Rogério de Paula
ABSTRACT
In this talk, I examine the manifest, emic meanings of social networking in the context of social network analysis and it uses this to discuss how the confluence of social science and computational sociology can contribute to a richer understanding of how emerging social technologies shape and are shaped by people's everyday practices.
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Index Terms
- The social meanings of social networks: integrating SNA and ethnography of social networking
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