LIS450 SN: Social Networks and Information
© C. Haythornthwaite, 2000
http://classweb.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/lis450sn.html
Instructor: Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@classweb.lis.uiuc.edu), Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC, Room 123, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820, Phone: (217) 244-7453. Click here to see about my research interests.
Class: Spring 2000: Monday 1-4pm, Room 113 Speech and Hearing
This course is a graduate seminar in Social Networks and Information offered by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The course explores the use and application of the social network approach to the study of information processes. The social network approach considers the interactions that occur between classweb as the building blocks that determine social behavior. It is not an individual's behavior, but rather their behavior with others that is the important unit of analysis. Thus, to understand how classweb gain access to and distribute information, it is necessary to examine the types of interactions they engage in with others. The interactions show us patterns, and the patterns reveal how social groups organize themselves to accomplish certain goals.
Other Sites to Explore
International Network for Social Network Analysis: see this site for more on journals and analysis software
International Sunbelt Social Network Conference: see here for current research
Course
The course is a non-mathematical introduction to the social network perspective and its potential for exploring social phenomena.
Topics include:
Objectives
While the course will focus on issues relating to information (broadly defined), all students will gain familiarity with basic concepts of social network analysis and those from other areas of inquiry will gain an understanding of the social network perspective that can be applied to problems in their own discipline.
Texts
Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
Wellman, B. & Berkowitz, S.D. (Eds.) (1997). Social Structures: A Network Approach. (updated edition) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Recommended:
Nohria, N. & Eccles, R.G. (Eds.) (1992). Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action (pp. 216-239). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Stohl, C. (1995). Organizational Communication: Connectedness in Action. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Wasserman, S. & Galaskiewicz, J. (Eds.) (1994). Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Evaluation
Class Participation (20%)
Reading and participating in class in an essential part of this seminar. Students are required to come to class prepared to discuss each weeks readings.
Glossary of Social Network Terms (15%)
Over the semester each class member will build a glossary of terms. Terms will be set by the instructor each week based on the week's readings. Definitions will be brought to class each week and examined and refined in class.
The Social Network Approach and Your Own Interests (15%)
This short assignment (5 pages; 1000 words) describes how you could apply a social network approach to a problem of your own choosing. The assignment should give a description of the problem and how a social network approach could be used to illuminate some aspect of the problem, provide a set of social network questions you might ask to elicit the information you need for this problem, and suggest types of social network constructs that might be explored to examine this data and this problem.
Literature Review (40%)
Again, pursuing an area of your own interest, review the social network literature pertaining to the problem. This can be an extended version of the short assignment or it can concentrate on reviewing the literature.
Class Presentation (10%)
In the last weeks of class students will give an 15 minute in-class presentation on how to apply social network analysis to their own interests (e.g., a presentation based on the short assignment) or on the area they are reviewing (e.g., based on the literature review).
Course Outline
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January 24 |
Week 1: Overview of course |
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January 31 |
Week 2: Introduction to SNA concepts |
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February 7 |
Week 3: Social Network Building Blocks: Relations and Ties |
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February 14 |
Week 4: Status, Centrality, Equivalence |
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February 21 |
Week 5: Social Support |
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February 28 |
Week 6: Community |
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March 6 |
Week 7: Issues in the Exchange of Information, Part I |
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March 13 |
March Break |
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March 20 |
Week 8: Issues in the Exchange of Information, Part II |
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March 27 |
Week 9: Application of SNA to the Virtual World |
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April 3 |
Week 10: Influence of Technology on Information Networks |
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April 10 |
Week 11: Diffusion of Innovations |
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April 17 |
Week 12: Social Networks of Information Exchange in Science |
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April 24 |
Week 13: Complementary Theories, New Approaches |
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May 1 |
Week 14: Student Presentations |
Readings
In general, each week we will explore one aspect of social network analysis and there will be approximately 4 readings on a topic that we will discuss in class. Students will take turns being responsible for summarizing readings.
Further Readings: some further readings are given for most weeks. These are not all the readings on the topic, but are there as a starting place if you want to explore the topic further.
Week 1: Overview of Course
This week we will introduce the course and social network analysis. I will talk a bit about my own research. This paper, which we will look at later in Week 7, can give you an introduction to the 'information' focus of the course.
Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Social network analysis: An approach and technique for the study of information exchange. Library and Information Science Research, 18, 323-342.
Week 2: Introduction
Readings
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Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1. |
SNA in the social and behavioural sciences |
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Wellman, B. (1997). Structural analysis: From method and metaphor to theory and substance. In B. Wellman & S.D. Berkowitz (Eds.), Social Structures: A Network Approach (pp. 19-61). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. |
introduction to structural analysis |
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Monge, P.R. (1987). The network level of analysis. In C.R. Berger & S.H. Chaffee, Handbook of Communication Science (pp. 239-270). Newbury Park, NJ: Sage. |
general explanation of SNA in the context of communication |
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Bates, F.L., & Peacock, W.G. (1989). Conceptualizing social structure: The misuse of classification in structural modelling. American Sociological Review, 54, 565-577. |
why relational approaches matter |
Further reading
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Mizruchi, Mark S. (1994). Social network analysis: recent achievements and current controversies. Acta Sociologica, 37(4), 329-43. |
recent evaluation of SNA and update |
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Rice, R.E., & Richards, W.D. Jr., (1985). An overview of network analysis methods and programs. In B. Dervin, & M.J. Voigt (Eds.), Progress in Communication Sciences, Vol. VI (pp. 105-166). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation. |
general overview of SNA methods and programs |
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Berkowitz, Afterword in Wellman & Berkowitz |
Week 3: Social Network Building Blocks: Ties and Relations
Readings
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Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2 |
network data |
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Granovetter, Mark S. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78, 1360-1380. |
classic paper on weak ties |
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Granovetter, M.S. (1982). The strength of weak ties: A network theory revisited. In P.V. Marsden and N. Lin (eds.) Social Structure and Network Analysis, pp. 105-30. Beverly Hills |
weak ties revisited |
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Marsden, Peter V. & Campbell, Karen E. (1984). Measuring tie strength. Social Forces, 63, 482-501. |
ties, method |
Further reading
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Howell, Nancy. (1997). Understanding simple social structure: Kinship units and ties. In B. Wellman & S.D. Berkowitz, Social structures: A network approach (pp. 62-82). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. |
ties, kin |
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Friedkin, Noah E. A Guttman scale for the strength of an interpersonal tie. Social Networks. Vol 12(3), Sep 1990, 239-252. |
ties, strength, multiplexity |
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Krackhardt, D. (1992). The strength of strong ties: The importance of philos in organizations. In In N. Nohria & R.G. Eccles (Eds.), Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action (pp. 216-239). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. |
strong ties, orgs |
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Lawler, Edward J. Yoon, Jeongkoo. Network structure and emotion in exchange relations. American Sociological Review. v. 63 no6, Dec. 1998, p. 871-94. |
emotion in ties |
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Marsden, Peter V. (1990). Network data and measurement. Annual Review of Sociology, 16, 435-463. |
general, method |
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Week 4: Status and Social Mobility; Centrality; Equivalence
Readings
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Lin, N. (1999). Social networks and status attainment. Annual Review of Sociology, 25, 467-487. Available online at http://soc.AnnualReviews.org/cgi/content/full/25/1/467 |
status in social networks, social mobility (review) |
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Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 4 & 5. |
graph properties, walks trails, paths, connectivity cutpoints; centrality and prestige |
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Gladwell, M. (Jan 11, 1999). Six degrees of Lois Weinberg. The New Yorker, 52-63. |
fun piece on a network star in action |
Further reading on centrality
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Freeman, Linton C. (1978-79). Centrality in social networks: Conceptual clarification. Social Networks 1, 215-239. |
centrality |
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Stevenson, Karen & Zelen, Marvin (1989). Rethinking centrality: Methods and examples. Social Networks, 11, 1-37. |
information centrality |
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Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 9. |
structural equivalence |
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Michaelson, Alaina & Contractor, Noshir S. (1992) Structural position and perceived similarity. Social Psychology Quarterly, 55, 300-10. |
equivalence(s), comparison with perception |
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Further reading on social mobility
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Wegener, B. (1991). Job mobility and social ties: Social resources, prior job, and status attainment. American Sociological Review, 56, 60-71. |
