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Social network analysis calculates and displays the relationships that exist among a collection of people, like those on a project, in an organization, or participating in a blog. From this analysis, the researcher can find key people, outliers, subgroups, and people who bridge subgroups. And, these analyses can reveal changes over time, for example, before and after a technology is introduced.

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Hansen, D.L., Smith, M.A. (2014). Social Network Analysis in HCI. In: Olson, J., Kellogg, W. (eds) Ways of Knowing in HCI. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0378-8_17

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