Content and Context in Social Network Analysis

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Abstract

This paper discusses the importance of content and context in social network analysis. Arguing against the commonly held view that content and context are ‘soft’, add-on details whose analysis might supplement social network analysis proper I suggest that they are integral complexities which are removed in the process of simplification whereby networks are constructed as objects of scientific investigation but which must be reintroduced in many cases if analysis is to be meaningful and robust. This will often entail a mixed-method approach to social network analysis.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNetworks in the Global World V
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of NetGloW 2020
EditorsArtem Antonyuk, Nikita Basov
Place of PublicationDordrecht
PublisherSpringer Nature
Chapter1
Pages3-14
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2021

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