Social Network Analysis Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies PDF

Features

Shows how researchers from different disciplines work together towards specific problems related to socialnetwork research.

Provides different angles to understand social network structure and dynamics (both qualitative and quantitative)

Gives insights on traditional and tropical problems related to human social networks

Reveals intercultural aspects of social networks

Includes case studies and applications of interdisciplinary social network research

Summary

The book addresses the issue of interdisciplinary understanding of collaboration on the topic of social network studies. Researchers and practitioners from various disciplines including sociology, computer science, socio-psychology, public health, complex systems, and management science have worked largely independently, each with quite different principles, terminologies, theories. and methodologies. The book aims to fill the gap among these disciplines with a number of the latest interdisciplinary collaboration studies.

Authors: Xiaoming Fu, Jar-Der Luo, Margarete Boos