Catherine and other SOCNET colleagues,
You ask what kind of attributes i am interested
in. Well i am unsure. Whiltst i accept 'how' communicaiton occurs in
an informal network can be mapped and positions quantified by SNA, the only
explaination for 'why' they occur this way is based around the SNA quantitative
data/paradigm. Regarding innovations, there are many attributes related to
the innovation, cost, advantages, drivers behind it etc etc (Rogers early
stuff) and the type of social system it is diffused into, interest rates,
political system, level of competition etc etc. This is before we start to
consider elements concerning the actors, education, value systems, individual
drivers etc. If occurs to me that there are all these complementary
'softer' issues that actually contribute to the network which i want to
include.
I hope you can make sense of this.
Kind regards
Graeme Larsen
Doctoral Researcher
University of Reading
