Network concepts in social theory: Foucault and cybernetics

Social Network Analysis and Game Theory: Basic Concepts and Assumptions

I use social network analysis and game theory in the models developed in this book. It is useful to discuss the basic concepts associated with these two “tools” before I begin. Readers familiar with social network analysis should check the formal definitions of a social network and the related network parameters in Section 2.1, because these definitions are somewhat different than those used in...

Foucault and Social Measure

Cybernetics: Cybernetics and the Theory of Knowledge

Communities of Practice , Foucault and Actor Network Theory

The paper discusses some of the main contributions to the theory of communities of practice (COP theory), especially as it relates to organizational learning. The paper does not attempt a full overview but concentrates on the notion of power relations. Early COP theory, was formulated as part of situated learning theory, and promised to work on issues of social context and unequal power relatio...

Visualizing social network concepts

a r t i c l e i n f o Social network concepts are invaluable for understanding the social network phenomena, but they are difficult to comprehend without computerized visualization. However, most existing network visualization techniques provide limited support for the comprehension of network concepts. This research proposes an approach called concept visualization to facilitate the understand...