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The emergence of online social networking platforms established a new way of publicly identifying ourselves as being tied to others. However, obtaining convincing data on how individuals conceptualise the quality of these digitally mediated social relations is challenging.

I discuss the advantages of using hand-drawn network maps for eliciting data on digitally mediated ties and compare these charts to classic approaches to data elicitation used by social network analysts (e.g. the name generator technique). I show how hand-drawn network maps provide respondents with a more tangible resource with which to recall data on their digital ties and interpret their affordances. 

The Nuffield Social Network Seminars are convened by Cohen R. Simpson & Laurin B. Weissinger. For further information, please email cohen.simpson@sociology.ox.ac.uk.