INSNA home page @insna.org Social computation and creativity » Blog Archive » Growth and de The growth of online computer-mediated social networks and the shrinking of real-world social networks nearly coincide in time. Both are examples of social networks, but nevertheless they are quite independent. We can easily import our real-life friendships into online social networks, but the opposite direction—exporting online friendships into real-life friendships—is much harder. “Americans’ circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled, according to a new study by sociologists at The University of Arizona and Duke University” (source). An interesting question is whether online services are causing decay of real-life social networks or just filling the emptiness caused by extinction of their real-life counterparts due to other reasons.
Social Networks Biblio 2005 Cummings The Future of Social Networks - Communication As regular readers of GigaOM know, I have written often about social networks as a platform for self-expression, and how such new media shifts the balance of control for production and distribution of content between corporations and consumers. Along with this, I’ve written about the many strategic implications of such shifts, particularly for traditional media companies, and the business model challenges that face any player attempting to monetize social media. There is another critical aspect of social networking, however, that I have not yet addressed… and it’s one that will serve as the anchor component for social networks as they begin to enter their next stage of evolutionary development. One of MySpace’s greatest innovations was something ridiculously simple… the “wall”. But it is equally important to realize that communications in and of itself, especially if it’s a new form of communications like the wall, does not necessarily act as the primary draw for new users.
NodeXL The simplest, easiest way to get insights into networks, try the free and open NodeXL! Network Overview Discovery and Exploration for Excel 2007/2010/2013 NodeXL provides support for social network analysis in the context of a spreadsheet. See: NodeXL is a project from the Social Media Research Foundation and is a collaboration among: NodeXL is the free and open add-in for Excel that supports network overview, discovery and exploration. NodeXL requires Office 2007, 2010 or 2013. A video tutorial for NodeXL can be found at: A book Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world is available from Morgan-Kaufmann: Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World Supporting documentation can be found at Data sets and other teaching materials are available at Social Media Research Related Publications
Social Networks Analysis We hear the words “Social Network” a great deal these days. It's an Internet phenomenon that is bearing fruit, both by virtue of launching successful ideas and by providing much appreciated services to Internet users. Craig Newmark set up a mailing list (and later a web site) to list the artistic venues and events in the San Francisco area. Craig's list currently employs just over 20 people who manage the web site, although the web site itself is vast. Wikipedia: arguably the best encyclopedia in the world, with just under 1.5 million user-contributed articles. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but notice how varied it is. The investment required to leverage or create a social network can be very low even for an organization with few resources—and the value produced can be very high. Posted: 3rd December 2006 | By amareldo : You forgot the COOL new huge social network around: Yahoo! The messages above were all contributed by IT-Director.com readers.
…My heart’s in Accra DAYLO - Local skills, services, trades, and talents. An Interactive Introduction to Network Analysis and Representation Networks and network analysis has grown more prominent in both humanities scholarship and public discourse. In this context, networks--also known as graphs or node-link diagrams--are "a set of vertices (also called points or nodes) which represent the entities of research interest, and a set of lines (or ties) between these vertices which represent their relationships." [1] This interactive application is designed to provide an overview of various network analysis principles used for analysis and representation. Each network type is listed in the Models section, and can be paired with an analysis or representation method by simply clicking on a network type to load a new network, and then clicking on an analysis or visualization method. Networks are represented using traditional force-directed techniques or by plotting along the xy axis based on numerical attributes of the nodes (longitude and latitude in the case of nodes that represent geographic entities). Code
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