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Just to add another example:

http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour/articles/tgn.pdf

This a preliminary presentation of a social networks analysis of a project
mailing-list. The aim was to understand the interaction between structural
(positional) characteristics and employed discursive forms (genres). (I
hope sometime we might be able to finish it.)

Cheers & Peace,

--Moses

  M.A. Boudourides
  Associate Professor

  Department of Mathematics
  University of Patras
  265 00 Rio-Patras
  Greece

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Danyel Fisher said:
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> [Sorry, my last draft of this message bounced.]
>
> To add a few more datapoints:
>
> * Shelly Farnham, from Microsoft (may be on this list?) has done some
> related work, investigating the social networks of development teams
> based on, in two different studies,
>     - email interaction in the first
>     - mutual participation on group mailing lists in the second
> Apparently, at Microsoft, this latter is a startlingly strong
> indicator of participation and interest. She interviewed her users to
> find out what they *expected* to see, and then compared that to the
> networks that actually came out of their inboxes. She found a fairly
> high correlation and connection between users' expectations and the
> results they showed--plus lots of subjective comments from users who
> were startled at how good an indicator the mailing lists actually
> were.
>
> Some of these are written up in
>
> Farnham, S., Turski, A., Portnoy, W., & Davis, J.  (2002).  MSR
> Connections: Exploring Who Knows Whom through Social Networks .  Paper
> submitted to CSCW 2002.  [ http://research.microsoft.com/~shellyf/ ]
>
>
> * I have done some not-dissimilar work, measuring social networks as
> extracted from email "carbon-copy" lists for *outgoing* email records. I
> presented participants with both a network extracted from their last
> year of email, and "top ten" list of alters per month.  Throughout the
> interviews, my dozen participants were able to come up with coherent
> explanations for most, but not all, network configurations. Some did
> express disappointment at missing people (in particualr, my graphs never
> showed isolates--"but where's my wife?"). Since I did not
> pre-test my lists against expectations, I cant' tell you how many my
> networks missed.
>
> Danyel
>
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