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# Theories of Communication Networks

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    Good material, but needs a lot better organization.
  

*by H***! on Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2010*

The book covers many interesting things, but the organization of the topics needs a lot of improvement.Pros:(1) Covers a lot of theories that you will find interesting, if you are working on network-related studies.(2) Hands-on, step-by-step guidelines on how to use PSPAR program to do p* modeling.Cons:(1) The Table of Contents should be a lot more detailed. At least include the subsections. Every time I tried to find something that I read earlier, it takes a long time.(2) Need more subsections within the chapters.(3) Applying the ERGM model - I hope the authors have plans to update the book using more state-of-the-art programs like Statnet. PSPAR might be good but hasn't been updated for a long time.Overall, I think it's good to keep as a reference. The MTML (Multi-thoeretical, multi-level) approach that they propose makes sense, but it just leaves you a feeling that they are trying to say a lot of things but didn't quite accomplish that. If they are stronger on the application part (i.e. how to actually model your data) with good software, it would have been much more helpful.

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    For a graduate student just starting into SNA research, ...
  

*by 2***) on Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2015*

For a graduate student just starting into SNA research, this book has been extremely helpful as an overview and introduction.

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    Difficult Read But ...
  

*by D***C on Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2008*

I bought this book on the recommendation of a colleague.  Unusually for me it has taken many months to read, and I have found it a hard slog - I simply could not maintain my interest.  The content is dense and at times challenging.The authors bring together several theories to come up with an integrative framework to research communication networks.  By combining several approaches they seek to move from descriptive and exploratory techniques to inferential and confirmatory models - this was the attraction of the book for me; unfortunately in the end I wasn't completely convinced.  That said I do agree that networks should be examined on multiple levels and that a multi-theoretical approach has considerable merit.Given networks lend themselves to visual analysis I was disappointed with the lack of explanatory diagrams in the book - in my view this is a major weakness that could easily be rectified in future editions.  Complete beginners may find some of the inferential statistics daunting, but I think they are essential to the argument.  I'm not a mathematician so at times I found myself reading the book in parallel with a mathematics text.So all in all I would give the book a four-star rating - three stars for readability and five stars for a novel approach to network research.  It has a place on the bookshelf of every serious student of network analysis.Regards, Graham

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