Microfinance and Changes in Networks of Advice and Favor Exchange in Rural Villages

Matthew Jackson delivered this keynote talk on May 8, 2015 at the Institute for Social Sciences conference series Leading Research in the Social Sciences Today. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University.

The 2015 ISS conference series showcased world-class research by social scientists across UC Davis and by top researchers from across the country. Each day of the conference focused on a unique aspect of inquiry, including people in societies, perceptions...

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From: UC Davis Institute for Social Sciences

Related topics : social science network research

Social Network Analysis

Mathematica provides state-of-the-art functionality for analyzing and synthesizing graphs and networks. One application of the new functionality is social network analysis. In this talk from the Wolfram Technology Conference 2011, Charles Pooh, a Senior Kernel Developer at Wolfram Research, explains the background of network analysis and basic concepts of network analysis with Mathematica.

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From: Wolfram

Related topics : social network analysis application / analysis of social networking / social networking research

Numbers of elderly people in Japan on social media rising

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A new study has shown that senior citizens in Japan are becoming more and more likely to be using social media than in previous years.

Compared to last year, for example, when 19% of those aged between 60 and 64 used Line, 30% of the same age group now use the social network.

The research, from Video Research Ltd, has also shown substantial growth in all groups aged up to 74, at which age 10% of respondents use Line.

The survey also found that...

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From: Webcertain TV

Related topics : using social media for marketing research / social media network marketing / social networking research

Emergence of social networks via reciprocity and reputation

Visualisation of emergent social network that arises through the interaction of direct and indirect reciprocity. This accompanies the paper "Emergence of social networks via direct and indirect reciprocity", S. Phelps, 2012, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (forthcoming). A working-paper version of this is downloadable at:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/ccfea/research/WorkingPapers/2012/CCFEA-WP055-12.pdf

The model was simulated using the Java Agent-Based Modeling (JABM)...

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From: Steve Phelps

Related topics : social interaction network / social networking research paper

How social networks drive creativity: Katherine Giuffre at TEDxMileHigh

How do communities spark creativity? Social network researcher Katherine Giuffre shares what she learned studying what was, at the time, arguably the most creative culture in the world -- on an island in the South Pacific.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These...

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From: TEDx Talks

Related topics : social community network

Prof. Mike Thelwall: "Expressing and not Expressing Sentiment in Social Media"

This talk describes methods to detect sentiment strength in social web texts using the free software SentiStrength and describes its application to social science research problems through sentiment analysis of text in the social web. SentiStrength gives researchers a fast way to detect sentiment and therefore makes it possible to run large scale analyses of texts to detect patterns of sentiment changes over time and across different contexts. The talk describes an investigation into millions...

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From: Universität Göttingen

Related topics : sentiment analysis social network / social media software free / research social media / social media analysis free / social networking research

Do Your Online Friends Make You Pay?

Is peer influence at play in large-scale online social networks? That was a question Carlson School of Management Professor Ravi Bapna and Assistant Professor Akhmed Umyarov explored in their research into consumer social network behavior.

The pair attempted to uncover whether the primary driver of correlated behavior is peer influence or homophily, which is the tendency of people to associate with like-minded individuals.

Learn more at http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty-research.

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From: Carlson School of Management

Related topics : schools and online social networking / social network research questions

Social Behaviour and Network Therapy for Alcohol Problems | Ebook

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Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2010 Bma Medical Books Awards!this book serves as a manual for clinicians working with people with alcohol problems. The manual is based on previous research in addiction treatment, including family and social network interventions, as well the authors' own work developing and evaluating Social Behaviour and Network Therapy (sbnt) for example in the United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial...

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From: Mac Butts

Related topics : social behaviour and network therapy for alcohol problems / social networking research

Research paper on Social Media Marketing.

http://www.TEdib.com/search/tutorial/133/Social%20Media%20Marketing The social media marketing is the one that is the process of attention through the social media websites and they share the social networks. The social media is the also the platform that can easily accessible to anyone person by doing internet access. The marketing land is....... Ask your own questions at http://www.TEdib.com

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From: TEdib.com

Related topics : social media marketing research paper / social media social media

Radian6 Webinar: Turning Social Media Monitoring Into Social Media Research with Tom Webster

In this webinar recorded May 03, 2012, Tom Webster, VP of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research walked through his methods of deciphering social media research and turning data into insight. Tom has nearly 20 years of market research and consumer behavior experience, and leads Edison's new media, technology and social practices. Tom's company, Edison, is a custom market research agency known best as the sole providers of exit polling data for all major U.S. news networks during elections...

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From: radian6

Related topics : social media monitoring for market research / social media market research companies / webinar on social media marketing / social media monitoring companies / social media marketing agency