social mobility |
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Lin, Nan & Bian, Yanjie (1991). Getting ahead in urban china. American Journal of Sociology, 97(3), 657-688. |
social mobility, status |
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Bridges, W.P. & Villemez, W.J. (1986). Informal hiring and income in the labour market. American Sociological Review, 51, 574-82. |
ties, jobs |
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Skvoretz, John. Fararo, Thomas J. Status and participation in task groups: a dynamic network model. American Journal of Sociology. v. 101, Mar. 1996, p. 1366-414. |
expectation states theory and sna; how status order emerges in groups |
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Brajkovich, Leo I. (1994). Sources of social structure in a start-up organization: Work networks, work activities, and job status. Social Networks 16 (Aug.) 191-212. |
orgs, multiple relations, analysis technique, wholistic study |
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Podolny, Joel M. & Baron, James N. (1997). Resources and relationships: Social networks and mobility in the workplace. Amercian Sociological Review, 62, 673-693. |
orgs, mobility |
Week 5: Social Support
Readings
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Walker, J., Wasserman, S. & Wellman, B. (1994). Statistical models for social support networks. In S. Wasserman & J. Galaskiewicz (Eds.), Advances in Social Network Analysis (pp. 53-78). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
social support, review |
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Wellman, B. & Gulia, M. (1999b). The network basis of social support: A network is more than the sum of its ties. In B. Wellman (Ed.). Networks in the Global Village (pp. 83-118). Boulder, CO: Westview Press. |
social support |
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Haines, Valerie A, Hurlbert, Jeanne, S., & Beggs, John J. (1996) Exploring the determinants of support provision: Provider characteristics, personal networks, community contexts, and support following life events. Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 37(3), 252-264. |
provision of social support |
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Pugliesi, Karen. Shook, Scott L. (1998) Gender, ethnicity, and network characteristics: Variation in social support resources. Sex Roles, 38(3-4), 215-38. |
social support |
Further reading
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Killworth, Peter D; Johnsen, Eugene C; Bernard, H. Russell; Shelley, Gene A; et al. (1990). Estimating the size of personal networks. Social Networks, 12(4), 289-312. |
method, personal networks, network size |
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Wellman, B. & Wortley, S. (1990). Different strokes from different folks: community ties and social support. American Journal of Sociology, 96, 558-588. |
social support |
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Wellman, B. (1992). Which types of ties and networks give what kinds of social support? In E. Lawler, B. Markovsky, C. Ridgeway and H. Walker (Eds.), Advances in Group Processes, Vol 9, (pp. 207-235). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. |
social support |
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Haines, V. and Hurlbert, J. (1992). Network range and health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 33: 254-66. |
size, range, social support, medical |
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Hammer, M. (1981). Social supports, social networks, and schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 7, 45-57. |
social support, medical |
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Bernard, H.R., Hohnsen, E.C., Killworth, P.D. McCarty, C., Shelley, G.A., & Robinson, S. (1990). Comparing four different methods for measuring personal social networks. Social Networks, 12, 179-215. |
method, personal networks |
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Van der Poel, Mart G. (1993) Delineating personal support networks. Social Networks, 15(1), 49-70. |
method, personal networks |
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Kochen M. 1989. The Small World, Norwood, NJ: Ablex |
method, personal networks, global nets |
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Bernard, H. Russell. Johnsen, Eugene C. Killworth, Peter D. (1991). Estimating the size of an average personal network and of an event subpopulation: some empirical results. Social Science Research, 20, 109-21. |
method, personal networks |
Week 6: Community
Readings
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Wellman, B. (1979). The community question. American Journal of Sociology, 84, 1201-1231 |
community |
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Wellman, B., Carrington, P. & Hall, A. (1997). Networks as personal communities. In B. Wellman & S.D. Berkowitz (Eds.), Social Structures: A Network Approach (pp. 130-84). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. |
personal networks |
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Wellman, B., Salaff, J., Dimitrova, D., Garton, L., Gulia, M., & Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Computer networks as social networks: Collaborative work, telework, and virtual community. Annual Review of Sociology, 22, 213-238. |
cmc, work, community, virtual, global networks |
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Wellman, B. & Gulia M. (1999). Net surfers don't ride alone: Virtual communities as communities. In M.A. Smith & P. Kollock (Eds.) Communities in Cyberspace (pp.167-194). London: Routledge. |
community, virtual |
Further reading
