 |
 |
***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** Why not build a database that organizes citations according to the most frequently queried SNR topics? Jim Luther University of Pittsburgh -----Original Message----- From: Jun Zhang [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:32 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Social capital and social networks? ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** Valdis, I don't agree with you. Even Google can usually give us good results, I still think the best resource for social network knowledge is "SOCNET" email list -- which NETWORKED most of well known social network researchers...that's also how we increase the social capital of SOCNET, isn't it (If I don't misunderstand the meaning of social capital). Of course, there will be a lot of negative issues we need to address, such as "elite members" might want to quit because of they are tired of answering too much simple questions. However, helping new comers who just start their research on SNA is also one purpose of this list and many old members are happy to do that, isn't it? Actually, one topic I always interesting in is that how we could use Social Network to help people share/find information. For people in academic, sometimes it is really important to find the right people who do related research in this area instead of a pdf file URL from Google. From the author of PDF to find that person is one solution, finding that people directly from something like "SOCNET" is another. While Google is good at 1st. SOCNET is good at 2nd. So, while some people already complained that we rely too much on Google these days, should we kill the 2nd options - which is emphasis the importance of "Social Network" ourselves? Just my 2 cents, Best Regards, Jun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valdis Krebs" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:02 PM Subject: Re: Social capital and social networks? > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > > It is amazing how smart people on this list do not know how to use Google! > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=social+capital+networ k > > Read the first PDF Google finds. Next, look up PageRank on Google to know why the first PDF Google found is a good suggestion. > > Valdis > > > > ---- Matej Cepl <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > > > > How does phenomenon of social capital fits into the study of > > social networks? What are the similarities, what are the > > differences? Can you suggest some good (and brief :-) literature > > on this issue? > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > > _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.