SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2023-2024

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• Select section SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

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  SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

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  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

  
  

  • Select activity News forum about SNA

    

    News forum about SNA
  • Select activity Institutional page (contains short syllabus and useful info about SNA)

    

    Institutional page (contains short syllabus and useful info about SNA) URL
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  Course slides

  • Select activity SNA T1 introduction (updated 5/10)

    

    SNA T1 introduction (updated 5/10) File

    Modified 5/10/23, 12:27
  • Select activity SNA C1 intro to social network science

    

    SNA C1 intro to social network science File

    Uploaded 6/10/23, 09:56
  • Select activity SNA T2-3 graphs and degree (updated 27/10)

    

    SNA T2-3 graphs and degree (updated 27/10) File

    Modified 27/10/23, 09:42
  • Select activity SNA C2 network of people

    

    SNA C2 network of people File

    Uploaded 19/10/23, 11:46
  • Select activity SNA C3 sampling issues

    

    SNA C3 sampling issues File

    Uploaded 27/10/23, 09:58
  • Select activity SNA C4 literature search

    

    SNA C4 literature search File

    Uploaded 30/11/23, 10:10
  • Select activity SNA C5 semantic networks

    

    SNA C5 semantic networks File

    Uploaded 9/11/23, 10:15
  • Select activity SNA T4-5 pagerank and communities

    

    SNA T4-5 pagerank and communities File

    Uploaded 3/10/23, 16:35
  • Select activity SNA C6 social influence, contagion, homophily, and polarization;

    

    SNA C6 social influence, contagion, homophily, and polarization; File

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  • Select activity SNA C7 attitudes

    

    SNA C7 attitudes File

    Uploaded 1/12/23, 11:06
  • Select activity SNA T6-7 centralities and polarization

    

    SNA T6-7 centralities and polarization File

    Uploaded 3/10/23, 18:08
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  Interdisciplinary Projects

  • Select activity Excel spreadsheet - SNA groups 2023

    

    Excel spreadsheet - SNA groups 2023 URL
  • Select activity Area di testo e media

    
    
  • Select activity Presentations for the IP day Nov 24, 2023

    

    Presentations for the IP day Nov 24, 2023 URL
  • Select activity IP examples from past years

    

    IP examples from past years Folder
  • Select activity Google translate API

    

    Google translate API URL
  • Select activity Explaining access to online resources/social media

    

    Explaining access to online resources/social media URL
  • Select activity Available Twitter datasets from past years

    

    Available Twitter datasets from past years URL
  • Select activity Additional Twitter datasets available under request - by Lejla Dzanko

    

    Additional Twitter datasets available under request - by Lejla Dzanko File

    Uploaded 20/10/23, 09:16
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  • Select activity Le1 - Thu Oct 5, 2023 Introduction to the course, ...

    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

  • Select activity Le2 - Fri Oct 6, 2023 Social cognition and social ...

    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

  • Select activity PAPER: The rise of# climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis

    

    PAPER: The rise of# climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis URL
  • Select activity Le3 - Thu Oct 12, 2023 Networks as graphs; Directe...

    Le3 - Thu Oct 12, 2023 Networks as graphs; Directed and undirected networks; Examples; Weighted and signed graphs; The adjacency matrix: symmetries and conventions; Sparsity.

  • Select activity BOOK: Network Science, by A.L. Barabasi

    

    BOOK: Network Science, by A.L. Barabasi URL
  • Select activity Le4 - Thu Oct 19, 2023 Building my personal networ...

    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. 

  • Select activity PAPER: Granovetter's strength of weak ties (1973)

    

    PAPER: Granovetter's strength of weak ties (1973) File

    Uploaded 28/09/23, 21:11
  • Select activity Le5 - Fri Oct 20, 2023 Brainstorming session on pr...

    Le5 - Fri Oct 20, 2023 Brainstorming session on project topics and group forming. 

  • Select activity Le6 - Thu Oct 26, 2023 Bipartite graphs; Projectio...

    Le6 - Thu Oct 26, 2023 Bipartite graphs; Projections; Centrality measures; Degree for undirected and directed networks; Average degree; Authorities and hubs; Degree distribution.
    

  • Select activity Le7 - Fri Oct 27, 2023 Log-log plot of the degree ...

    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.

  • Select activity BOOK: John P Scott - Social Network Analysis A Handbook (2000, SAGE Publications)

    

    BOOK: John P Scott - Social Network Analysis A Handbook (2000, SAGE Publications) File

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  • Select activity Le8 - Thu Nov 2, 2023 Proect ideas presentations: ...