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Wellman, B. & Tindall, D. (1993). Reach out and touch some bodies: How social networks connect telephone networks. In W. Richards, Jr. & G. Barnett (Eds.), Progress in Communication Sciences Vol. 12, (pp. 63-93). Norwood, NJ.: Ablex. |
community, technology (Phone) |
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Wellman, B. (1999).The network community: An introduction to networks in the global village. In Wellman, B. (Ed.) Networks in the Global Village. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. |
community |
Week 7: Issues in the Exchange of Information, Part I
Readings
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Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Social network analysis: An approach and technique for the study of information exchange. Library and Information Science Research, 18, 323-342. |
application of SNA to information exchange |
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McPherson, J. Miller & Smith-Lovin, Lynn (1987). Homophily in voluntary organizations: Status, distance, and the composition of face-to-face groups. American Sociology Review, 52 (June), 370-379. |
info-access, similarity, social influence, groups |
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McPherson, J.M. & Smith-Lovin, L. (1986). Sex segregation in voluntary associations. American Sociological Review, 51(1), 61-79. |
info-access, similarity, social influence, groups |
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Burt, Ronald (1992). Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Chapter 1. |
information access and control, structural holes |
Week 8: Issues in the Exchange of Information, Part II
Readings
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Pettigrew, K.E. (2000) Lay information provision in community settings: How community health nurses disseminate human services information to the elderly. Library Quarterly. |
medical information |
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Ibarra, Herminia & Andrews, Steven B. (1993). Power, social influence and sense making: Effects of network centrality and proximity on employee perceptions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38, 227-303. |
orgs, social information processing, network interaction vs perceptions of work conditions |
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Kameda, Tatsuya. Ohtsubo, Yohsuke. Takezawa, Masanori. (1997). Centrality in sociocognitive networks and social influence: An illustration in a group decision-making context. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 73, 296-309. |
shared information & knowledge, social influence, sociocognitive networks, decision making |
Further reading
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Feld, Scott. (1982). Social structural determinants of similarity among associates. American Sociological Review, 47, 797-801. |
info-access, similarity, social influence, groups |
Week 9: Application of SNA to the Virtual World
Readings
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Rice, R.E. (1994). Network analysis and computer-mediated communication systems. In S. Wasserman & J. Galaskiewicz (Eds.), Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp. 167-203). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
application, electronic groups |
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Constant, D., Sproull, L.S., & Kiesler, S.B. (1996). The kindness of strangers: The usefulness of electronic weak ties for technical advice. Organization Science, 7(2), 119-135. |
weak ties, advice |
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Garton, L., Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (June, 1997) Studying online social networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3(1). http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue1/garton.html |
method, online |
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Haythornthwaite, C. (2000). Online personal networks: Size, composition and media use among distance learners. New Media and Society, 2(2), 195-226.. |
virtual, personal networks, technology |
Further reading
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Wellman, B. (1997). An electronic group is virtually a social network. In S. Kiesler (Ed.), Cultures of the Internet (pp.179-205). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum . |
application, electronic groups |
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Smith, M.A. (1999). Invisible crowds in cyberspace: Mapping the social structure of the Usenet. In Smith, M.A. & Kollock, P. (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace (pp. 195-219). London: Routledge. |
method, Usenet |
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Rice, R.E. (1990). Computer-mediated communication system network data: Theoretical concerns and empirical examples. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 32, 627-647. |
method, data, cmc |
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Feldman, M. (1987). Electronic mail and weak ties in organizations. Office: Technology and People 3: 83-101. |
weak online ties |
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Pickering, J.M. & King, J.L. (1995). Hardwiring weak ties: Interorganizational computer-mediated communication, occupational communities, and organizational change. Organization Science, 6(4), 479-486. |
online interorg ties |
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Haythornthwaite, C., Wellman, B. & Garton, L. (1998). Work and community via computer-mediated communication. In J. Gackenbach (Ed.) Psychology of the Internet (pp.199-226). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. |
overview of CMC and SNA |
