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Three networks walk into a bar...
Clay Spinuzzi, clay.spinuzzi@utexas.
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“When we talk about ‘networks’ are we talking about technologies, or societal organizations, or both? Or are we simply projecting the latest metaphor into any and every kind of social relationship we can see?” — Milton Mueller
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We could ask...Arquilla
Barabasi
Boisot
Burt
Callon
Castells
Child
Engestrom
Grabher
Granovetter
Hughes
Krackhardt
Latour
Law
Miettinen
Mol
Mueller
Nardi
Polodny
Ronfeldt
Small
Thompson
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(Social) Network analysisNodes: can be anything, as long as they are a specific type of thing
Links/edges: Can be any relationship, as long as it’s a specific type of relationship
Analysis: Typically quantitative
The network is: a frame of analysis
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Sociotechnical networksNodes: can be anything, often of any category
Links/edges: Can be any relationship, as long as participants interpret it as a relationship
Analysis: Typically qualitative
The network is: a frame of analysis
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Organizational networksNodes: are people
Links/edges: Are lines of alliance and authority (communication, coordination, cooperation)
Analysis: Often qualitative, sometimes quantitative
The network is: a phenomenon
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The three networks, compared
Social Network Analysis
Sociotechnical Networks
Networked Organizations
The network is... Analysis Analysis Phenomenon
Nodes are... Homogeneous (human beings)
Heterogeneous (human and nonhuman actants)
Homogeneous (human beings)
Links are ... Homogeneous (communicative connections)
Heterogeneous (rhetorical and cognitive associations)
Heterogeneous (communicative connections and lines of authority)
Data collection methods are ...
Quantitative Qualitative Quantitative and qualitative
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Questions?