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Chua, V. (2016). Personal Networks: Ties, Space, and the Internet. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_84-1
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