Studies of social networks have often taken the existence of a social tie as a proxy for the transmission of information. However, other studies of social networks in the labor market propose that the likelihood of information transmission might depend on strength of the tie; and that tie strength is a potentially important source of the tie's value. After all, even if job seekers have social t...

Scholars around the world have studied electronic word of mouth (eWOM) heavily in past decade. However, despite extensive knowledge effect eWOM on consumer behavior, there is still a lack understanding how source shapes those behaviors. There are many sources eWOM, influence which may different outcomes when it comes to consumers’ purchase intentions. Moreover, most studies measured social tie ...

A tie is a link between two persons in a social network. Here, we analyze tie strength in temporal co-authorship social networks by measuring ties persistence and transformation over time. Surprisingly, most ties tend to perish over time. Also, weak and random ties are more present in real co-authorship networks than bridges and strong ones.

This paper presents a perspective on the impact and use of new media that focuses on the strength of the interpersonal tie connecting communicators. Research shows that more strongly tied pairs communicate more frequently, maintain more and different kinds of relations, and use more media to communicate. It is argued that where ties are strong, communicators adapt their use of media and expand ...

Internet, as a new channel of WOM, enables consumers to get multiply WOM messages. However, there is a very real consumer situation that consumers may receive opposite messages (positive-negative) from the same sources. According to tie strength, this paper divides e-WOM sources into strong tie sources and weak tie sources, examining how e-WOM sources moderate the influence of e-WOM presentatio...

This study examined the relationship between the number of communication technologies used for social interactions (i.e., multimodal connectedness) and well-being across the lifespan. Consistent with the assumptions of media multiplexity, multimodal connectedness and frequency of strong-tie communication enhancedwell-being, but only for older-age cohorts (35–54 and 55–70+). For young adults (18...

As Foner (1999) explained, “Kinship ties are an effective way to cope with uncertainty and economic scarcity.” Granovetter (1973) defined the “strength” of an interpersonal tie as being a function of the “amount of time, the emotional intensity, the intimacy (mutual confiding), and the reciprocal services which characterize the tie.” Individuals build and cultivate both strong and weak interper...

This paper presents a perspective on the impact and use of new media that focuses on the strength of the interpersonal tie connecting communicators. Research shows that more strongly tied pairs communicate more frequently, maintain more and different kinds of relations, and use more media to communicate. It is argued that where ties are strong, communicators adapt their use of media and expand ...

We present magnetoresistivity measurements on AICuFe quasi crystalline thin films from which the temperature dependence of the inelastic scattering time (Tie) has been deduced down to 200 mK in the low field limit. We show that Tie presents a weak temperature dependence below 4 K (1/ Tie T . 87 ) which is in close agreement with the theory of Isawa predicting a crossover from a T 3 / 2 to a T r...