Course: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2024-2025

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Lecture hours (starting Oct 3, 2024)
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 11 @ Complesso Beato Pellegrino

For those students that still have a VISA problem, please contact us ASAP via email, but you can join the lectures remotely from here https://unipd.zoom.us/s/89076502558
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- Select activity Slides of the course (will be updated)
  
  Slides of the course (will be updated) Folder
- Select activity Mid-course survey on the effectiveness and organisation of in-person teaching
  
  Mid-course survey on the effectiveness and organisation of in-person teaching Feedback
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- Select activity Area di testo e media
- Select activity Excel spreadsheet - SNA groups 2024
  
  Excel spreadsheet - SNA groups 2024 URL
- Select activity IP examples from past years
  
  IP examples from past years Folder
- 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
  
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- Select activity Le1 - Thu Oct 3, 2024 Introduction to the course, ...
  
  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
- Select activity Lecture 1: Introduction to the course
  
  Lecture 1: Introduction to the course Kaltura Video Resource
- Select activity Le2 - Fri Oct 4, 2024 Social cognition and social ...
  
  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.
- 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 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 Le3 - Thu Oct 10, 2024 Weighted and signed graphs;...
  
  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.
- Select activity BOOK: Network Science, by A.L. Barabasi
  
  BOOK: Network Science, by A.L. Barabasi URL
- Select activity Le4 - Fri Oct 11, 2024 Building my personal networ...
  
  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.
- Select activity SNA C3-11112024 sampling issues + indicators
  
  SNA C3-11112024 sampling issues + indicators File
  
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- Select activity PAPER: Granovetter's strength of weak ties (1973)
  
  PAPER: Granovetter's strength of weak ties (1973) File
  
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- Select activity Le5 - Thu Oct 17, 2024 Brainstorming session on pr...
  
  Le5 - Thu Oct 17, 2024 Brainstorming session on project topics and group forming.
- Select activity Le6 - Thu Oct 24, 2024 Centrality measures; Degree...
  
  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.
- Select activity Le7 - Fri Oct 25, 2024 Structural holes: Examplary...
  
  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
- Select activity personality-ntw-performance
  
  personality-ntw-performance File
  
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- Select activity 25.10.24 literature search
  
  25.10.24 literature search File
  
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  25.10.24 litertature search File
  
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- Select activity Le8 - Thu Oct 31, 2024 Project ideas presentations...
  
  Le8 - Thu Oct 31, 2024 Project ideas presentations: 1) Overtourism, 2) Trad wives, 3) Abortion, 4) Privacy.
- Select activity Le9 - Thu Nov 7, 2024 Project ideas presentation: ...
  
  Le9 - Thu Nov 7, 2024 Project ideas presentation: 5) Natural disaster and climate change, 6) Veganism.
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- Select activity Le10 - Fri Nov 8, 2024 Language and social cogniti...
  
  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;
- Select activity SNAC5 10 language and social cognition
  
  SNAC5 10 language and social cognition File
  
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- Select activity Le11 - Thu Nov 14, 2024 Semantic networks: Issues ...
  
  Le11 - Thu Nov 14, 2024 Semantic networks: Issues about text retrieval, mining, and coding; Overview of properties coded with LIWC dictionary.
- Select activity SNAC6 11 semantic networks
  
  SNAC6 11 semantic networks File
  
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- Select activity fong-et-al-2021-the-language-of-conspiracy-a-psychological-analysis-of-speech-used-by-conspiracy-theorists-and-their
  
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- Select activity DATA: LIWC data example - Maneskin tweets
  
  DATA: LIWC data example - Maneskin tweets File
  
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- Select activity Le12 - Fri Nov 15, 2024 Project discussion with an...
  
  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.
- Select activity Le13 - Thu Dec 21, 2024 Invited talk by Magda Form...
  
  Le13 - Thu Dec 21, 2024 Invited talk by Magda Formanowicz on Agency
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- Select activity Le14 - Fri Nov 22, 2024 - 16:30pm @ Classroom Ce, ...
  
  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.
- Select activity Le15 - Thu Nov 28, 2024 PageRank centrality: the r...
  
  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.
- Select activity Translating networks: linking visualization to statistics
  
  Translating networks: linking visualization to statistics URL
- Select activity Le16 - Fri Nov 29, 2024 Social influence, contagio...
  
  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.
- 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 Le17 - Thu Dec 5, 2024 Community and topic detecti...
  
  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.
- Select activity SNA T4-5 pagerank and communities
  
  SNA T4-5 pagerank and communities File
  
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- Select activity Le18 - Fri Dec 6, 2024 The CAN (Causal Attitude Ne...
  
  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.
- Select activity SNA C6 attitudes
  
  SNA C6 attitudes File
  
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- Select activity Le19 - Thu Dec 12, 2024 Feedback from IPs; Polaris...
  
  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;.
- Select activity NS Lab1a Reddit
  
  NS Lab1a Reddit File
  
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- Select activity NS Lab1b TikTok
  
  NS Lab1b TikTok File
  
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- Select activity NS Lab2c markers
  
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- Select activity Le20 - Fri Dec 13, 2024 Reddit Lab: how to scrape ...
  
  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
- Select activity Lab 1 - scraping data from Reddit
  
  Lab 1 - scraping data from Reddit Folder
- Select activity Le21 - Thu Dec 19, 2024 Gephi Lab: how to give net...
  
  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
- Select activity Lab 2 - visualizing networks with Gephi
  
  Lab 2 - visualizing networks with Gephi Folder
- Select activity democrats and republicans tweets
  
  democrats and republicans tweets File
  
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- Select activity Le22 - Fri Dec 20, 2024 IP projects feedback.
  
  Le22 - Fri Dec 20, 2024 IP projects feedback.
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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
  
  SNA06 Methodological insights Kaltura Video Resource
- 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
  
  SNA10/NS13 IPs presentations Kaltura Video Resource
- 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
  
  SNA15 Attitudes as network Kaltura Video Resource
- 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
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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2024-2025

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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - PROF. ERSEGHE & SUITNER

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