There has been some work towards social network analysis built into social networking software. With the new facebook API, there's a plugin called 'Friend Wheel' that makes a circle graph of all of your facebook friends. It's not the most detailed thing in the world, it doesn't report any statistics, but it gives a good look at different networks and cliques within your own friendship circles. For example, my wheel can be found at http://www.crashthatch.com/facebook/friendwheel/showwheelgif.php?userid=2812.... Still a long way to go, though. Ben Spigel Graduate Student Department of Geography The Ohio State University On 7/8/07, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Malene has done a useful service with her 35 types of social networkING SOFTWARE perspective.
Not her fault, but I do think it is important to keep social networking software distinct from the pretty different (and older) tradition of social network analysis (and theory), etc. (See the first chapter in Wellman-Berkowitz __Social Structures_ and Linton Freeman's newish book for a history of SNA.
Actually, I wish the social networking folks would build better tools that use social network analysis, but so far, there has been little action.
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