Resources
The Facebook Project website aims to provide a variety of audiences resources related to Facebook and other Social-Networking Services. Just about everything you need to help you write a paper or conduct research. Right now we offer the following assets:
Facebook Project Wikis
We have several collaborative wikis underway:
Reference Pool
A somewhat collected and coherrent listing of resources related to Facebook - from formal publications in journals to presentations to websites and blogs.
Feature Index
A listing, history, and user interpretations of the various features and functions of Facebook.com.
Quick Facts about Facebook
This page includes a gathering of remarkable facts and information you might have never known about Facebook.com.
Interview Excerpts
Excerpts from Jeff Ginger's Facebook Project interview series on the role of Facebook in everyday undergraduate student life. They are organized by both topic and question and link back to the original transcriptions. These may be helpful as a teaching tool for instructors who'd like to provide students with an exercise based on sevearl already completed interviews on a variety of topics.
The Facebook Project @ UIUC - Open-coded Transcription Excerpts
Datasets
Jeff Ginger has decided to release most of his survey data and interview transcriptions for free to the public. Please refer to the documentation before you take a look at the data or interviews.
The Facebook Project @ UIUC - Data Set and Interview Documentation
Guides
Guides for use of Facebook (as a tool or information) by educators, librarians, and researchers.
Project Blog
A blog for mostly internal use related to planning and announcements.
Several of the project contributors also have their own blogs that might also be of assistance:
WebnographY by Jenny Ryan
Infodoodads by Laurie Bridges (and several others)
Eric Gilbert's home page is basically a blog
Related to Facebook
We are still gathering together related groups and researchers and hope to be able to expand this section in the coming months. For now you can see what some of the most prominent researchers are up to. This section also includes a small number of other Facebook-related links.
Related researchers and links
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