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Hi list members

I have just been reading Chapter 1 of Ronald Burt's Brokerage and Closure,
and noted one phrase - "Instead of seeing people as the source of
information, clusters are the source and people are the ports of access to
the information that circulates around them"

This prompted me to reflect on mailing lists as clusters and how they might
be linked by overlapping membership. And how members of a given list are
unlikely to be aware of all the links other members of that list have to
other lists. Some of which might be of interest to them.

Since I moderate three separate lists, relating to my areas of work, I
thought I would ask members of SocNet about any known examples of research
into overlapping mailing list membership. I am especially interested in the
survey methods used, whether by email or by webpage based surveys, or both.
But the actual results would also be of interest as well.

regards from Rick


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Subject: [SOCNET] Sport diffusion


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Hi everybody,

I am new here and would like to ask if someone knows which theories are
applied to sports diffusion, in particular to the diffusion of a sport
discipline in one or more countries. I built a network of a player market
through 20 years, but I could not find papers on such a topic and it is very
difficult for me to use some theories.

Thanks a lot!
Laura


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