Corso: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2023-2024

Corso: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2023-2024 | Moodle Scienze umane

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

Lecture hours (starting Oct 5, 2023)
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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Course slides
- SNA T1 introduction (updated 5/10) File
  
  Modificato il 5/10/2023 12:27
- SNA C1 intro to social network science File
  
  Caricato il 6/10/2023 09:56
- SNA T2-3 graphs and degree (updated 27/10) File
  
  Modificato il 27/10/2023 09:42
- SNA C2 network of people File
  
  Caricato il 19/10/2023 11:46
- SNA C3 sampling issues File
  
  Caricato il 27/10/2023 09:58
- SNA C4 literature search File
  
  Caricato il 30/11/2023 10:10
- SNA C5 semantic networks File
  
  Caricato il 9/11/2023 10:15
- SNA T4-5 pagerank and communities File
  
  Caricato il 3/10/2023 16:35
- SNA C6 social influence, contagion, homophily, and polarization; File
  
  Caricato il 30/11/2023 10:09
- SNA C7 attitudes File
  
  Caricato il 1/12/2023 11:06
- SNA T6-7 centralities and polarization File
  
  Caricato il 3/10/2023 18:08
Interdisciplinary Projects
Questa sezione
Lectures content
- Le1 - Thu Oct 5, 2023 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
- Le2 - Fri Oct 6, 2023 Social cognition and social network analytics, Networks of people, Psychometric network, Semantic networks, The process of a network project, Define problem and purpose, From questions to indicators: an example with #climatechange call for action discourse on Twitter
- PAPER: The rise of# climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis URL
- Le3 - Thu Oct 12, 2023 Networks as graphs; Directed and undirected networks; Examples; Weighted and signed graphs; The adjacency matrix: symmetries and conventions; Sparsity.
- BOOK: Network Science, by A.L. Barabasi URL
- Le4 - Thu Oct 19, 2023 Building my personal network, Social capital, Entativity, Ostracism, Cohesion, Borokerage, Granovetter's weak tie theory, Weak ties, bridges, and structural holes, Efficient and effective networks.
- PAPER: Granovetter's strength of weak ties (1973) File
  
  Caricato il 28/09/2023 21:11
- Le5 - Fri Oct 20, 2023 Brainstorming session on project topics and group forming.
- Le6 - Thu Oct 26, 2023 Bipartite graphs; Projections; Centrality measures; Degree for undirected and directed networks; Average degree; Authorities and hubs; Degree distribution.
- Le7 - Fri Oct 27, 2023 Log-log plot of the degree distribution; Power-law and scale-free networks; Explaining poer-law with preferential attachment and attactiveness; Process of a SNA project; Selecting the data; Defining the network, network boundaries; Random sampling, reputational and positional/structural approaches.
- BOOK: John P Scott - Social Network Analysis A Handbook (2000, SAGE Publications) File
  
  Caricato il 28/09/2023 21:11
- Le8 - Thu Nov 2, 2023 Proect ideas presentations: 1) Fast fashion fighters, 2) Israel war, 3) Wall-E, 4) popsTar, 5) Barbie, 6) Blacklivesmatter.
- Le9 - Fri Nov 3, 2023 Project ideas presentation: 7) Kardashian, 8) LoveYourSelf, 9) Abortion right; 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; scholar.google.com and www.webofscience.com or www.scimagojr.com
- Le10 - Thu Nov 9, 2023 Semantic networks; linguistic cues of psychological processes and inter group relations: focus on linguistic abstraction, generic masculine, derogatory labels and reappropriation, order and primacy effect; Issues about text retrieval, mining, and coding; Overview of properties coded with LIWC dictionary.
- DATA: LIWC data example - Maneskin tweets File
  
  Caricato il 28/09/2023 21:11
- Le11 - Fri Nov 10, 2023 Project discussion with an emphasis on literature search: 1) Fast fashion fighters, 2) Israel war, 3) Wall-E, 4) Barbie, 5) Blacklivesmatter; 6) Kardashian.
- Le12 - Thu Nov 16, 2023 Project discussion with an emphasis on literature search: 1) Bodyshaming fropm fashion industry; 2) Miquela AI popstar; 3) Revocation of abortion right; 4) Climatechange: activism or alarmism.
- Le13 - Fri Nov 17, 2023 PageRank centrality: the random walk rationale; Teleportation; Pagerank versus degree; Examples; Local PageRank and topic specific PageRank; Examples of application.
- VIDEO: Le13 PageRank Kaltura Video Resource
- Le14 - Thu Nov 23, 2023 Community and topic detection; Conceptual picture of a network and its relation to Granovetter's theory; The core-periphery model; Overlapping communities; The Louvain algorithm; BERTopic; Using community detection: Topics, topics interdependencies and socio-psychological description; Projection of markers: an example.
- Le15 - Fri Nov 24, 2023 - 10:30 @ Aula magna, DEI, via Gradenigo 6/b Presentation of interdisciplinary projects to engineers/data scientists
  10:30 LoveYourSelf: bodyshaming from fashion industry
  10:35 Fast Fashion Fighters: Shein’s brand morality through the eyes of social media audiences
  10:40 popsTar: Miquela AI popstar and emotional impact on her audience
  10:45 Barbie: How has the Barbie Movie by Greta Gerwig influenced the discussion about feminism?
  10:50 Abortion Right: revocation of Abortion Right in USA (2022) and reaction of the public opinion
  10:55 PI: governments' stances versus public opinion on the Israel-Palestine conflict
  11:00 Blacklivesmatter: a semantic analysis on victimization and majority member activism
  11:05 Activism or Alarmism: mapping Climate Change discourse in social networks
  11:10 Study abroad: push and pull factors investigated through social networks
  11:15 Wall-E: ethical attitudes towards AI in dfferent countries
  11:20 Conclusions
  11:25 Event in memory of Giulia Cecchettin, with the Rector and many authorities, right outside the hall room
- VIDEO: Le15 IP day Nov 24, 2023 Kaltura Video Resource
- Le16 - Thu Nov 30, 2023 Social influence, contagion, homophily, and polarization; Le Bon's social contagion; Homophily in peoples' networks according to different behaviours: distinguishing homophily from contagion; Coviello's experiment on mood and weather as an example of contagion; Bond's example of contagion on elections through Facebook: 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.
- PAPER: Coviello et al, Detecting emotional contagion in massive social networks (2014) URL
- PAPER: Bond et al., A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization (2012) URL
- Le18 - Thu Dec 7, 2027 Feedback from IPs; Other centrality measures: betwenness, closeness, clustering coefficient; Wrap up on centrality measures.
- Translating networks: linking visualization to statistics URL
- Le19 - Thu Dec 14, 2023 IP projects feedback on socio-psychological markers
- Le20 - Fri Dec 15, 2023 Reddit Lab: how to scrape data from social networks by using R. by Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara
- Lab 1 - scraping data from reddit Cartella
  
  Link to video
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eTsmzzoTEQCDNG9sBbfLblXYUZ8XVtab/view?usp=sharing
- Le21 - Thu Dec 21, 2023 Gephi Lab: how to give networks a graphical representation through the open-source software Gephi https://gephi.org/. by Lejla Dzanko
- Lab 2 - visualizing networks with Gephi Cartella
  
  Link to video :
  
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eLlOa5cx7m_VaPsTMtdYFlbKGJxEhIVM/view?usp=sharing
- Le22 - Fri Dec 22, 2023 Polarisation, homophily, selective exposure; Echo chambers and filter bubbles; Examples. Sentiment analysys at a network and statistical level.
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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

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