Global network research is an exciting new area of social analysis. This book is the first to provide a thorough investigation of global network links across time and space. Robert Holton demonstrates the way in which technological and interpersonal networks organise global society, providing vivid examples from the present and the past. This text gives practical advice on how to research global networks, and brings together leading theory and new evidence on the subject for all students learning about globalisation and contemporary social change.
Introduction -- Towards a theory of global networks -- Methodologies of global network analysis -- Global network types -- On the importance of particular persons -- Global networks and cross-cultural engagement -- Politics and global networks -- Prospects and challenges.