Using Information Networks to Understand Social Behavior
Link[PLACEHOLDER: Annotation on leveraging information network data for social behavioral research.]
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Bridges data engineering and social science by demonstrating how information networks, including the patterns in email, messaging, and online interaction, can be analyzed to understand social behavior. Provides a technical audience with a framework for seeing social structure in the digital traces they already collect.
Argues that information networks, the patterns in email, messaging, and online interaction, provide a distinct epistemological window onto social behavior. What networks reveal about social life is not a subset of what surveys reveal; it is a fundamentally different kind of knowledge.