Using Cell Phones to Understand Social Networks of Young Men

使用手机了解年轻人的社交网络

• 批准号: 8469456
• 负责人: Trace S Kershaw
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: YALE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8469456
• 关键词: Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological; Cellular Phone; Characteristics; Cities; Communication; Computer software; Data; Development; Drug usage; Education and Outreach; Enrollment; Epidemiology; Family; Fostering; Foundations; Frequencies; Friends; Friendships; Health; Health behavior; Heterosexuals; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Location; Manufactured basketball; Marijuana; Measures; Methods; Monitor; Nature; Outcome; Participant; Pattern; Peer Group; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Role; Sampling; Series; Social Network; System; Technology; Telephone; Text; Time; Youth; base; behavior influence; behavior measurement; condoms; court; design; drug testing; emerging adult; high risk; indexing; innovation; member; men; novel; peer; sex risk; social; therapy development; young man

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study explores novel methods to assess how individuals interact within social networks. Communication technologies such as cell phones have made it easier to maintain and develop network ties. The nature of how information, norms, and influence flow through networks using these technologies and how it might relate to network characteristics and risk within networks is not well known. This proposal explores novel and innovative methods of assessing interactions within social networks and their impact on risk behavior (e.g., sexual risk, substance use) among emerging adult men. We will assess the feasibility of using data from cell phones to obtain behavioral network data about interactions and communication between members of social networks. Using an existing computer software program that interfaces with users' cell phones, we will collect two types of data: (1) cell phone call and text message activity to ascertain communication frequency and patterns within networks, and (2) global positioning system (GPS) locations from cell phones to ascertain geographical proximity and frequency of face to face interactions between network members. We will enroll 120 emerging adult heterosexual men ages 18-25 from three social networks. Trained outreach workers will recruit three index participants using a venue-based sampling design targeting locations (e.g., bars, parks/basketball courts, barber shops) in the three highest risk areas (e.g., high STD rates, high poverty) within the target city. Close friends of the index will be recruited in the study. Subsequent waves of recruitment will enroll network members of participants from the previous wave to form three sociocentric networks. All participants will complete a thorough social network assessment where they provide a complete roster of their friendship network. In addition, participants will report their overall levels of sexual risk behavor (including condom use, concurrency, number of partners) and substance use (including alcohol, marijuana, and hard drug use) and we will monitor their cell phone activity, text messaging activity, and GPS locations for 6 months. This study will assess the feasibility and utility of usig cell phone data to obtain behavioral information about networks.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究探索了评估个人如何在社交网络中互动的新方法。手机等通信技术使维护和发展网络联系变得更加容易。信息、规范和影响如何通过使用这些技术的网络流动以及它与网络特征和网络内风险的关系尚不清楚。该提案探讨了评估社交网络内互动及其对新兴成年男性风险行为（例如性风险、物质使用）的影响的新颖和创新方法。我们将评估使用手机数据获取有关社交网络成员之间交互和通信的行为网络数据的可行性。使用与用户手机接口的现有计算机软件程序，我们将收集两种类型的数据：(1) 手机通话和短信活动，以确定网络内的通信频率和模式，以及 (2) 全球定位系统 (GPS) ）通过手机获取位置信息，以确定网络成员之间的地理接近度和面对面互动的频率。我们将从三个社交网络招募 120 名 18-25 岁的新兴成年异性恋男性。经过培训的外展工作人员将使用基于场地的抽样设计，针对排名最高的三个地点（例如酒吧、公园/篮球场、理发店）招募三名指数参与者。 目标城市内的风险地区（例如性病高发率、贫困率高）。该研究将招募该指数的亲密朋友。后续的招募浪潮将招募上一波参与者的网络成员，形成三个以社会为中心的网络。所有参与者都将完成彻底的社交网络评估，并提供完整的友谊网络名册。此外，参与者将报告他们的性风险行为（包括安全套使用、同时性、伴侣数量）和物质使用（包括酒精、大麻和烈性药物使用）的总体水平，我们将监控他们的手机活动、短信活动，以及 6 个月的 GPS 位置。本研究将评估使用手机数据获取网络行为信息的可行性和实用性。

项目成果

"R U Mad?": Computerized text analysis of affect in social media relates to stress and substance use among ethnic minority emerging adult males.

“R U Mad？”：对社交媒体影响的计算机化文本分析与少数族裔新兴成年男性的压力和物质使用有关。

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Desrosiers, Alethea;Vine, Vera;Kershaw, Trace
• 通讯作者: Kershaw, Trace

Social media photos of substance use and their relationship to attitudes and behaviors among ethnic and racial minority emerging adult men living in low-income areas.

生活在低收入地区的少数族裔和种族新兴成年男性的药物使用及其与态度和行为的关系的社交媒体照片。

• 发表时间: 2019
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Lauckner, Carolyn;Desrosiers, Alethea;Muilenburg, Jessica;Killanin, Abraham;Genter, Elizabeth;Kershaw, Trace
• 通讯作者: Kershaw, Trace