eies: The Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES)

In anespinosa/classicnets: classicnets: Classic Data of Social Networks

The Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES)

Description

The data were collected by Freeman and Freeman (1980). This is a network of researchers who participated in an early study on the effects of electronic information exchange, a precursor of email communication.

Usage

data(eies)

Format

A 32 X 32 matrix.

time1

January 1978. 0 = do not know the other, 1 = heard about the other, did not meet him/her, 2 = have met the other, 3 = friend, 4 = close personal friend.

time2

September 1978. 0 = do not know the other, 1 = heard about the other, did not meet him/her, 2 = have met the other, 3 = friend, 4 = close personal friend.

messages

Number of messages sent among the researchers that used the electronic communication tool

label

Name of the social network researchers.

citations

Number of citations at the beginning of the study extracted from the Social Science Index

discipline

Data extracted from a questionnaire, in which 1 = sociology, 2 = anthropology, 3 = mathematics/statistics, 4 = psychology/communication.

Source

Freeman, S.C., Freeman, L.C. (1979). The networkers network: A study of the impact of a new communications medium on sociometric structure. Social Science Research Reports 46. University of California, Irvine, CA.

Freeman, L.C., and Freeman, S.C. (1980). A semi-visible college: Structural effects on a social networks group. In Henderson, M.M., and McNaughton, M.J. (eds.) Electronic Communication: Technology and Impacts Boulder (pp. 77-85), CO: Westview Press

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