Network Theory and Communication phenomena: methodological problems
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Development of network theory has advanced in parallel with the massive dissemination of digital networks (Internet and wireless telephony). Using the transdisciplinary approach of this theory, a veritable onslaught of “hard” scientists has been observed in the field of social sciences, more particularly in the study of communication phenomena. While this “hardening” process of social sciences presents, undoubtedly, many positive aspects, at the same time it generates methodological problems as well. That process is briefly described in this article, and some of the problems “hardening” entails are analyzed. The conclusion points to a necessary convergence in traditional research methodologies from both fields, “hard” sciences and social sciences, so that communication research is enabled to jump ahead epistemologically, in order to satisfy the demands of digital networks in the twenty-first century.
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