TY - JOUR
AU - Levene, Mark
AB - © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Computer Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org Book Reviews Jeroen Bruggeman many ties has more chance of obtaining a new tie than an agent Social Networks: An Introduction. Routledge (2008). ISBN-13: with fewer ties. Not all networks have a power-law distribution; 978-0415458030. 194 pp. Paperback. for example, email contacts better fit a power-law distribution with an exponential cut-off, meaning that there is an upper Social networks have a long history in the social sciences. The bound on the number of contacts one has. The investigation traditional approach to the field, as presented in John Scott’s of the statistical properties of social networks is a very active Social Network Analysis, is to model the network using graph- area of research. theoretic concepts. This approach is still valid and is presented An interesting observation is that the field of social networks in the current book as a way to represent and conceptualize a has become truly inter-disciplinary with contributions from network. researchers in many fields outside the social sciences, including Bruggeman takes us beyond graph theory and puts some computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists. 
TI - Social Networks: An Introduction
JF - The Computer Journal
DO - 10.1093/comjnl/bxp069
DA - 2010-09-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/social-networks-an-introduction-qw3XmcPn3O
SP - 1129
EP - 1129
VL - 53
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -