Reflection on research methodologies for ubicomp in developing contexts
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Familiar strangers detection in online social networks
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
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Previous research in Kyrgyzstan has demonstrated the importance of close social networks as avenues for gathering and sharing information, assistance and goods in the country. However, the relationship between technology use and social network use has not been investigated; understanding this relationship is important when considering the design of technology applications that support existing social networks. Contrary to Robert Putnam’s hypothesis that technologies have an "individualizing" force on populations, we have found that social network patterns do not appear to be negatively associated with higher technology use. In fact, the higher the level of technology use, the more face-to-face social networks were used for multiple types of information seeking.