Social Networks and Information Transfer

• Autores: Caroline Haythornthwaite
• Localización: Encyclopedia of library and information sciences / coord. por Marcia J. Bates, Vol. 6, 2010 (Pacific-Sociology), págs. 4837-4847
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Information exchange, transfer and flow can often depend on the motivations of individuals who share that information. This in turn depends on the relationships they maintain with others, and the networks of information sharing resulting from their interconnections. This entry describes the attributes of social networks that facilitate or inhibit the exchange of information, how to discover these networks, and how different configurations of networks can constrain or facilitate information transfer