Organizing and Governance in Online Communities (UW COM597 Winter 2025)/Additional topics

Networks and embeddedness

• Simmel, George. 1964. “The Triad.” In The Sociology of Georg Simmel, edited by Kurt H. Wolff. Free Press. [Forthcoming]
• Granovetter, Mark S. 1973. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” The American Journal of Sociology 78 (6): 1360–80. [Available from UW libraries]
• Burt, Ronald 1991. “The Social Structure of Competition.” In Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. [Forthcoming]
• Uzzi, Brian. 1997. “Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness.” Administrative Science Quarterly 42 (1): 35–67. [Forthcoming]
• Podolny, Joel M., and Karen L. Page. 1998. “Network Forms of Organization.” Annual Review of Sociology 24:57–76. [Forthcoming]

• Faraj, Samer, Srinivas Kudaravalli, and Molly Wasko. 2015. “Leading Collaboration in Online Communities.” MIS Quarterly 39 (2): 393–412. [Available from UW libraries]
• Monge, Peter R., and Noshir S. Contractor. 2003. Theories of Communication Networks. Oxford University Press.
• Shen, Cuihua, Peter Monge, and Dmitri Williams. 2014. “Virtual Brokerage and Closure: Network Structure and Social Capital in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game.” Communication Research 41 (4): 459–80. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650212455197. [Available from UW libraries]

Optional:

• Simmel, Georg. 1964. Conflict & the Web of Group Affiliations. New York: Free Press. [Forthcoming]
• Burt, Ronald. 1991. Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. [Forthcoming]
• Granovetter, Mark. 1985. “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.” The American Journal of Sociology 91 (3): 481–510. [Forthcoming]