[Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups

[Lisbeth Klastrup]

Dear Ruth and list,
I've previously (2011) published an article on affective public Facebook groups, which sadly is in Danish only. 
http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/journalistica/article/view/5452

This article included the analysis of a R.I.P group and Im also continuing work in this area now, focusing on pages though, some initial findings presented at IR 14.  Im happy to share my slides from this event with anyone interested.

For the 2011 article, I did a short review of the academic work on Facebook groups, I could find then (2011). Most were on political groups, but especially Lampinen's findings seem to be more broadly applicable, and Kuchin and Kitchener focus on discourse. Apart from the articles already posted by others:

Lampinen, A., Tamminen S. and Oulasvirta, A. (2009). "All My People Right Here, Right Now: management of group co-presence on a social networking site. I Proceedings of GROUP '09. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 281-290.

Kuchin, Mattew og Kitchener, Kevin (2009). Getting political on social network sites: Exploring online political discourse on Facebook. I First Monday, Vol. 14, No. 11. Publiceret 2. september 2009. Tilgængelig på: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2645. Sidst tilgået 11. august 2011.

Feezell, J., Conroy, M., Guerrero M. (2009). "Facebook is ... Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation". APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1451456.

Marichal, José (2010). Political Facebook Groups: Micro-Activism and the Digital Front Stage. Paper præsenteret ved Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment-konferencen, Oxford Internet Institute, 16. - 17. september 2010. Tilgængelig på: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2010/system/files/IPP2010_Marichal_Paper.pdf

Park, Namsu, Kee, Kerk, F., and Valenzuela, Sebastian. (2009). "Being immersed in social networking environment: Facebook Groups, uses and gratifications, and social outcomes." CyberPsychology & Behavior, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 729-733.


Best
Lisbeth Klastrup


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Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups

Dear AoIR list members,

I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook accounts/wall interactions.

Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social science perspective too.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Ruth

Dr Ruth Page
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