Here we have compiled a list of works that we have come across that may not be about social media, but have been referenced in works that do directly apply to using social media for social change.

 

Papers

 

Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.

 Bess, K. D., Fisher, A. T., Sonn, C. C., & Bishop, B. J. (2002). Psychological sense of community: Theory, research, and application. In A. T.

            Fisher, C. C. Sonn & B. J. Bishop (Eds.), Psychological Sense of Community:  Research, Applications and Implications. New York:

            Kluwer Academic/Plenun Publishers.

Burroughs, S. M., & Eby, L. T. (1998). Psychological sense of community at work:  A measurement system and explanatory framework. Journal

            of Community Psychology, 26, 509-532.

Chavis, D. M., & Pretty, G. H. (1999). Sense of community:  Advances in measurement and application. Journal of Community Psychology, 27(6), 635-642.

Chipuer, H. M., & Pretty, G. H. (1999). A review of the sense of community index:  Current uses, factor structure, reliability and further development. Journal of Community Psychology, 27, 643-658.

Clark, S. C. (2002). Employees' Sense of Community, Sense of Control, and Work/Family Conflict in Native American Organizations. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 61, 92-108.

García, I., Giuliani, F., & Wiesenfeld, E. (1999). Community and sense of community:  The case of an urban barrio in Caracas. Journal of Community Psychology, 27, 727-740.

Harris, J. (1999). The Idea of Community in the Study of Writing. In L. Ede (Ed.), On Writing Research:  The Braddock Essays 1975-1998 (pp. 260-271). Boston: Bedford.

Long, D. A., & Perkins, D. D. (2003). Confirmatory Factory Analysis of the Sense of Community Index  and Development of a Brief SCI. Journal of Community Psychology, 31(3), 279-296.

McMillan, D. W., & Chavis, D. M. (1986). Sense of community:  A definition and theory. Journal of Community Psychology, 14(6-23).

Obst, P. L., Smith, S., & Zinkieqicz, L. (2002). An exploration of sense of community, Part 3:  Dimensions and predcitors of psychological sense of community in geographical communities. Journal of Community Psychology, 30(1), 119-133.

Obst, P. L., & White, K. M. (2004). Revisiting the Sense of Community Index:  A Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Journal of Community Psychology, 32(6), 691-705.

Royal, M. A., & Rossi, R. J. (1999). Predictors of within-school differences in teachers' sense of community. Journal of educational research, 92, 259-267.

Sarason, S. B. (1974). The psychological sense of community: Prospects for a community psychology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Schuster, E. (1998). A community bound by words:  Reflections on a nursing home writing group. Journal of aging studies, 12(2), 137-148.

Sproull, L., & Keisler, S. (1991). Increasing Personal Connections. In L. Sproull & S. Keisler (Eds.), Connections:  New ways of working in the networked organization. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Tabachnik, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2001). Using multivariate statistics (4th ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Zaff, J., & Devlin, S. (1998). Sense of community in housing for the elderly. , 381-398.

 

References (Some may also be listed on the front page)-

Abramson, J. (1998). The Internet and Community. In The Emerging Internet (pp. 59-80). Queenstown, MD: Institute for Information Studies.

Benhabib, S. (1992). Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics. New York: Routledge.

Blogdex. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://blogdex.media.mit.edu

Bloggers unite to fight. (2003, 2 May). Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2992401.stm

Crowley, M. (2003, 7 April). World Wide Web: Once around the Blog, from http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Apr-07-Mon-2003/business/20919890.html

Davis, R. (1999). The web of politics: The Internet's impact on the American political system. New York: Oxford University Press.

Elin, L. (2003). The radicalization of Zeke Spier. In M. D. Ayers (Ed.), Cyberactivism. New York: Routledge.

Glaser, M. (2002). Weblogs credited for Lott brouhaha. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1040145065.php

Glaser, M. (2004, 9 January). Iranian journalist credits blogs for playing key role in his release from prison. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1073610866.php

Habermas, J. (1997). Institutions of the public sphere. In C. Newbold (Ed.), Approaches to Media: a Reader (pp. 235-244). London: Arnold.

