Daniel Cowen
@dncwn.bsky.social
Analytical Sociology PhD @ University of Groningen. Social identity, political discussions online, networks & cooperation 📚.
New Paper!
A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering!
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A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance
People become friends with one another primarily due to things they have in common, like shared demographic characteristics or shared interests. But o…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New Paper!
A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Debuting my BlueSky account to share my poster presentation at #IC2S2
A nice break from a regular conference presentation, I’ll be showing you about what turns a debate into an insult contest in online political discussions communities! Come past poster #16 on Wednesday (12:30-14:30) to have a chat
A nice break from a regular conference presentation, I’ll be showing you about what turns a debate into an insult contest in online political discussions communities! Come past poster #16 on Wednesday (12:30-14:30) to have a chat
July 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Debuting my BlueSky account to share my poster presentation at #IC2S2
A nice break from a regular conference presentation, I’ll be showing you about what turns a debate into an insult contest in online political discussions communities! Come past poster #16 on Wednesday (12:30-14:30) to have a chat
A nice break from a regular conference presentation, I’ll be showing you about what turns a debate into an insult contest in online political discussions communities! Come past poster #16 on Wednesday (12:30-14:30) to have a chat