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- Re: Let's Get Rid of the Word "Social" in "Social Network"
By: David Allen
Date: May 30, 2008 1:01 PM - Re: Let's Get Rid of the Word "Social" in "Social Network"
By: Stan Wasserman
Date: May 30, 2008 12:27 PM - Re: Let's Get Rid of the Word "Social" in "Social Network"
By: Sean McDonald
Date: May 29, 2008 10:37 PM - Re: Let's Get Rid of the Word "Social" in "Social Network"
By: deichmans
Date: May 14, 2008 7:15 PM
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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
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Guess that means you'll have to rename your 'blog. "Complexity and Network Science Blog" has a nice ring to it.... :-)
Posted by: deichmans at May 14, 2008 7:15 PM
Yeah, absolutely. I used to work in politics, where we talked about "framing" issues. Every time you say "social" and "networking" in the same sentence, people jump to MySpace, LinkedIn, et. al. No good. Network Science is good, but a little dry I think. We're toying with "social analytics" at my company. What do you think?
Posted by: Sean McDonald at May 29, 2008 10:37 PM
How about "network analytics" rather than "social analytics"? In the world of social and behavioral science, there are LOTS of social analytics .....
Posted by: Stan Wasserman at May 30, 2008 12:27 PM
Not to be missed: The economics discipline has famously left out the 'social' part - of course, impoverishing the prospects for that paradigm ... To put 'social' into the story is perhaps the biggest news in a century, well, half a century.
We might not want to be too quick to throw out a - politically - major step, for intellectual directions, even if there are demurrals on other grounds. And even though economics may not _yet_ have been so affected by this work. One step at a time ... all the more reason not to jettison key words too quickly.
Posted by: David Allen at May 30, 2008 1:01 PM