Social Network

Since I have been interested in Social Networks, I have decided to read more about it.
"Social networks and the study of relations: networks as method, metaphor and form" by Hannah Knox, Mike Savage and Penny Harvey which was published in Economy and Society,Vol. 35 No. 1 Feb. 2006, 113-140.
It was interesting cause I don't know much about this issue, this paper had summarized key studies in two fields of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Social Anthropology with this approach.
When I was reading I felt that the "field" of social network in my mind has many thousand off lamps which by reading this paper those lamps are turned on one by one. although they became sporadically without any special relations, I know the more I read about the topic, the lamps will be on. It is in this way always when I encounter to the new field of study.


I read another paper about two weeks ago which I liked. "The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging": On Language, and Power in Persian Weblogestan" by Alireza Doostdar in American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, Issue 4, pp. 651-662.
The most fascinating point about this paper was its methodology. Participatory observation is the first and most acceptable method in Anthropology. He had used this method for researching on blogs! He created his own blog and reading all blog and write about them, commenting n others' posts and link them interestingly claims that used participatory observation!
I love anthropologists who have done in a wide various range of research topics.