Guest Editors' Introduction to Special Issue: Social Networks and Web 2.0

摘要

'It's not what you know, but who you know' is both the smug advice of the privileged, as well as the lament of the excluded. And not without reason: brains and diligence matter for success, but your social network is what really counts. Old orders fragment under pressure from new technologies - and over the past two decades, Internet technologies have become great progenitors of social transformation.