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Dear Barry,
Knowing the legacy of your contributions I understand why you would like to defend this position. But maybe we need to re-think this.
What about calling 'Network Analysis' a paradigm that incorporates:
'social network analysis' with
'business network analysis',
'actor-network theory', and other methods / approaches / methodologies for network analysis.
Can we go beyond interconnected human beings, to interconnected organisations and business units, and even heterogeneous systems of interconnected people, organisations, institutions, assets/resources, technological/cultural artefacts... My social capital is not only my social contacts, and I hardly could capitalise on all potential social contacts that I have through SOCNET (for example).
Emanuela Todeva
University of Surrey, UK
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From: Social Networks Discussion Forum on behalf of Barry Wellman
Sent: Thu 05/01/2006 18:15
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Subject: SNA is not a method
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Dear Sergio Romero (and others),
Your homework assignment is to write 100 times:
"Social Network Analysis is not 'a method' but a paradigm.
A way of looking at the social world and analyzing it."
To see it as only a method is to miss the whole point of SNA.
Barry, INSNA founder
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To network is to live; to live is to network
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