Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks Onnela et al 2006

This is a paper that, interestingly, positions itself as confirming Granvetter's Strength of Weak Ties from mroe than 30 years prior. The researchers got their hands on a big dataset, millions of cell phone calls.

in context, the role of this paper is showing that with technology, social network hypohteses are now falsfiable, opening up to science vast problem domains that used to be accesible only to armchair investigators.

Tor einforce this, they confirm some of granovettet's hyptohess about he structure of social netowkrs, while reject some of his speulations/conlcuions about dydnamics.