Social Network and Information & Communication Environment

Abstract

In this paper we use the concept of network as an broad sense.We at first distinguish two different concepts of network such as soft network and hard network. The former includes the traditional concept of weak tie among actors which is used in the social science.The later include the traditional concept of network on which a certain service is provided. In this paper we discuss the strong relation between these different concepts of networks.For the purpose we show the examples of social and organizational networking and show the relation in the second section. We also extend the concept of hard network to more general concept of a common platform and services on it. In the last section we discuss the strong impact of the change of infrastructure for information networking to the social networking. We focus on the change of life world and networking of knowledge.