Editing Social network analysis (section)

=== Internet applications ===
Social network analysis has also been applied to understanding online behavior by individuals, organizations, and between websites.<ref name=Ghanbarnejad/> [[Hyperlink]] analysis can be used to analyze the connections between [[website]]s or [[Web page|webpages]] to examine how information flows as individuals navigate the web.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Osterbur |first1=Megan |last2=Kiel |first2=Christina |title=A hegemon fighting for equal rights: the dominant role of COC Nederland in the LGBT transnational advocacy network |journal=Global Networks |date=April 2017 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=234–254 |doi=10.1111/glob.12126 }}</ref> The connections between organizations has been analyzed via hyperlink analysis to examine which organizations within an issue community.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9781479849468.003.0034/html |chapter-url-access=subscription |doi=10.18574/nyu/9781479849468.003.0034 |isbn=978-1-4798-4946-8 |chapter=Pink Links: Visualizing the Global LGBTQ Network |date=19 September 2017 |publisher=New York University Press |editor1-first=Marla |editor1-last=Brettschneider |editor2-first=Susan |editor2-last=Burgess |editor3-first=Christine |editor3-last=Keating |title=LGBTQ Politics |pages=493–522 }}</ref>

==== Netocracy ====
Another concept that has emerged from this connection between social network theory and the Internet is the concept of [[netocracy]], where several authors have emerged studying the correlation between the extended use of online social networks, and changes in social power dynamics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Alexander|last2=Sšderqvist|first2=Jan|title=The Netocracts: Futurica Trilogy 1|date=24 February 2012 |publisher=Stockholm Text|isbn=9789187173004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeWCBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT131|access-date=3 March 2017|language=en}}</ref>

==== Social media internet applications ====
Social network analysis has been applied to social media as a tool to understand behavior between individuals or organizations through their linkages on social media websites such as [[Twitter]] and [[Facebook]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kwak|first1=Haewoon|last2=Lee|first2=Changhyun|last3=Park|first3=Hosung|last4=Moon|first4=Sue|title=Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web |chapter=What is Twitter, a social network or a news media? |date=2010-04-26|publisher=ACM|pages=591–600|doi=10.1145/1772690.1772751|isbn=9781605587998|citeseerx=10.1.1.212.1490|s2cid=207178765}}</ref>