Artefact-Actor-Networks are a concept that I am developing in the context of my Ph.D. thesis and that might help to better cope with the enormous amount of data that all of us produce since the Web 2.0 has arrived. Artefact-Actor-Networks bring together social networks and artefacts networks with metrics from the social network analysis and semantic web.
There is a dedicated blog on the topic.
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