This course is designed to quite literally ‘make a science’ out of something at the heart of society: social networks. Humans are natural network scientists, as we compute new network configurations ...

Social network analysis has emerged as a decisive framework for understanding how connections among individuals influence behaviours and outcomes in numerous domains ranging from public health to ...

The reliability of public polling has been under scrutiny since major electoral mispredictions in 2016 and 2020, when ...

The use of social network analysis to understand the growing connectivity and complexity in the world around us on different scales, ranging from small groups to the World ‘Wide Web. How we create ...

According to Nature News, a team of French researchers has used medieval documents to create the oldest detailed social network ever constructed. The mathematicians and computer scientists looked ...

Human Ecology Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, Special Issue: Generating Sustainability-Supporting Knowledge on Social Networks in the Governance and Management of Social–Ecological Systems (2020), pp. 103-146 ...

This seminar will provide graduate students an introduction to social network analysis. It is meant to be taken as a supplement to Sociology 323: Social Networks. That is, in addition to the readings ...

The American Sociologist publishes papers, comments, and other writings on topics of professional and disciplinary concern to sociologists. The contents examine intellectual, practical, and ethical ...

“Social media companies have never been much help when it comes to helping their users understand how content flows on their platforms. That makes it simultaneously more difficult and more important ...

Part 1 of this three-part series focuses on the strategies and technologies companies are employing to use online social networking as a marketing tool. With an attractive force akin to the massive ...