In March, 2010 I had the pleasure of attending and speaking in Segovia, Spain at the IE University Department of Communication at the symposium on Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. The symposium is organized with Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. I participated in a video interview with several [...]
The Twitter Chirp conference attracted tweets from many technology leaders and bloggers. Here is a ranked list of the top most “between” people who tweeted the term “chirp” in the last day. A complete social network map, with edge thickness proportional to the number of network connections (follows, replies, mentions) that link the two participants [...]
The CHI 2010 conference is well underway in Atlanta this week and lots of people are tweeting the #CHI2010 hash tag. An updated NodeXL map of the connections among people who use the #CHI2010 tag is below: This is the network map of follows, replies, and mentions relationships among Twitter users who mentioned “CHI2010″ as [...]
Benefits This course provides an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and demonstrates through theory and practical case studies how it can be used in HCI (especially computer-mediated communication and CSCW) research and practise. This topic is of particular importance due to the popularity of social networking websites (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, MySpace etc.) and social computing. As people increasingly use online communities for social interaction, new methods are needed to study these phenomena. SNA is a valuable contribution to HCI research as it gives an opportunity to rigorously study the complex patterns of online communication.
Social network theory views a network as a group of actors who are connected by a set of relationships. Actors are often people, but can also be nations, organizations, objects etc. Social Network Analysis (SNA) focuses on patterns of relations between these actors. It seeks to describe networks of relations as fully as possible. This includes teasing out the prominent patterns in such networks, tracing the flow of information through them, and discovering what effects these relations and networks have on people and organizations. It can therefore be used to study network patterns of organizations, ideas, and people that are connected via various means in an online environment.
I will attend and speak at a symposium being heldMarch 24-25, 2010 at the IE University Department of Communication in Segovia, Spain. The topic is: Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. "The Symposium aims to generate discussion on cutting-edge ideas in…
There are hundreds of conferences sponsored by the ACM on almost every topic related to computing. In some cases the same person will publish a paper in more than one conference, creating a tie between them. Below is a network…
