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juli 30, 2004
See you in the Funny Papers: Cartoons and Social Networks
Linton C. Freeman See you in the Funny Papers: Cartoons and Social Networks, ett roligt sätt att beskriva sociala nätverk.
From time to time a branch of science captures the imagination of the public; it gets "hot." When that happens, references to the "hot" item appear in newspapers, in novels, in movies -- even in cartoons. Forty odd years ago, for example, Ray Birdwhistell (1952) first introduced kinesics, the field concerned with the importance of non-verbal gestures in human communication. Very soon, Al Capp introduced a new character in his comic strip, Li'l Abner. Capp began a series of based on the activities of a "Professor Fleasong," a specialist in the study of "toe gestures."
The field of social network analysis seems to be in that kind of center-stage position today. The fact that social networks is "hot" is indicated by its increasingly frequent appearance in the popular media, particularly in the comics. And, interestingly enough, many of those treatments are quite sophisti-cated. They refer, not just to the network idea, but they often reflect some of the more subtle and sophisticated ideas from our field -- and they do it with wit.
Publicerad år 2000 i tidskriften CONNECTIONS, An official journal of International Network for Social Network Analysis. Rätt många nummer finns online.
(Via Online Business Networks.)
Posted by hakank at juli 30, 2004 05:47 EM Posted to Social Network Analysis/Complex Networks