Tag: relationships

My Research…

My Research…

After reviewing the literature associated with this field of study, it suggested to me to look at online social networks from the online-offline dynamic. The online-offline dynamic is defined as the ability of an online social network to develop and maintain relationships and transfer those relationships to the real world environment. Therefore, it seemed that …

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Social Networks

Social Networks

Barnes expands on what he refers to as an “orienting statement” to explore social network beyond the metaphor established by sociologists and anthropologists. He chooses to adapt Bott’s view of social network as a means of understanding “how the internal functioning of a group is affected not only by its relationship with the people and …

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