Social network technologies for the dissemination of scientific studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Layla Fernanda Pereira de Oliveira Souza ◽  
Teresa Claudina de Oliveira Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Network Technologies

scholarly journals Who comes to mind? Dynamic construction of social networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Bayer ◽  
Neil Anthony Lewis ◽  
Jonathan Stahl
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Real World ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Relational Structures ◽  
Network Technologies

Much remains unknown about moment-to-moment social-network cognition — that is, who comes to mind as we go about our day-to-day lives. Responding to this void, we describe the real-time construction of cognitive social networks. First, we outline the types of relational structures that comprise momentary networks, distinguishing the roles of personal relationships, social groups, and mental sets. Second, we discuss the cognitive mechanisms that determine which individuals are activated — and which are neglected — through a dynamic process. Looking forward, we contend that these overlooked mechanisms need to be considered in light of emerging network technologies. Finally, we chart the next steps for understanding social-network cognition across real-world contexts, along with the built-in implications for social resources and intergroup disparities.

scholarly journals Who Comes to Mind? Dynamic Construction of Social Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Bayer ◽  
Neil A. Lewis ◽  
Jonathan L. Stahl
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Real World ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Relational Structures ◽  
Network Technologies

Much remains unknown about moment-to-moment social-network cognition—that is, who comes to mind as we go about our day-to-day lives. Responding to this void, we describe the real-time construction of cognitive social networks. First, we outline the types of relational structures that comprise momentary networks, distinguishing the roles of personal relationships, social groups, and mental sets. Second, we discuss the cognitive mechanisms that determine which individuals are activated—and which are neglected—through a dynamic process. Looking forward, we contend that these overlooked mechanisms need to be considered in light of emerging network technologies. Finally, we chart the next steps for understanding social-network cognition across real-world contexts, along with the built-in implications for social resources and intergroup disparities.

The Performativity of Networks

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Healy
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Finance Theory ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Network Technologies ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Strong Formulation

AbstractThe “performativity thesis” is the claim that parts of contemporary economics and finance, when carried out into the world by professionals and popularizers, reformat and reorganize the phenomena they purport to describe, in ways that bring the world into line with theory. Practical technologies, calculative devices and portable algorithms give actors tools to implement particular models of action. I argue that social network analysis is performative in the same sense as the cases studied in this literature. Social network analysis and finance theory are similar in key aspects of their development and effects. For the case of economics, evidence for weaker versions of the performativity thesis is quite good, and the strong formulation is circumstantially supported. Network theory easily meets the evidential threshold for the weaker versions. I offer empirical examples that support the strong (or “Barnesian”) formulation. Whether these parallels are a mark in favor of the thesis or a strike against it is an open question. I argue that the social network technologies and models now being “performed” build out systems of generalized reciprocity, connectivity, and commons-based production. This is in contrast both to an earlier network imagery that emphasized self-interest and entrepreneurial exploitation of structural opportunities, and to the model of action typically considered to be performed by economic technologies.

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