed viable network patterns under appropriate conditions, for social systems as well as individuals. }, keywords = {community, media, Neighborhoods, networks, social network}, url = {http://www.google.com/url?sa=t\&rct=j\&q=\&esrc=s\&source=web\&cd=1\&ved=0CDIQFjAA\&url=http\%3A\%2F\%2Fcourseweb.lis.illinois.edu\%2F~katewill\%2Ffall2009-lis590col\%2Fwellman\%2520leighton\%25201979\%2520networks\%2520neighborhoods.pdf\&ei=0_0CUfHWFqb22AW68YG4Bw\&usg=AFQj}, author = {Wellman, B. and Leighton, B} }