Abstract Research on social networks of immigrants and their descendants usually starts from the distinction between ‘ethnic’ ties to members population without migration background. In studies are repeatedly associated with ‘strong ties’, whereas ‘weak ties’ – that found be essential for access jobs in wider society contacts ‘majority population’. Building existing criticism this narrowing dic...

Social networks often provide only a binary perspective on social ties: two individuals are either connected or not. While sometimes external information can be used to infer the strength of social ties, access to such information may be restricted or impractical. Sintos and Tsaparas (KDD 2014) first suggested to infer the strength of social ties from the topology of the network alone, by lever...

This study examines how the significance of weak ties varies by contact initiation and purposes of contact in everyday life. Based on data from 55 contact diaries, we analyze the extent to which diary keepers judge each of 102,825 specific contacts as beneficial after they occur, by how well they knew the target person beforehand. Our hypothesis testing and bootstrap resampling show that when a...

In this work, we challenge the assumption that weak ties play uniquely important social support roles on network sites, particularly regarding informational support. To overcome methodological limitations of earlier research, present a mixed-methods study. Forty-one participants were interviewed and asked to identify five weak, medium, strong each report perceived actually received (emotional, ...

On Facebook, users are exposed to posts from both strong and weak ties. Even though several studies have examined the emotional consequences of using Facebook, less attention has been paid to the role of tie strength. This paper aims to explore the emotional outcomes of reading a post on Facebook and examine the role of tie strength in predicting happiness and envy. Two studies - one correlatio...