[Air-L] social networks connect more than people

[Barry Wellman]

One expansion of danah's def. of social networks. She (and Nicole) talk
about them as links between people.

But as commonly used in the social network analysis literature, they can
also be links between organizations (like Microsoft Research and
Berkeley), states (like USA and Saudi Arabia), etc. In other words, the
level doesn't have to be interpersonal, although most research is done at
the interpersonal level.

 Barry Wellman
 Founder, International Network for Social Network Analysis (1977)
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