Theories of Communication Networks
Peter R. Monge, "Theories of Communication Networks"
English | ISBN: 0195160371 | 2003 | 432 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0195160371 | 2003 | 432 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications. Second, it explores single levels of analysis rather than the multiple levels out of which most networks are
comprised. Third, network analysis has employed very little the insights from contemporary complex systems analysis and computer simulations. Foruth, it typically uses descriptive rather than inferential statistics, thus robbing it of the ability to make claims about the larger universe of networks.
Finally, almost all the research is static and cross-sectional rather than dynamic.
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