Course: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2024-2025 | Moodle Scienze umane

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    • Le1 - Thu Oct 3, 2024 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

    • Lecture 1: Introduction to the course Kaltura Video Resource

      Introduction to content and teaching methods

    • Le2 - Fri Oct 4, 2024 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. Networks as graphs; Directed and undirected networks; Examples; Weighted and signed graphs.

    • PAPER: The rise of# climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis URL
    • BOOK: John P Scott - Social Network Analysis A Handbook (2000, SAGE Publications) File
      Uploaded 2/10/24, 17:10

    • Le3 - Thu Oct 10, 2024 Weighted and signed graphs; The adjacency matrix: symmetries and conventions; Sparsity; Bipartite graphs; Projections; Distances, Small world, Connectivity, Bridges, Wooclap on project topics.

    • BOOK: Network Science, by A.L. Barabasi URL

    • Le4 - Fri Oct 11, 2024  Building my personal network; Selecting the data; Defining the network, network boundaries; Random sampling, reputational and positional/structural approaches; Social capital, Entativity, Ostracism, Cohesion, Borokerage, Granovetter's weak tie theory, Weak ties, bridges, and structural holes, Efficient and effective networks. 

    • SNA C3-11112024 sampling issues + indicators File
      Uploaded 11/10/24, 11:43
    • PAPER: Granovetter's strength of weak ties (1973) File
      Uploaded 2/10/24, 17:10

    • Le5 - Thu Oct 17, 2024 Brainstorming session on project topics and group forming. 

    • Le6 - Thu Oct 24, 2024 Centrality measures; Degree for undirected and directed networks; Average degree; Authorities and hubs; Degree distribution; Log-log plot of the degree distribution; Power-law and scale-free networks; Explaining the pwoer-law with preferential attachment and attactiveness.

    • Le7 - Fri Oct 25, 2024  Structural holes: Examplary of study linking personality, network and performance. 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

    • personality-ntw-performance File
      Uploaded 25/10/24, 10:06
    • 25.10.24 literature search File
      Uploaded 25/10/24, 10:07
    • 25.10.24 litertature search File
      Uploaded 25/10/24, 10:06
    • Le8 - Thu Oct 31, 2024 Project ideas presentations: 1) Overtourism, 2) Trad wives, 3) Abortion, 4) Privacy.

    • Le9 - Thu Nov 7, 2024 Project ideas presentation: 5) Natural disaster and climate change, 6) Veganism.

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    • Le10 - Fri Nov 8, 2024 Language and social cognition; linguistic cues of psychological processes and inter group relations: focus on linguistic abstraction, generic masculine, derogatory labels and reappropriation, order and primacy effect; 

    • SNAC5 10 language and social cognition File
      Uploaded 13/11/24, 18:10

    • Le11 - Thu Nov 14, 2024 Semantic networks: Issues about text retrieval, mining, and coding; Overview of properties coded with LIWC dictionary.

    • SNAC6 11 semantic networks File
      Uploaded 14/11/24, 10:14
    • fong-et-al-2021-the-language-of-conspiracy-a-psychological-analysis-of-speech-used-by-conspiracy-theorists-and-their File
      Uploaded 14/11/24, 10:14
    • DATA: LIWC data example - Maneskin tweets File
      Uploaded 2/10/24, 17:10

    • Le12 - Fri Nov 15, 2024 Project discussion with an emphasis on literature search: 1) Overtourism, 2) Trad wives, 3) Abortion, 4) Privacy, 5) Climate change, 6) Veganism.

    • Le13 - Thu Dec 21, 2024 Invited talk by Magda Formanowicz on Agency

    • Padova 2024 Formanowicz3 File
      Uploaded 3/12/24, 14:25

    • Le14 - Fri Nov 22, 2024 - 16:30pm @ Classroom Ce, DEI, via Gradenigo 6/b  Presentation of interdisciplinary projects to engineers/data scientists 

      16:30 Intro,

      16:35 Overtourism, 

      16:45 Trad wives, 

      16:55 Abortion, 

      17:05 Privacy,

      17:15 Climate change,

      17:25 Veganism,

      17:35 Discussion and group forming,

      18:00 End.

    • Le15 - Thu Nov 28, 2024 PageRank centrality: the random walk rationale; Teleportation; Pagerank versus degree; Examples; Local PageRank and topic specific PageRank; Examples of application; Other centrality measures: betwenness, closeness.

    • Translating networks: linking visualization to statistics URL

    • Le16 - Fri Nov 29, 2024 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

    • Le17 - Thu Dec 5, 2024 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 interdependencies.

    • SNA T4-5 pagerank and communities File
      Uploaded 5/12/24, 08:33

    • Le18 - Fri Dec 6, 2024 The CAN (Causal Attitude Network) model conceptualizes attitudes as networks consisting of evaluative reactions and interactions between these reactions; Correlation networks. 

    • SNA C6 attitudes File
      Uploaded 6/12/24, 09:59

    • Le19 - Thu Dec 12, 2024 Feedback from IPs; Polarisation, homophily, selective exposure; Echo chambers and filter bubbles; Examples; Polarisation in pro-life/pro-choice networks; Assortative and disassortative networks;. 

    • NS Lab1a Reddit File
      Uploaded 12/12/24, 11:27
    • NS Lab1b TikTok File
      Uploaded 12/12/24, 11:27
    • NS Lab2c markers File
      Uploaded 12/12/24, 11:27

    • Le20 - Fri Dec 13, 2024 Reddit Lab: how to scrape data from social networks by using R. by Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara

      Below are some important links and information to prepare for the lesson.

      Installing R and RStudio
      For the lesson, you will need to download and install both R and RStudio. 

      You can install R from https://cran.r-project.org/

      and RStudio https://posit.co/downloads/

      Please follow the instructions provided on these websites. If you encounter any issues during installation, feel free to contact me.

      Attention Mac Users
      While I’ve tested the code several times and it always works for me, I’ve noticed that Mac users sometimes encounter problems with R libraries that are difficult for me to troubleshoot since I’m not familiar with Apple products. I would like to ask all students, especially those using a Mac, to check if you can install and load the required R libraries, and try running the attached R script. This way, we can address any issues before the lesson. If something doesn’t work, please let me know as soon as possible.

      The R script is available in the course website for you to download.

      I look forward to seeing you all!
      Best regards,
      Gabriel

    • Lab 1 - scraping data from Reddit Folder

    • Le21 - Thu Dec 19, 2024 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 Folder
    • democrats and republicans tweets File
      Uploaded 19/12/24, 08:44

    • Le22 - Fri Dec 20, 2024 IP projects feedback.

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