In class on Tuesday (3/6), we briefly covered some of the foundational concepts of social networking. The main takeaway from this lecture was a handful of vocabulary terms. These terms are just a drop in the bucket of all the terms one could compile when discussing social networks and social network analysis.
- social network: a patterned set of relationships between two or more actors
- actor (n) an entity in a relationship
- social capital (n) the resources—such as ideas, information, money, trust—available in and through personal and business networks
- network tie (n) the connection or relationship between actors
- density (n) reflects how many people in a network are connected (usually directly) to each other
- network size (n) the number of nodes
- activity (n) how participative a node is
- influence (n) the potential to affect nodes
- social network analysis (n) the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, Web sites, and other information/knowledge processing entities
Some other terms related to this topic that I did not include in the lecture.
- centrality (n) the extent to which an actor is in the middle of the network
- control (n) how much authority a node has over the flow of information
- access (n) how easily a node can get resources necessary to be successful in the organization
- dyad (n) two actors and the relational tie between them
- triad (n) a subset of a social network composed of three actors and the possible ties between them
As well as a few kinds of networks:
- communication network: the informal structure of an organization as represented in ongoing patterns of interaction, either in general or with respect to a given issue.
- information network: shows who goes to whom for advice on work-related matters.
- social network: a patterned set of relationships between two or more actors
- actor (n) an entity in a relationship
- social capital (n) the resources—such as ideas, information, money, trust—available in and through personal and business networks
- network tie (n) the connection or relationship between actors
- density (n) reflects how many people in a network are connected (usually directly) to each other
- network size (n) the number of nodes
- activity (n) how participative a node is
- influence (n) the potential to affect nodes
- social network analysis (n) the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, Web sites, and other information/knowledge processing entities
Some other terms related to this topic that I did not include in the lecture.
- centrality (n) the extent to which an actor is in the middle of the network
- control (n) how much authority a node has over the flow of information
- access (n) how easily a node can get resources necessary to be successful in the organization
- dyad (n) two actors and the relational tie between them
- triad (n) a subset of a social network composed of three actors and the possible ties between them
As well as a few kinds of networks:
- communication network: the informal structure of an organization as represented in ongoing patterns of interaction, either in general or with respect to a given issue.
- information network: shows who goes to whom for advice on work-related matters.
- problem-solving network: indicates who goes to whom to engage in dialogue that helps people solve problems at work.
- knowledge network: captures who is aware of whose knowledge and skills, and an access network shows who has access to whose knowledge and expertise.
2 examples of a sociograms:
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