    Le8 - Thu Nov 2, 2023 Proect ideas presentations: 1) Fast fashion fighters, 2) Israel war, 3) Wall-E, 4) popsTar, 5) Barbie, 6) Blacklivesmatter.
  • Select activity Le9 - Fri Nov 3, 2023 Project ideas presentation: ...

    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

  • Select activity Le10 - Thu Nov 9, 2023 Semantic networks; linguist...

    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.

  • Select activity DATA: LIWC data example - Maneskin tweets

    

    DATA: LIWC data example - Maneskin tweets File

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  • Select activity Le11 - Fri Nov 10, 2023 Project discussion with an...

    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.

    
    

  • Select activity Le12 - Thu Nov 16, 2023 Project discussion with an...

    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.
    

  • Select activity Le13 - Fri Nov 17, 2023 PageRank centrality: the r...

    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.
    

  • Select activity VIDEO: Le13 PageRank

    

    VIDEO: Le13 PageRank Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity Le14 - Thu Nov 23, 2023 Community and topic detect...

    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.
    

  • Select activity Le15 - Fri Nov 24, 2023 - 10:30 @ Aula magna, DEI,...

    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
    

  • Select activity VIDEO: Le15 IP day Nov 24, 2023

    

    VIDEO: Le15 IP day Nov 24, 2023 Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity Le16 - Thu Nov 30, 2023 Social influence, contagio...

    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.

  • Select activity PAPER: Coviello et al, Detecting emotional contagion in massive social networks (2014)

    

    PAPER: Coviello et al, Detecting emotional contagion in massive social networks (2014) URL
  • Select activity PAPER: Bond et al., A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization (2012)

    

    PAPER: Bond et al., A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization (2012) URL
  • Select activity Le18 - Thu Dec 7, 2027 Feedback from IPs; Other ce...

    Le18 - Thu Dec 7, 2027 Feedback from IPs; Other centrality measures: betwenness, closeness, clustering coefficient; Wrap up on centrality measures. 
    

  • Select activity Translating networks: linking visualization to statistics

    

    Translating networks: linking visualization to statistics URL
  • Select activity Le19 - Thu Dec 14, 2023 IP projects feedback on so...

    Le19 - Thu Dec 14, 2023 IP projects feedback on socio-psychological markers
    

  • Select activity Le20 - Fri Dec 15, 2023 Reddit Lab: how to scrape ...

    Le20 - Fri Dec 15, 2023 Reddit Lab: how to scrape data from social networks by using R. by Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara
    

  • Select activity Lab 1 - scraping data from reddit

    

    Lab 1 - scraping data from reddit Folder

    Link to video 

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eTsmzzoTEQCDNG9sBbfLblXYUZ8XVtab/view?usp=sharing
    

  • Select activity Le21 - Thu Dec 21, 2023 Gephi Lab: how to give net...

    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
    

  • Select activity Lab 2 - visualizing networks with Gephi

    

    Lab 2 - visualizing networks with Gephi Folder

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    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eLlOa5cx7m_VaPsTMtdYFlbKGJxEhIVM/view?usp=sharing
    

  • Select activity Le22 - Fri Dec 22, 2023 Polarisation, homophily, s...

    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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  Video lectures from past years

  • Select activity SNA01 Introduction

    

    SNA01 Introduction Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA02 Socio-cognitive perspective to network science

    

    SNA02 Socio-cognitive perspective to network science File

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  • Select activity SNA03 Graphs

    

    SNA03 Graphs Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA04 Define the problem

    

    SNA04 Define the problem Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA06 Methodological insights

    

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  • Select activity SNA07 IPs presentations

    

    SNA07 IPs presentations Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA08 Pagerank

    

    SNA08 Pagerank Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA09 Semantic networks

    

    SNA09 Semantic networks Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA10/NS13 IPs presentations

    

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  • Select activity SNA11 Personality & network position

    

    SNA11 Personality & network position Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA12 Other centrality measures

    

    SNA12 Other centrality measures Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA13 Homophily

    

    SNA13 Homophily Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA 14 collective action type of network

    

    SNA 14 collective action type of network File

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  • Select activity SNA15 Attitudes as network

    

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  • Select activity SNA16 Community detection

    

    SNA16 Community detection Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA17 Projects discussion

    

    SNA17 Projects discussion Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA18 Persuasion

    

    SNA18 Persuasion Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA19 Twitter lab

    

    SNA19 Twitter lab Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity SNA20 Twitter and reddit

    

    SNA20 Twitter and reddit Kaltura Video Resource
  • Select activity GEPHY.mp4
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