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David Lazer
(Methodology, Networked Governance)

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Stanley Wasserman
(Current Trends, Methodology, Social Networks)

Guy Stuart
(Economic Sociology, Finance)

Allan Friedman
(Simulations)

Nathan Eagle
(Technology, Social Computing, Powerlaws, Current Trends)

Ben Waber
(Technology, Social Computing)
Ines Mergel
(Knowledge Sharing, Social Computing, Social Software, Current Trends)

Maria Binz-Scharf
(Qualitative Methodology, Knowledge Sharing, eGovernment)

Alexander Schellong
(Admin, eGovernment, Citizen Relationship Management)

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13 May 2008

Let's Get Rid of the Word "Social" in "Social Network"

Okay everyone, we do NETWORK SCIENCE ..... not SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS.

I am beginning to despise the word "social" in "social networks", "social networking", "social software", and so forth ......

Saul Hansell, in the piece "Steering Between Unsocial Networks and Social Spam" from today's (5/13/08) New York Times, sort of agrees with me.

Posted by Stan Wasserman at May 13, 2008 3:24 PM