Course: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2022-2023

Course: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2022-2023 | Moodle Scienze umane

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS (6 CFU)

Lecture hours (starting Oct 6th, 2022)
Thu 8:30-10:00
Fri 8:30-10:00

Instructors:
Caterina Suitner, caterina.suitner@unipd.it
Tomaso Erseghe, tomaso.erseghe@unipd.it
Teaching
The course unit is delivered in classroom 14 @ Complesso Beato Pellegrino

We are also on-line @ https://unipd.zoom.us/j/95909296178 for those students that still have a VISA problem
- News forum about SNA
- Institutional page (contains short syllabus and useful info about SNA) URL
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- Data scraping Forum
  
  Dear all,
  tomorrow Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara will teach a seminar on data scraping.
  Please download:
  1. R https://cran.r-project.org/
  2. RStudio (to install after installing R) https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
  3. A code that can be useful to follow (lesson social media)
- lesson socialmedia File
  
  Uploaded 14/12/22, 17:17
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Course Schedule
- Le1 - Thu Oct. 6, 2022 Introduction to the course, What is social network analysis, What is a network, Examples of networks, Introducing the class, their own background and their expectation on the course
- SNA01 Introduction File
  
  Uploaded 6/10/22, 19:05
- IP presentation examples File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 11:59
- IP report example from last year Folder
- Le2 - Fri Oct. 7, 2022 Social cognition and social network analytics, Social network game, Bonding and bridging social capitals, Entitativity and ostracism, The cyber ball, Cohesion and brokerage,
- SNA02 Socio-cognitive perspective to network science File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 11:59
- Le3 - Fri Oct. 14, 2022 Networks as graphs; Directed and undirected networks; Examples; Weighted and signed graphs; The adjacency matrix: symmetries and conventions; Sparsity.
- SNA03 Graphs File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 11:59
- Network Science, by A.L. Barabasi URL
- Le4 - Thurs Oct. 20, 2022 Granovetter's weak tie theory, Weak ties, bridges, and structural holes, Efficient and effective networks. Project milestones: theoretical grounding, relevance, shaping the research question.
- SNA04 Define the problem File
  
  Uploaded 20/10/22, 10:02
- Granovetter's strength of weak ties (1973) File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 11:59
- excel spreadsheet - SNA groups 2022 URL
- Le5 - Fri Oct. 21, 2022 Bipartite graphs; Projections; Centrality measures; Degree for undirected and directed networks; Average degree; Authorities and hubs; Degree distribution; Loglog plot.
- SNA05 Degree centrality File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 12:00
- Le6 - Thu Oct. 27, 2022 Literature search: how to theoretically ground your research ideas in scientifically sound evidence. Tools and methods to look for literature search using online sources from key work planning to content management: how to assess journal authority, how to select relevant manuscripts, how to evaluate the quality of papers. Literature search lab in the classroom.
- SNA06 Literature search File
  
  Uploaded 27/10/22, 08:40
- Le7 - Fri Oct. 28, 2022 Brainstorming session on projects: 1) Language and sexist hate speech, 2) Menstrual stigma, 3) Anxiety and social media, 4) Politicians targeting young people on social networks.
- presentations folder - take 0 URL
- Le8 - Thu Nov. 3, 2022 Brainstorming session on projects: 5) Incels & alt-right, 6) Victim blaming, 7) Cancel culture. Methodological insights about network project: the process project definition, identification of the social network, and its boundaries. Sampling Issues.
- SNA08 sampling issues File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 12:00
- John P Scott - Social Network Analysis A Handbook (2000, SAGE Publications) File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 12:00
- Le9 - Fri Nov. 4, 2022 Statistical sampling; IP discussion continued; The power-law and scale-free networks; Preferential attachment; PageRank centrality: the random walk rationale; Solution to dead ends and spider traps: the teleportation vector.
- SNA09 PageRank centrality File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 12:00
- Le10 - Tue Nov. 8, 2022 (tentative) Presentation of interdisciplinary projects to engineers/data scientists
- Le11 - Thu Nov. 10, 2022 Pagerank versus degree; Tuning the teleport vector: local PageRank and topic specific PageRank; Examples of application; Closeness centrality; Betweenness centrality.
- Le12 - Fri Nov. 11, 2022 Semantic networks: issues about text retrieval, mining, and coding. Focus on linguistic cues of psychological processes and inter group relations. Overview of properties coded with LIWC dictionary
- The rise of# climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis URL
- SNA 12 semantic networks File
  
  Uploaded 11/11/22, 10:12
- Le13 - Thu Nov. 17, 2022 Clustering coefficient; Wrap up on centrality measures; Polarisation, homophily, selective exposure; Echo chambers and filter bubbles; Examples.
- SNA13a Other centrality measures File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 12:00
- Translating networks: linking visualization to statistics URL
- SNA13b Homophily File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 12:00
- Le14 - Fri Nov. 18, 2022 Polarisation in pro-life/pro-choice networks; Assortative and disassortative networks; Nearest neighbour degree; Conceptual picture of a network and its relation to Granovetter's theory; Algorithmic approaches; The core-periphery model; Overlapping communities.
- SNA14 Community detection File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 12:00
- Le15 - Thu Nov. 24, 2022 The relation between personality, structural position in the network and productivity.
- SNA15 Personality & network position File
  
  Uploaded 25/11/22, 08:15
- Le16 - Fri Nov. 25, 2022 Social contagion. A review of social influence on several behaviors. A study distinguishing homophily from contagion. A field experiment showing the power of small manipulation in the context of voting behaviors. Social contagion spreads faster across strong ties, with important consequences for the political involvement of crowds.
- SNA 16 persuasion File
  
  Uploaded 25/11/22, 08:16
- Le17 - Thu Dec. 1, 2022 IPs discussion: victim blaming, menstrual stigma, cancel culture, hate speech covid, accomodation
- Historical hashtag trends URL
- Google translate API URL
- LIWC data example - Maneskin tweets File
  
  Uploaded 1/12/22, 09:52
- Le18 - Fri Dec. 2, 2022 IPs discussion mental health, hate speech, incels; Community detection: some algorithmic approaches; Network robustness; Robustness of scale-free networks; Robustness to attacks; Optimizing robustness; Example with Tweets sentiments.
- SNA18 Robustness & link prediction File
  
  Uploaded 25/11/22, 08:36
- Le19 - Thu Dec. 15, 2022 Twitter and Reddit Lab: how to scrape data from social networks by using R. by Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara
- lesson socialmedia File
  
  Uploaded 15/12/22, 08:49
- Le20 - Fri Dec. 16, 2022 Gephi Lab: how to give networks a graphical representation through the open-source software Gephi https://gephi.org/. by Lejla Dzanko
- SNA20 Twitter Lab Materials Folder
- SNA20 Twitter & Reddit labs File
  
  Uploaded 27/09/22, 12:00
- Le21 - Thu Dec. 22, 2022 (tentative) IP projects feedback
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