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Futures of Social Networks: Where Are Trends Heading?

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Communication network; Interorganizational networks; Intraorganizational networks; Sociotechnical systems

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Dyad :

Relationship between a pair of actors. Can be existent or nonexistent (empty dyad).

Engineered networks :

Networks that are consciously created and have common goals. Participants have a mutual awareness or even a common identity as network members (see Doz et al. 2000).

Link :

Often also called edge or relation. Next to node, the basic building block of social networks. Links can be directed (have a sender and receiver) or undirected. Links have a certain content (transaction relations, communication, boundary penetration relations, instrumental relations, sentiment relations, authority/power relations, kinship, and descent relations) and a form (intensity or strength of the link, level of joint involvement) (see also Knoke and Kuklinski 1982). Relationships can be uniplex (one type of tie) or multiplex (at least two types of ties between two actors).

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  1. Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jörg Raab

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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    Talel Abdessalem

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau, QC, Canada

    Rokia Missaoui

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Raab, J. (2016). Futures of Social Networks: Where Are Trends Heading?. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_64-1

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