Designing Online Marketplaces

Susan Athey delivered this talk on May 8, 2015 at the Institute for Social Sciences conference series Leading Research in the Social Sciences Today. Athey is the economics of technology professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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

Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed A New American

G. Cristina Mora delivered this talk on April 24, 2015 at the Institute for Social Sciences conference series Leading Research in the Social Sciences Today. Mora is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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 and...

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From: UC Davis Institute for Social Sciences

Related topics : social science network research

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

Talking Social Network Analysis with Dr. John Cowan

In this episode, I interview Dr. John Cowan, Senior Research Associate, Division of Outreach, Engagement, and Regional Development at Northern Illinois University. The focus of the interview is social network analysis.

If you want to jump right to social network analysis, go to 5:49 in the video.

The interview begins with Dr. Cowan discusses how he became involved in social network analysis. During this discussion, he describes what social network analysis is. Dr. Cowan provides several...

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From: Tim Green

Related topics : social network analysis examples / analysis of social networking sites

Christian Sandvig: Future Social Science On and With Digital Media

What it means to study society is profoundly changing as we are increasingly surrounded by and incorporated into a pervasive network of digital media. In this panel, five scholars will comment for five minutes each on emerging research problems, opportunities, and methods in social science both with and about digital media. Topics will include computational (or e-) social science, new forms and genres of social media, new methods and tactics, legal obstacles to transformative research, and...

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From: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Related topics : social media in education research / social science network research

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek | Ebook

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http://blon.us/f/b009019rc2

An extensively revised and expanded second edition of the successful textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications and network analysis using Pajek. The main structural concepts and their applications in social research are introduced with exercises. Pajek software and data sets are available so readers can learn network analysis through application and case studies. Readers will have the knowledge, skill and tools to...

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From: Haywood Coyne

Related topics : exploratory social network analysis with pajek / structure of social networks / social networking visualization software / social networking research

A Tale of Two Networks: Women, Social Media, & Sustainability

The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Seminar

presented by

Dr. Gillian Bowser

Research Scientist, Colorado State University

Sustainability, social media, and women are a unique combination. How do people network around concepts of sustainability, and what is the role of social media and social networks in particular? The Global Women Scholars Research Network uses the platform of the Commission for Sustainable Development, Rio+20 to look at how women network around a...

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From: sesync annapolis

Related topics : social media network / global social networking / social networking research / social media research / social media audience engagement

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

Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks

Interdisciplinary team describes new initiatives and research directions

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From: Cornell University

Related topics : social science network research

Science Communication in Popular Media by Michele Catanzaro - part I

It is a lecture on how to write articles for Popular Media related to research on social science and environmental sciences. Michele Catanzaro, science journalist, gives this course designed for Phd students and young researchers. This is the second lecture of the 3rd SIC course Effective Communication Strategies organized by ICTA-UAB under the FP7-Marie Curie project The European Network of Political Ecology; Barcelona, 30 June -04 July 2014.

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From: PoliticalEcology.eu

Related topics : social science network research / articles about social media communication