Understanding the structure and role of academics' ego-networks on social networking sites

Academic social networking sites (SNS) seek to bring the benefits of online networking to an academic audience. Currently, the two largest sites are Academia.edu and ResearchGate. The ability to make connections to others is a defining affordance of SNS, but what are the characteristics of the netwo...

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Main Author: Jordan, Katy
Published: Open University 2017
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.703309