CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Network, Social Capital, Social Group

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

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Cct109 lecture #6 - october 15 th 2015. Test 2 - october 22nd - no short answer only multiple choice. Agenda: social network analysis, networked information economy, participation media. Social group: two or more people, regular interaction, shared identity, small, bureaucratic, space bound, household & work. Social network: a set of relations among members of a network; members may be individuals, organizations or states: strong ties/weak ties, diverse others, specialized roles, participation in multiple networks, resources. Rise of social networks: pre-internet, transport, communication, mobile, computer network is part of social network. Wellman: networked individualism: people increasingly networked as individuals rather than embedded in groups; individuals possess greater degrees of autonomy in networks than they did in groups. Actor network theory: social theory, treats objects as part of social network, relations are simultaneously material and semiotic (relationship between objects and concepts) Networked information economy: changing organization relations due to :