Book contents
- The Social Structure of Online Communities
- Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
- The Social Structure of Online Communities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Facebook
- 3 Virtual Worlds
- 4 Open-Source Software
- 5 Wikis
- 6 Citizen Social Science
- 7 Digital Government
- 8 Cultural Science
- Notes
- Index
- Series page
8 - Cultural Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2020
- The Social Structure of Online Communities
- Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
- The Social Structure of Online Communities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Facebook
- 3 Virtual Worlds
- 4 Open-Source Software
- 5 Wikis
- 6 Citizen Social Science
- 7 Digital Government
- 8 Cultural Science
- Notes
- Index
- Series page
Summary
The emergence of online communities provides a platform where a new multidisciplinary field of science can be assembled from portions of many existing disciplines: cultural science. The analogy is with cognitive science, which emerged over recent decades, and it contains several rather accurate metaphors.
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- The Social Structure of Online Communities , pp. 241 - 278Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020