[Air-l] Searching for materials on "Cyber-friendship"

[Oren Golan]

Dear Abu Sadat Nurullah,



I have just completed my PhD on cyberfriendship among Israeli youth. Perhaps 
you can find something useful from these references:



Adams, G. R. 1998. "The Demise of Territorial Determinism: Online 
Friendship", in: Adams, R. G. & G. Allan (eds.). Placing Friendship in 
Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



Baym. N. K. 2000. Tune in Log on: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community. 
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.




Mesch, G. S. 2001. "Social Relationships and Internet Use Among Adolescents 
in Israel", Social Science Quarterly 82 (2): 329-339.



Mesch G. and I. Talmud. 2006. "Online Friendship Formation, Communication 
Channels, and Social Closeness". International Journal of Internet Sciences 
1 (1): 29-44.



Oliker, S. J. 1998. "The Modernization of Friendship: Individualism, 
Intimacy and Gender in the Nineteenth Century", in: Adams, R. G. & G. Allan. 
1998. (eds.), Placing Friendship in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University 
Press.



Parks, M. R. & F. Floyd. 1996. "Making Friends in Cyberspace", Journal of 
Communication 46 (1). Also available at: Online Journal of Computer mediated 
Communication 1 (4), See: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol1/issue4/parks.html.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heath Row" <kalel at well.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Searching for materials on "Cyber-friendship"


> I'd recommend Danah Boyd's "Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing
> Community into Being on Social Network Sites." Ran in First Monday not too
> long ago.
>
> Heath
>
> On 12/20/06, Nurullah <asnurullah at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm from a Malaysian university, preparing for my thesis (initially)
>> entitled 'Cyberfriendship: the patterns of virtual friendship on the
>> internet'. Therefore, I'm looking for materials/ literature related to 
>> this
>> topic/ theme.
>>
>> Please let me know if you have the source of the available materials/
>> literature/ researches that have been conducted in this area.
>>
>> Cheers !!!
>>
>>
>>           ***********************************************************
>> Abu Sadat Nurullah
>>   Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
>> International Islamic University Malaysia
>> Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
>>   Homepage: http://nurullah786.blogspot.com/
>>   Phone no: (+6)0192572423
>>
>>
>>
>>
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