Summary
Contents
In this book, leading methodologists address the issue of how effectively to apply the latest developments in social network analysis to behavioural and social science disciplines. Topics examined include: ways to specify the network contents to be studied; how to select the method for representing network structures; how social network analysis has been used to study interorganizational relations via the resource dependence model; how to use a contact matrix for studying the spread of disease in epidemiology; and how cohesion and structural equivalence network theories relate to studying social influence. The book also offers some statistical models for social support networks.
Network Analysis and Computer-Mediated Communication Systems
Network Analysis and Computer-Mediated Communication Systems
Computer-Mediated Communication Systems: Constraints and Interaction
Networks, as a theoretical perspective, analytical construct, methodological approach, and pragmatic concern, have been important to a wide variety of communication research concerns, including small groups (Shaw, 1978), R&D collaboration (Allen, 1977), organizational communication (Tushman, 1977), organizational structure and relations (Aldrich & Whetten, 1981; Tichy, 1981), and numerous other topics such as diffusion of innovations and national development (Rogers & Kincaid, 1981). The breadth and depth of network-oriented research in the communication sciences is too vast to even outline in a single chapter. Rather, this chapter limits its focus to one specific, but new and growing area of interest: the adoption, uses, and implications of computer-mediated communication (CMC) ...