Uwe Matzat - Research Publications & Research Papers

• Matzat, U. (2010). "Reducing problems of sociability in online communities: Integrating online communication with offline interaction." in: American Behavioral Scientist, 53, 8: 1170-1193. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. , & Snijders, C. (2010). "Does the Online Collection of Ego-Centered Network Data reduce Data Quality? An Experimental Comparison." in: Social Networks, 32, 2: 105-111 . (pre-print)

• Rooks, G. & Matzat, U., (2010). "Cross-cultural differences in effects of social embeddedness on trust. A comparative study of German and Dutch business transactions." in: Social Science Journal, 47, 1: 45-68. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2009). "The Acceptance and Effectiveness of Social Control on the Internet" in: Cook, K., Snijders, C., Buskens, V. (eds): E-Trust: Forming Relationships in the Online World. Russell Sage Foundation. New York: 238-265. (abstract)

• Matzat, U. (2009). "Quality of Information in Academic Emailing Lists." in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60, 9: 1859-1870. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2009). "Disciplinary Differences in the Use of Internet Discussion Groups: Differential Communication Needs or Trust Problems?" in: Journal of Information Science, 35, 5: 613-631. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2009). "The Embeddedness of Academic Online Groups in Offline Social Networks: Reputation Gain as a Stimulus for Online Discussion Participation?" in: International Sociology, 24, 1: 63-92. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U., Snijders, C., & van der Horst, W. (2009) "Effects of different types of progress indicators on drop-out rates in web surveys." in: Social Psychology, 40, 1: 43-52. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2009). "A Theory of Relational Signals in Online Groups." in: New Media & Society, 11, 3: 375-394. (pre-print)

• Utz, S., Matzat, U., & Snijders, C. (2009). "Online Reputation Systems: The Effects of Feedback Comments and Reactions on Building and Rebuilding Trust in Online Auctions." in: International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 13, 3: 95-118. (pre-print)

• Welker, M., & Matzat, U. (2008). "Online-Forschung: Entwicklungslinien, Defizite und Potentiale." (Internet Research: Developments, problems, and potential.) in: Jackob, N., Schoen, H., & Zerback, T. (eds): Sozialforschung im Internet. Methodologie und Praxis der Online-Befragung. VS Verlag. Wiesbaden: 33-48. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. & Snijders., C. (2007)." The Online Measurement of Ego Centered Online Social Networks." in: Welker, M. (ed.): "Online Forschung: Grundlagen und Fallstudien." Neue Schriften zur Onlineforschung, Band 1. Köln/Leipzig: 272-291. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U., Faulbaum, F. (2006). "Methodological progress and substantial insights in the field of internet research." in: International Journal of Internet Science, 1-1: 4-5.

• Matzat, U. (2006). "Knowledge Management in a Virtual Organization: Are embedded online communities of practice more successful than exclusively virtual ones?" Report for the Dutch Science Foundation/NWO within the Research Program Society and the Electronic Highway (NWO-MES), 59 pages, NWO project number 014-43-618. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2005). " Die Einbettung der Online-Interaktion in soziale Netzwerke der Offline-Welt: Möglichkeiten der sozialen Gestaltung von Online-Gruppen" (The Embeddedness of Online Interaction in Social Networks of the Offline World: Opportunities for the Social Design of Online Groups.) in: Jäckel, Michael; Mai, Manfred (Hg.): Online-Vergesellschaftung? Mediensoziologische Perspektiven auf neue Kommunikationstechnologien. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden: 175-199. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2005). " Kennisdeling in Online Groepen: de Sociale Inbedding van Online Interactie in Offline Relaties" (Knowledge Sharing in Online Groups: The Social Embeddedness of Online Interaction in Offline Relations). in: De Haan, Jos & Van der Laan, Lambert: Jaarboek ICT en Samenleving 2005. Kennis in Netwerken. Boom, Amsterdam: 97-111. (pre-print)

• Matzat U. (2004). "Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Transfer of Information or Creation of Social Contacts?" in: Social Networks, 26, 3: 221-255. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2004). "The Social Embeddedness of Academic Online Groups as a Norm Generating Structure: A Test of the Coleman Model on Norm Emergence" in: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 10, 3: 205-226. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2004). "Cooperation and Community on the Internet: Past Issues and Present Perspectives for theoretical-empirical Internet Research" in: Analyse & Kritik, 26, 1: 63-90. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2003). Soziale Netzwerke und die Entstehung von Normen in akademischen Online-Gruppen." (Social Networks and the Emergence of Norms in Academic Online Groups). in: Entstaatlichung und soziale Sicherheit. Verhandlungen des 31. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Leipzig 2002. (Hg.) Allmendinger, J., CD-ROM, Opladen: Leske + Budrich. (pre-print)

• Matzat, U. (2003). "Proefschrift bespreking: Social Networks and cooperation in electronic communities." in: Opleiding & Ontwikkeling 3 /2003: 36-38. [book review]

• Matzat U. (2002). Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: What Kinds of Benefits for Whom? in: Online-Social Sciences, ed. Batinic B, Reips UD, Bosnjak M,. Seattle-Toronto-Bern-Goettingen: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers Inc.: 385-404. (pre-print)

• Matzat U. (2001). Social Networks and Cooperation in Electronic Communities. A theoretical-empirical Analysis of Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups. Amsterdam: Thela Publisher. (ISBN 90-367-1541-5).

• Matzat, U. (2001). Social Aspects of Online Community Design. Recommendations for Structuring a Professional Academic Community on the Internet. Report of a Research Project commissioned by ICT-Noord-Nederland. Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) / University of Groningen.

• Matzat, U.,& De Vos, H. (2000). Online-Communities: Which Conditions make them successful? Report of a Research Project commissioned by KPN Research. Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) / University of Groningen. 95 pp.

• Koester J., & Matzat U. (1997). Determianten der Studiendauer: Differenzen zwischen Studierenden verschiedener Fachbereiche? Ein Zwei-Gruppen-Test (Determinants of the Study Length. Differences between Students of distinguished Disciplines? A Test of two Groups), Duisburger Beitraege zur soziologischen Forschung, No. 4/1997, ISSN0949-8516.

• Matzat, U. (1996). Sozialer Kontext und abweichendes Verhalten. Empirische Tests soziologischer Theorien der Wirkungsweisen sozialer Kontexte mit Hilfe mehrebenenanalytischer Modelle (Social Context and Delinquent Behavior. Empirical Tests of Sociological Theories of Social Context Effects with the Help of Multilevel-Models). Diploma-Thesis (in German) at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany. (honored with a prize for excellent performance of the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany).