“Social network fragments: an interactive tool for exploring digital social connections” by Boyd and Potter
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- Social network fragments: an interactive tool for exploring digital social connections
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We present a novel application for interactively visualizing the interpersonal networks that emerge during email interactions. While people have complex email interrelationships, no previous tools allow examining one’s overall network.
References:
1. Social Network Fragments (smg.media.mit.edu/projects/SNF/) emerged at MIT’s Media Lab, Sociable Media Group {BOYD 2002} in collaboration with Atof Inc as an extension of BuddyGraph (www.buddygraph.com).
2. BOYD, D. 2002. Faceted Id/entity: Managing Representation in a Digital World. MIT Master’s Thesis.
3. DONATH, J. 1995. Visual Who. Proceedings of ACM Multimedia ’95, Nov. 5–9, San Francisco CA.
