CIP Online Social Networks: week 5 - social capital

Lecture slides for the Curriculum Innovation module Online Social Networks on the topic of social capital.

Social Networks and Small World phenomena

Social Networking tools like Facebook yield recognisable small world phenomena, that is particular kinds of social graphs that facilitate particular kinds of interaction and information exchange.

Social Networks and Actors

A discussion about Actor Network Theory

Graph Theory and Social Networks Tutorial

For COMP60

On social networks and game theory, some research problems

Seminar given as part of social networking course, to give a brief overview of some applied examples game theory used in social network simulation

CIP-OSN; Networks as Graphs

Curriculum Innovation Programme - Online Social Networks (UOSM2012) - Networks as Graphs

Networks 3: Social Structures

A brief look at the post-industrial, network society, freed from manual labour and liberated from place.

Renssellaer Institute. Jim Hendler. CSCI 4964/COMM 49652 – Web Science. Social Network

Social Networks on the World Wide Web - lecture by Dr. Jennifer Golbeck

TU Graz: Course: 707.000 Web Science and Web Technology: Lecture 4: Social Network Analysis

What are fundamental entities in social networks and what information is contained in social graphs? We will discuss some selected concepts in social network analysis, such as one- and two mode networks, prestige and centrality, and cliques, clans and clubs. Readings: Web tool predicts election results and stock prices, J. Palmer, New Scientist, 07 February (2008) [Protected Access] Optional: Social Network Analysis, Methods and Applications, S. Wasserman and K. Faust (1994)

Communities and the Web

What is a social network? How does an online community differ from a real world community? See also: Anne Hornsby, 'Surfing the net for community: a Durkheimian analysis of electronic gatherings' ch.3 in Peter Kivisto (ed.) Illuminating Social Life (3rd ed 2005). Libr ref HM51KIV. Graham Crow and Catherine Maclean, 'Community' in Geoff Payne (ed.) Social Divisions (2nd ed. 2006) HM821PAY.