Application Deadline: March 30, 2018 The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, MD is accepting applications for an Introduction to Social Network Analysis Short Course. This 5-day short course, which will take place from July 16 - 20, 2018, will serve as an introduction to the theory and practice of social network analysis (SNA). Where standard statistical analysis assumes that observations on different entities (people, organizations, animals, etc.) are independent, SNA looks to the relationships among these observations to try to explain why this configuration of relationships might exist, or how this network structure explains other attributes of the network. While network science has a long tradition, this field has recently exploded with new data resources in social media and new computational methods, particularly in the application to socio- environmental systems.
Network Theory What is network data? What are the problems in collecting it? What kinds of questions can we use it to answer? How is it different from other data? Network Measures Structural & locational properties of actors/locations/resources (centrality, prestige, & prominence to determine popular resources, organizations, etc.), structural cohesion (subgroups & cliques), equivalence of actors (structural equivalence & block models to determine niche differentiation or social isomorphism), local analyses (dyadic & triadic analysis, brokerage to determine structural hierarchies and key resources or actors) Hypothesis Testing Matrix permutation tests, conditional uniform random graphs, network autocorrelation models, introduction to statistical global analyses (p1, p*, ERGMs, & their relatives), temporal models For questions, please contact Dr. Lorien Jasny at l.ja...@exeter.ac.uk Visit sesync.us/sna2018 to learn more and apply.
