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Bulletin of Science, Technology Society / Ill See You on IM, Text, or Call You: A Social Network Approach of Adolescents Use of Communication Media Katrien Van Cleemput Bulletin of Science Technology Society 2010 30: 75 originally published online 14 April 2010 DOI: 10.1177/0座机电话号码0363143 The online version of this article can be found at: /content/30/2/75 Published by: On behalf of: National Association for Science, Technology Society Additional services and information for Bulletin of Science, Technology Society can be found at: Email Alerts: /cgi/alerts Subscriptions: /subscriptions Reprints: /journalsReprints.nav Permissions: /journalsPermissions.nav Citations: /content/30/2/75.refs.html Downloaded from at Loughborough Univ of Tech on December 15, 2010 Bulletin of Science, Technology Society 30 2 75–85 “I’ll See You on IM, Text, or ? 2010 SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: http://www. Call You”: A Social Network /journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0座机电话号码0363143 Approach of Adolescents’ Use of Communication Media Katrien Van Cleemput1 Abstract This study explores some possibilities of social network analysis for studying adolescents’ communication patterns. A full network analysis was conducted on third-grade high school students 15 year olds, 137 students in Belgium. The results pointed out that face-to-face communication was still the most prominent way for information to flow through the network. Interactions through communication media e-mail, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone, and landline phone , however, supplemented this flow of information in a substantive way. Communication media use patterns were characterized by multiplexity and could be placed on a unidimensional scale indicating a media hierarchy. Close friends strong ties used all communication media at their disposal to connect with each other; students who were just friends weak ties preferred face- to-face communication and social network sites. I