Course: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2026-2027

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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - C. SUITNER, T. ERSEGHE

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Lecture hours (starting Oct 1, 2026)
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 1, 2026 Introduction to the course, ...
  
  Le1 - Thu Oct 1, 2026 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 - Fri Oct 2, 2026 Networks as graphs; Directed and undirected networks; Examples; Weighted and signed graphs; Weighted and signed graphs; The adjacency matrix: symmetries and conventions; Sparsity.
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  Le3 - Thu Oct 8, 2026 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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  Le5 - Thu Oct 15, 2026 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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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS 2026-2027

Section outline

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - C. SUITNER, T. ERSEGHE

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