Cours : SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2024-2025

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

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - PROF. ERSEGHE & SUITNER

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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- 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) Fichier
  
  Déposé le 2 oct. 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 Fichier
  
  Déposé le 11 oct. 24, 11:43
- PAPER: Granovetter's strength of weak ties (1973) Fichier
  
  Déposé le 2 oct. 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 Fichier
  
  Déposé le 25 oct. 24, 10:06
- 25.10.24 literature search Fichier
  
  Déposé le 25 oct. 24, 10:07
- 25.10.24 litertature search Fichier
  
  Déposé le 25 oct. 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.
- Upload your IP presentation here! URL
- Le10 - Thu 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 Fichier
  
  Déposé le 13 nov. 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 Fichier
  
  Déposé le 14 nov. 24, 10:14
- fong-et-al-2021-the-language-of-conspiracy-a-psychological-analysis-of-speech-used-by-conspiracy-theorists-and-their Fichier
  
  Déposé le 14 nov. 24, 10:14
- DATA: LIWC data example - Maneskin tweets Fichier
  
  Déposé le 2 oct. 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 Fichier
  
  Déposé le 3 déc. 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 - Wed Dec 4, 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, topics interdependencies and socio-psychological description; Projection of markers: an example.
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