Alexander Semenov - Recent Advances in Social Network Analysis

Recent Advances in Social Network Analysis:What Does “S” in SNA Stand For?

Alexander Semenov(Social | Network | Data) Analyst

http://jarens.rusemenoffalex@gmail.com

AT A DECENT ACADEMIC LISTSERVE…

Once upon a time

Couple of e-mails later…

… and what’s the difference?

Different books

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• Social Network Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

• Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

• Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

• Social Network Analysis: A Handbook

• Social and Economic Networks• Networks, Crowds, and Markets:

Reasoning About a Highly Connected World

• Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks

• Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means

• Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Open Market Edition)

• Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

Different journals

Network Science is a new journal for a new discipline - one using the network paradigm, focusing on actors and relational linkages, to inform research, methodology, and applications from many fields across the natural, social, engineering and informational sciences. Given growing understanding of the interconnectedness and globalization of the world, network methods are an increasingly recognized way to research aspects of modern society along with the individuals, organizations, and other actors within it.

The discipline is ready for a comprehensive journal, open to papers from all relevant areas. Network Science is a defining work, shaping this new discipline. The journal welcomes contributions from researchers in all areas working on network theory, methods, and data.

Social Networks is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly. It provides a common forum for representatives of anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science and other disciplines who share an interest in the study of the empirical structure of social relations and associations that may be expressed in network form. It publishes both theoretical and substantive papers. Critical reviews of major theoretical or methodological approaches using the notion of networks in the analysis of social behaviour are also included, as are reviews of recent books dealing with social networks and social structure.

Different Authors

… from different disciplines

Different articles… even on the same topic

http://blogs.iq.harvard.edu/netgov/2011/03/report_from_annsonicnico_confe.html

Citations of articles about “small-world”

10

Different dataCompanies then Companies now

Still the same methods, really?

Results might be offensive

Social graph revealing Facebook friendship associations between self–identified gay male students in the MIT network.

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2611/2302

Gaydar: Facebook friendships expose sexual orientation

… dangerous“Drug Marketers Use Social Network Diagrams to Help Locate Influential Doctors”

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/16/business/PHARMA.html?_r=2&

and just stupidBossaert, Goele, and Nadine Meidert. "" We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided'. A dynamic analysis of the peer support networks in the Harry Potter books." Open Journal of Applied Sciences (2013).

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/389499/1/Bossaert+%26+Meidert+2013.pdf

"...We hope this study adds to the current knowledge on peer support in adolescence and promotes the use of social theories and methods in literacy research."

Excuse me, but isn’t this section about money and business?

Message 1: Keep It Simple, Stupid!

Initial groups Inter-group connections Clustering

New Groups

36%57%

Application of Social Network Analysis in Study Groups Formation

Average score change

SNA-based “Usual”

Don’t believe me? Ask these guys!Nicholas Christakis Malcolm Gladwell

Message 2: Lets cooperate

Shall we?

So, what do you think?

Alexander Semenovhttp://jarens.ru

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