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Haythornthwaite, C., Wellman, B. & Mantei, M. (1995). Work relationships and media use: A social network analysis. Group Decisions and Negotiations, 4(3), 193-211. |
network relations and media use in a co-located group |
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Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (1998).Work, friendship and media use for information exchange in a networked organization. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(12), 1101-1114. |
further analysis of network relations and media use in a co-located group |
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Haythornthwaite, C. (forthcoming). Building social networks via computer networks: Creating and sustaining distributed learning communities. In A. Renninger & W. Shumar (Eds.) Building Virtual Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
computer supported collaborative learning, learning communities |
Week 10: Influence of Technology on Information Networks
Readings
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Burkhardt, M.E. & Brass, D.J. (1990). Changing patterns and patterns of change - The effects of a change in technology on social network structure and power. ASQ, 35(1), 104-127. |
evolution, technology |
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Barley, Stephen R. (1990). The alignment of technology and structure through roles and networks. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35 (March), 61-103. |
evolution, technology, medical |
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Sverrison, Arni (1994). Making sense of chaos: Socio-technical networks, careers and enterpreneurs. Acta Sociologica. 37(4), 401-417. |
application to technology change, structural equivalence, actor network and social network approach |
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Bardini, Thierry. Horvath, August T. The social construction of the personal computer user. Journal of Communication. v. 45, Summer 1995, p. 40-65. |
technology, social construction, actor networks |
Week 11: Diffusion of Innovations
Readings
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Rogers, E.M. (1995). Diffusion of Innovation. Free Press. Chapter 8. |
SNA applied to DI |
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Coleman, J.S., Katz, E., & Menzel, H. (1957). The diffusion of an innovation among physicians. Sociometry, 64, 253-270.. |
DI, medical, classic |
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Tornatzky, L.G., & Fleischer, M. (1990). The Processes of Technological Innovation. Lexington, MA.:Lexington Books. Chapter 6, The deployment of technology. |
information dissemination |
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Weenig, M.W.H., & Midden, C.J.H. (1991). Communcation-network influences on information diffusion and persuasion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(5), 734-742. |
DI |
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Michaelson, Alaina G. The development of a scientific specialty as diffusion through social relations: The case of role analysis. Social Networks. Vol 15(3), Sep 1993, 217-236. |
method, science, DI of an SNA technique, role analysis |
Further reading
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Rogers, E.M. (1979). Network analysis of the diffusion of innovations. In Holland, P.W., & Leinhardt, S. (Ed). Perspectives on social network research, 137-164. NY: Academic Press. |
DI |
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Rogers, E.M., & Kincaid, L.M. (1981). Communication Networks: Toward a new paradigm for research. NY: The Free Press |
DI |
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Davis, G.F. (1991). Agents without principles? The spread of the poison pill through intercorporate networks. ASQ, 36(4), 583-613. |
DI, interorg networks |
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Burt, R.S. (1987). Social contagion and innovation: Cohesion versus structural equivalence. American Journal of Sociology, 92, 1287-1335. |
DI, re-evaluation of Coleman, Katz & Menzel from SNA perspective |
Week 12: Social Networks of Information Exchange in Science
Readings
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Allen, T.J. (1970). Communication networks in R&D laboratories. R&D Management, 1(1), 14-21. |
science, communication |
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Crane, D. (1972). Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of knowledge in scientific communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. introduction/chapter 1 |
science, knowledge, DI |
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Liberman, Sofia; Wolf, Kurt Bernardo (1997). The flow of knowledge: Scientific contacts in formal meetings. Social Networks, 19(3), 271-284. |
science, flow of knowledge |
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Zucker, Lynne G. Darby, Michael R. (1997). Individual action and the demand for institutions: star scientists and institutional transformation. American Behavioral Scientist, 40, 502-13. |
biotech, science, star position, institutional level, micro-macro |
Further reading
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Walsh, J., & Bayma, T. (1996). Computer networks and scientific work. Social Studies of Science, 26, 61-703. |
science, virtual |
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Carley, K., & Wendt. K. (1991). Electronic mail and scientific communication. Knowledge 12(4), 406-40. |
science, email |
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Cott, Cheryl. "We decide, you carry it out": a social network analysis of multidisciplinary long-term care teams. Social Science & Medicine. v. 45 no9, Nov. 1997, p. 1411-21 |
medical profession, interdisciplinary teams, groups, blockmodelling |
