Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Day 1 - Vocab


Social network: a patterned set of relationships between two or more actors

actor, node, vertex: an entity in a relationship

social capital:  the resources—such as ideas, information, money, trust—available in and through personal and business networks

network tie: the connection or relationship between actors

density:  reflects how many people in a network are connected (usually directly) to each other

network size: the number of nodes

direct tie: 2 nodes connected by  1 line

indirect tie: two nodes connected by 2 or more lines

dyad: 2 actors connected by a tie

triad: 3 actors connected by 2 or 3 ties






activity:how participative a node is

influence: the potential to affect nodes

social network analysis:  the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, Web sites, and other information/knowledge processing entities.





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