Course: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2025-2026

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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - C. SUITNER, T. ERSEGHE

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Lecture hours (starting Oct 2, 2025)
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 Le1 - Thu Oct 2, 2025 Introduction to the course, ...
  
  Le1 - Thu Oct 2, 2025 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
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  Le2 - Thu Oct 9, 2025 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.
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- Select activity PAPER: Mehrpour 2025 British J Social Psychol - Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch 1990 2020
  
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- Select activity PAPER: The rise of# climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement: A semantic network analysis
  
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- Select activity BOOK: John P Scott - Social Network Analysis A Handbook (2000, SAGE Publications)
  
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  Le3 - Fri Oct 10, 2025 Brainstorming session on project topics and group forming.
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  After the lecture your should be able to identify your topic and your team mates. Please, fill in the form
- Select activity Le4 - Thu Oct 16, 2025 Networks as graphs; Directe...
  
  Le4 - Thu Oct 16, 2025 Networks as graphs; Directed and undirected networks; Examples; Weighted and signed graphs; Weighted and signed graphs; The adjacency matrix: symmetries and conventions; Sparsity; Distances.
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  Le5 - Fri Oct 17, 2025 Small world, Connectivity, Bridges; Bipartite graphs; Projections; 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 power-law with preferential attachment and attactiveness.
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  Le6 - Thu Oct 23, 2025 Network of People, my personal network; ; Social capital, Entativity, Ostracism, Cohesion, Borokerage, Granovetter's weak tie theory, Weak ties, bridges, and structural holes, Efficient and effective networks.
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- Select activity PAPER: Aggressive Behavior - 2014 - Wölfer - Social influence and bullying behavior Intervention‐based network dynamics of the
  
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  Le7 - Fri Oct 24, 2025 Project ideas presentations: 1) Perception of AI, 2) Jeff Bezos and inequalities, 3) Elections polarization, 4) Taylor Swift and deep fakes, 5) Barbenheimer.
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  Le8 - Thu Oct 30, 2025 Project ideas presentation: 6) K-pop soft power, 6) Charlie Kirk and online political discourse.
  
  Network of people: sampling methods; example a research project on the relation between personality and productivity, via structural fetaures.
  
  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
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  Le9 - Fri Oct 31, 2025 Semantic networks: Issues about text retrieval, mining, and coding; Overview of properties coded with LIWC dictionary.
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  Semantic network; data cleaning, network construction; trasformation of text into data (dictionaries, automatic coding, handcoding)
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  Le11 - Fri Nov 7, 2025 Projects discussion: 3) K-pop, 4) Barbieheimer, 5) Artificial intelligence, 6) Charlie Kirk, 7) Elections polarization.
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  Le12 - Thu Nov 13, 2025 Linguistic inquiry word count - LIWC; 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.
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- Select activity Le13 - Fri Nov 14, 2025 Using community detection:...
  
  Le13 - Fri Nov 14, 2025 Using community detection: topics interdependencies; BERTopic; Extracting sentiment: LIWC versus machine learning large language models; The BERTAgent example; How AI machines work with language: understanding ChatGPT.
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  Le14 - Mon Nov 17, 2024 - 8:30am @ Classroom Ce, DEI, via Gradenigo 6/b Presentation of interdisciplinary projects to engineers/data scientists
  
  8:30 Intro,
  8:35 Barbienheimer
  8:45 Framing AI-generated celebrity deepfakes,
  8:55 Jeff Bezos wedding and the display of wealth and luxury,
  9:05 K-pop soft power,
  9:15 Polarization effects in the disinformation on immigration,
  9:25 Enthusiasm and skepticism towards AI,
  9:35 Charlie Kirk's assassination,
  9:45 Discussion and group forming,
  10:00 End.
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  Le15 - Fri Nov 20, 2025 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.
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- Select activity PAPER: Coviello et al, Detecting emotional contagion in massive social networks (2014)
  
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- Select activity PAPER: Bond et al., A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization (2012)
  
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- Select activity Le16 - Thu Nov 27, 2025 Polarisation, homophily, s...
  
  Le16 - Thu Nov 27, 2025 Polarisation, homophily, selective exposure; Echo chambers and filter bubbles; Examples; Polarisation in pro-life/pro-choice networks; Assortative and disassortative networks; Robustness.
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  Le17 - Fri Nov 28, 2025 The CAN (Causal Attitude Network) model conceptualizes attitudes as networks consisting of evaluative reactions and interactions between these reactions; Correlation networks.
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  Le18 - Thu Dec 4, 2025 IP projects feedback; PageRank centrality: the random walk rationale; Teleportation; Pagerank versus degree; Collective action and network robustness to removal
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- Select activity Translating networks: linking visualization to statistics
  
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- Select activity Le19 - Fri Dec 5, 2025 Reddit Lab: how to scrape d...
  
  Le19 - Fri Dec 5, 2025 Reddit Lab: how to scrape data from social networks by using R. by Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara
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- Select activity Le20 - Thu Dec 11, 2025 Gephi Lab: how to give net...
  
  Le20 - Thu Dec 11, 2025 Gephi Lab: how to give networks a graphical representation through the open-source software Gephi https://gephi.org/. by Lejla Dzanko
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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2025-2026

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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - C. SUITNER, T. ERSEGHE

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