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Baddareco, Joseph (1991). The Knowledge Link. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. |
orgs, knowledge, embeddedness |
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Cottrill, Charlotte A., Rogers, Everett, M., & Mills, Tamsy (1989). Co-citation analysis of the scientific literature of innovation research traditions. Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 11(2), 181-208. |
science, co-citation |
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Liberman, Sofia; Wolf, Kurt Bernardo. Bonding number in scientific disciplines. (1998) Social Networks, 20(3), 239-246. |
science, co-authorship |
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White, Douglas R., & McCann, H. Gilman. (1997). Cities and fights: Material entailment analysis of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution. In B. Wellman & S.D. Berkowitz (Eds.), Social Structures: A Network Approach (pp. 380-400). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. |
science |
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Week 13: Complementary Theories, New Approaches
Readings
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Lin, Nan (1999). Building a network theory of social capital. [updated version of paper presented at the XIX International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Chaleston, S.Carolina, February, 1999. |
SNA and social capital |
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Cook, Karen S. Whitmeyer, Joseph M. Two approaches to social structure: exchange theory and network analysis. Annual Review of Sociology. v. 18, 1992, p. 109-27. |
SNA and exchange theory; social structure |
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Monge, P. & Contractor, N. S. (in press). Emergence of Communication Networks. In F.M. Jablin & L.L. Putnam (Eds.) Handbook of Organizational Communication (2nd Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. http:/www.tec.spcomm.uiuc.edu/nosh/HOCNets.html |
network evolution, orgs |
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Supplementary
Application of SNA to different fields
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Stohl, C. (1995). Organizational Communication: Connectedness in Action. Newbury Park, CA: Sage |
application to org communication |
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Nohria, N. (1992). Introduction: Is a network perspective a useful way of studying organizations? In N. Nohria & R.G. Eccles (Eds.), Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action (pp. 1-22). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. |
application to orgs |
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Brass, D.J. (1995). A social network perspective on human resources management. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, 13, 39-79. |
application to human resources, review |
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Schweizer, Thomas. Embeddedness of ethnographic cases: a social networks perspective. Current Anthropology. v. 38 no5, Dec. 1997, p. 739-52, 758-60-- Related material:Discussion. v38 no5 p752-8 D '97; v39 no4 p514-19 Ag/O '98. |
application to anthropology, embeddedness |
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Haythornthwaite, C. (in press). Social networks of collaborative work and media use among distributed learners. In A. Renninger & W. Shumar (Eds.) Building Virtual Community. Cambridge University Press. |
application to CSCL |
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DeBresson, C & Amesse, F. (1991). Networks of innovators: A review and introduction to the issue. Research Policy, 20, 363-379. |
application to DI, review and intro |
Embeddedness; Blockmodelling
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Granovetter, Mark (1985). Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology, 91(3), 481-510. |
embeddedness, economic action |
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Uzzi, Brian (1996). The sources and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of organizations: The network effect. American Sociological Review, 61(4), 674-698. |
embeddedness, orgs, economic performance |
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Aldrich, H., & Whetten, D.A. (1981). Organization sets, action-sets, and networks: Making the most of simplicity. In P.C. Nystrom & W.H. Starbuck (eds.), Handbook of Organizational Design (pp. 385-408). NY: Oxford University Press |
embeddedness, orgs, structures of inter-org. relations |
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White, Harrison C., Boorman, Scott A. & Breiger, Ronald L. (1976). Social structure from multiple networks: Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81, 730-750. |
blockmodelling |
Other General References
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Alba, R.D. (1982). Taking stock of network analysis: A decade's results. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 1, 39-74 |
general, update |
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Contractor, N.S. & Eisenberg, E.M. (1990). Communication networks and new media in organizations. In J. Fulk & C.W. Steinfield. (Eds.), Organizations and Communication Technology (pp. 143-172). Newbury Park, CA: Sage. |
general, org communication |
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Johnson, J. David. (1993). Network Analysis. In Organizational Communication Structure (pp.33-58). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp. [also 'Technological Factors' same book] |
intro, communication |
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Stinchcombe, A.L. (1990). Information and Organizations. Berkeley, CA: University. of California Press. |
non-sna: orgs, structure, information |