LINKS - International Center for Social Network Research

Interesting new Social Network study project, led by Dan Brass at Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky. From the site intro:

"The mission of the center is to bring together scholars from different academic disciplines who share a common interest in social network research and application.

Our overarching goal is to conduct and publish cutting-edge research in the rapidly expanding field of social network analysis; and to serve as a bridge between the science of social networks and real world organizational problems. The core insight of the network perspective is that the pattern of relations among the elements of a system—be they people, organizations, neurons, or computer servers—has important consequences for the system's performance.

This focus on patterns, in contrast to the more traditional emphasis on intrinsic characteristics of the elements that make up the system, makes network theory and methods highly versatile and adaptable to problems across a wide range of academic disciplines, including Management, Marketing, Information Systems, Sociology, Psychology, Communications, Physics and Biology."

Still all being set up, but keep an eye on the project ...