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Social Network Analysis in an Age of Digital Information

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Synonyms

Analysis; Consumer; Digital; Linkages; Networks; Relationships; Social anthropology

Glossary

Consumer:

An individual or organization that uses a commodity or service

Digital data:

Digitally sourced and/or published statistics or items of information

Research:

Systematic inquiry or investigation

Social network:

Facilitates communication, provided by a network of related linkages

Definition

The term “social network analysis” (SNA) provides an increasingly overarching research context for scholars, as well as policy makers, industry, commercial organizations, and the public sector. It refers not only to an integrated set of theoretical concepts and analytic methods but intends to explain a whole set of relationships and their variations as these are defined by “a specific set of linkages” and their “additional property” (Mitchell 1969, p. 2).

Introduction

This chapter reports on the description and development of SNA in an age of digital information. The intention is to...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Advanced Research in Computing (iARC), University of Durham, Durham, UK

    Mariann Hardey

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. telecom-paristech, Paris, France

    Talel Abdessalem

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau, QC, Canada

    Rokia Missaoui

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Hardey, M. (2017). Social Network Analysis in an Age of Digital Information. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_403-1

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