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Simply put.
25Jan2005 Filed under: networks Author: Marcia Hansenin CCR 711, Network(ed) Rhetorics.
I’m just rolling terms around in my mind.
If people + communication = network, does people + communication + common cultural activity = social network?
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Yep,
Derek
January 26th, 2005 at 5:33 am
Don’t know if this will be helpful at all, but here’s how I think of it:
links + nodes = network (so this can apply to lots of things, including stuff where humans are out of the loop, such as river networks or food webs); factor in (exponentially?) human relationships and discourse/knowledge formation to make it a social network
This makes me want to look into what makes a network “social.” Could we have a social network that didn’t involve people (would, for example, a herd of elephants, with all their sensitivities to each other, fit as a social network?).
Marcia
January 27th, 2005 at 8:04 am
Right, that’s where I was going. What makes a network social?
For people who have more difficulty forming bonds with others, do they have more or less network or sociality?
Both, I think. Is it the strength of the links, or rather, the capacity to make and keep links/connections that which holds a network together and that which makes a network social and that which leads to knowledge formation?
Or, maybe I’m just going around in circles and need more coffee.