Jesdanun, A. (2004, 23 January). Web Journals make media, activist impact. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7779449.htm

Kottke, J. (2003). Weblogs and power laws. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.kottke.org/03/02/weblogs-and-power-laws

Lenhart, A., Horrigan, J., Rainie, L., Allen, K., Boyce, A., Madden, M., et al. (2003, 16 April). The ever-shifting Internet population: A new look at Internet access and the digital divide. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Shifting_Net_Pop_Report.pdf

McChesney, R. W., & Nichols, J. (2002). Our media, not theirs : The democratic struggle against corporate media. New York: Seven Stories.

Mills, C. W. (1956). White Collar: The American middle classes. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ó Baoill, A. (in press). Conceptualizing the weblog: understanding what it is in order to imagine what it can be. Interfacings.

O'Hehir, A. (2003, 7 April). The Salon Interview: Bill Moyers. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/07/moyers/index.html

Park, D. (2003, 18 October). Bloggers and Warbloggers as public intellectuals: Charting the authoritative space of the weblog. Paper presented at the AoIR 4.0 - Broadening the Band, Toronto.

Phillips, P., Tomorrow, T., & Project Censored (U.S.). (2002). Censored 2003 : The top 25 censored stories. New York: Seven Stories.

Pilger, J. (1998). Hidden agendas. London: Vintage.

Rash, W. (1997). Politics on the nets: wiring the political process. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Rodríguez, A. (2000). Reinventing minority media for the 21st century. Paper presented at the Aspen Institute Forum on Diversity and the Media.

Schofield, J. (2003). Don't go to hell, from http://www.onlineblog.com/index.html#200231561

Schudson, M. (1995). The power of news. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Scott, B. (2002). A contemporary history of digital journalism.Unpublished manuscript.

Shirky, C. (2003, 10 February). Power laws, weblogs and inequality. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

Stoll, C. (1995). Silicon Snake Oil: second thoughts on the information highway. New York: Doubleday.

Thompson, B. (2003, 2 May). Gagging the bloggers. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2992587.stm

Volokh, E. (2003, 28 April). Promoting one's blog. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://volokh.blogspot.com/2003_04_27_volokh_archive.html#200202312

Williams, K. (2003). Research note: Across the United States, 85,000 to 144,000 public computing sites. First Monday.

Williams, R. (2003, 15 February). MOPI project update. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/2/15/155328/405

Zeldman, J. (2003, 23 April). Unsyndicate. Retrieved 23 January, 2004, from http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0403a.shtml#unsyndicate

 

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Baym, N. (1997). Interpreting soap operas and creating community: Inside an electronic fan culture. In S. Keisler (Ed.), Culture of the Internet. Manhaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bieber, M., Engelbart, D., Furuta, R., & Hiltz, S. R. (2002). Toward virtual community knowledge evolution. Journal of Management Information Systems, 18(4), 11-35.

Blanchard, A. (in press). The effects of dispersed virtual communities on face-to-face social capital. In M. Huysman & V. Wulf (Eds.), Social capital and information technology. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Blanchard, A., & Horan, T. (1998). Social capital and virtual communities. Social Science Computer Review,16, 293-307.

Blanchard, A., & Markus, M. L. (2003). The experienced "sense" of a virtual community: Characteristics and processes. The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems.

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Burroughs, S. M., & Eby, L. T. (1998). Psychological sense of community at work: A measurement system and explanatory framework. Journal of Community Psychology, 26, 509-532.

Chipuer, H. M., & Pretty, G. H. (1999). A review of the sense of community index: Current uses, factor structure, reliability and further development. Journal of Community Psychology, 27, 643-658.

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García, I., Giuliani, F., & Wiesenfeld, E. (1999). Community and sense of community: The case of an urban barrio in Caracas. Journal of Community Psychology, 27, 727-740.

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