Category: Social Networks

Special Journal Issue on Network Visualization

http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/issues/vizsymposium.html

4th Annual Political Networks Conference and Training, June 14-18, 2011

Please SAVE THE DATE on your calendar for the 4th Annual Political Networks Conference and Training to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 14-18, 2011.

The Conference and Training will be held at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and will be organized roughly as follows:

TRAINING June 14-16

June 14: Conceptual Introduction to Network Analysis (Beginner level)
June 15: Computer Applications in Network Analysis (R, Siena)
June 16: Specialized Topics in Network Analysis

CONFERENCE June 16-18

June 16, 5pm: Keynote Address and reception
June 17: First day of panels, plenary address, poster session
June 18: Second day of panels, plenary session, business meting

The Program Co-Chairs are Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago and Meredith Rolfe, University of Oxford.

The following people are serving on the local host committee:

Michael T. Heaney, Chair
Philip B. K. Potter, Co-Chair
Robert J. Franzese, Jr.
Elisabeth R. Gerber
William G. Jacoby

More details will be forthcoming in the fall.

Sincerely,

Michael


Michael T. Heaney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies & Political Science
University of Michigan
722 Dennison Building
500 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042

Cell phone: 202-236-3369
E-mail: mheaney@umich.edu
http://www.umich.edu/~mheaney/

Issue Networks and the Social Forum

http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/policy-issue-networks-in-the-american-left/

A Network of Friends, Lovers, and Family

http://laphamsquarterly.org/visual/charts-graphs/?page=78

Contraining Network Size on Facebook

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/fashion/30FACEBOOK.html?hp

7th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis

7th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis

September 15-17, 2010 @ EHT Zurich and University of Zurich

Keynotes: Prof. Thomas W. Valente, University of Southern California and Prof. Frans N. Stokman, University of Groningen

Workshops:
SIENA: Tom A.B. Snijders & Johan Koskinen, U of Oxford visone Ulrik Brandes & Jürgen Lerner, U of Konstanz Diffusion: Tomas W. Valente, U of Southern California

Submission deadline
June 1, 2010
www.asna.ch

Insider Trading Network

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/01/business/01galleon.html

Steven Strogatz writes about Balance Theory

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/the-enemy-of-my-enemy/?hp

The Network of Blogs Criticizing the NSF

See this recent post by David Lazer on how one of his studies became the focus of on-line political criticism: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2009/11/network_picture_of_attacks_on.html

Network Data for Download

Some sources of network data on the Web are as follows:

1. Zeev Maoz: http://psfaculty.ucdavis.edu/zmaoz/datasets.htm

2. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/data