Social networking : recent trends, emerging issues, and future outlook /

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Imprint:New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, [2013]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Media and Communications - Technologies, Policies and Challenges
Media and communications-- technologies, policies and challenges.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11202478
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Other authors / contributors:Tu, Xin M.
White, Ann Marie.
Lu, Naiji, Ph.D.
ISBN:9781628085341
1628085347
9781628085297
1628085290
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English.
Description based on print version record.
Summary:Social networking focuses on social relationships (e.g., friendships) diagrammed as nodes (points) and links (ties or edges between points). Social network analysis (SNA) examines features of such relationships within a social networking system, including how such social interactions change over time. SNA can measure and map ""connectedness"" or ""flow"" (e.g., information, resources, etc.) within and across individuals, groups, and organizations. SNA can examine these ties in virtual- or geo-temporal spaces - yielding rich mixed methods possibilities and wide application to a host of scientif.
Other form:Print version: Social networking New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2013] 9781628085297 (hardcover)