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The Emotional Strength of Weak Ties: Reevaluating Social Support Online
2011
2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
While many theorists have argued that weak ties facilitate online social support, strong evidence within these communities clearly show that the distinction between weak ties and strong ties should be reexamined. After a short expose on tie strength and online social support, we give an example of how this research has operationalized weak ties only in terms of one of Granovetter's four basic components of tie strength: frequency of interaction. Furthermore, our analysis provides
doi:10.1109/hicss.2011.411
dblp:conf/hicss/WongS11
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