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Papers by Devan Rosen

Paradigms and Phenomena

Virtual communities that allow many users to interact in a virtual world, often called multi-user... more Virtual communities that allow many users to interact in a virtual world, often called multi-user virtual worlds (MUVWs), allow users to explore and navigate the virtual world as well as interact with other users. The communicative interaction within these virtual worlds is often text-based using Internet relay chat (IRC) and related systems. IRC has posed a difficulty for researchers looking to evaluate the interaction by analyzing and interpreting the communication since data is stored in the form of chatlogs. The current chapter explicates methodological procedures for the measurement and visualization of chat-based communicative interaction in MUVWs as social networks. A case study on an educational MUVW, the SciCentr programs sponsored by Cornell University, is used to elaborate methods and related findings.

2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2011

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2011

New Media & Society, 2011

The current study investigates engagement activities in an online resource exchange community exp... more The current study investigates engagement activities in an online resource exchange community exploring elements such as sense of belonging, connectedness, and trust. CouchSurfing.com is an online cultural exchange community in which members from around the globe coordinate travel accommodations and organize gatherings with fellow members via a social media platform. Findings confirmed that members who have not met face-to-face with other members have a lower sense of belonging to the community than those who have. Increased attendance to gatherings was positively related to sense of belonging to the community, and hosting had a positive relationship with trust in the community. Additionally, CouchSurfers reported that they preferred to be contacted through personal e-mails rather then group e-mails, while those who reported an increased participation in gatherings found group e-mails to be useful.

International students are continually growing in number worldwide prompting researchers to look ... more International students are continually growing in number worldwide prompting researchers to look for ways to make these potentially life-changing study abroad experiences more fruitful. In many cases students who study abroad experience homesickness, discontentment, ...

International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 2001

Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2010

Social cognitive theory suggests a likely relationship between behavior mod-eled on increasingly ... more Social cognitive theory suggests a likely relationship between behavior mod-eled on increasingly popular reality television (RTV) and user behavior mod-eled on social networking sites (SNSs). This study surveyed young adults (ND 456) to determine the extent to which RTV consumption explained a range of user behavior in the context of social network sites. Results show a consistent relationship between RTV consumption and the length of time spent on these sites, the size of users ’ networks, the proportion of friends not actually met face to face, and photo sharing frequency while controlling for age and gender. In the now-classic work Life on the Screen, sociologist Turkle (1995) effectively captured the radical zeitgeist of the early public Internet: absent physical cues in the text-based medium, individuals free to construct and deconstruct identity as they saw fit. Gender, race, and ability only became a component of social exchange to the degree that individuals chose to introdu...

Research shows that people from different cultural backgrounds and gender roles behave and commun... more Research shows that people from different cultural backgrounds and gender roles behave and communicate in systematically different ways. The current research utilized a survey (N=452) of young adults to examine the occurrence of culturally- and gender-influenced differences in online behavior, offline networks, and satisfaction. Results show that participants who identify with more individualistic cultural backgrounds have larger networks of friends on social network sites (SNSs), have a greater proportion of these friends not actually met face-to-face, and share more photos online opposed to participants who identify with less individualistic cultural backgrounds. Social support network size was a significant predictor of satisfaction with life, while SNS network size was not. Findings suggest that participants who identify with more individualistic cultural backgrounds tend to self-promote and are better connected and more satisfied with their social lives. It seems offline networ...

The current study investigates engagement activities in an online resource exchange community to ... more The current study investigates engagement activities in an online resource exchange community to research elements such as sense of belonging, connectedness, and trust in a global online community. CouchSurfing.com is an online community where members coordinate travel ...

Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, 2014

Activities in online communities are often distributed across multiple media and sites. Additiona... more Activities in online communities are often distributed across multiple media and sites. Additionally, the granularity at which events are recorded may not match the analytic needs. Since communication is scattered across space, time, and media, and the data comes in a variety of formats, there is no single transcript to inspect and share, and the available data representations may not make interaction and its consequences apparent. We present research that explores a multi-modal multi-granular method of analyzing ...

Tie measurement is an analytic foundation of social network analysis, and has been most commonly ... more Tie measurement is an analytic foundation of social network analysis, and has been most commonly measured in regards to the strength of the tie. The strong tie-weak tie dichotomy is conceptually misleading, and the science of networks lacks a clear conceptualization of ties that allows for consistent operationalization of the concept. This conceptual gap has led researchers to measure ties in a contextually specific manner, often unique to their particular research design. This paper offers a reconceptualization of the ...

People interact in a variety of ways, and often choose what media to use based on the relationshi... more People interact in a variety of ways, and often choose what media to use based on the relationships they have with their interlocutors. Similarly, there are different ways through which people are associated in socio-technical networks or" online communities." This paper reports a study that characterizes how the associations between members of a socio-technical network-the Tapped In network of educational professionals-are distributed across various asynchronous media, and what clusters of associations suggest about community ...

Global communication (2 nd ed., pp. 157-180). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007

Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) allow many users to explore the environment and interact ... more Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) allow many users to explore the environment and interact with other users as they learn new content and share their knowledge with others. The semi-synchronous communicative interaction within these learning environments is typically text-based Internet relay chat (IRC). IRC data is stored in the form of chatlogs and can generate a large volume of data, posing a difficulty for researchers looking to evaluate learning in the interaction by analyzing and interpreting ...

Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, 2003

Currently a doctoral student at Cornell University in the Department of Communication, with a foc... more Currently a doctoral student at Cornell University in the Department of Communication, with a focus on Communication Technology and Networks. He received his BA at the University at Buffalo, Department of Communication, with a focus in Organizational and Intercultural Communication. He then worked in industry before returning to the University at Buffalo to receive his MA from the Department of Communicationm with a focus in Social Network Analysis and Organizational Communication. His research foci range from the self- ...