MCSN 2019 assignments
short link: http://bit.ly/mcsn19a
The assignment schedule itself will be developed as the course progresses, in consultation with students and according to student feedback. Please check back often. New assignments will be posted the previous week.
Books
The following abbreviations are used to indicate books for readings in the table below. All readings are online; most are available on Rutherford Reserve and several are also at the SUB bookstore. (For additional sources see http://bit.ly/mcsn19)
- ESNAP: Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, and Vladimir Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek, 3rd edition. (Cambridge University Press, 2018). (Available online and in the SUB bookstore.) To be read in conjunction with the free SNA software package Pajek (which was created for PCs but also runs fine on Macs; installation instructions for Mac are here). Please download the datasets; you'll need to work with them as you read the text.
- Crossley: Nick Crossley, Siobhan McAndrew, Paul Widdop, eds. Social networks and music worlds.
- Barabási: Albert-László Barabási, Network Science
- McLean: Paul McLean, Culture in Networks
- Nowak: Raphaël Nowak, Andrew Whelan, editors, Networked music cultures : contemporary approaches, emerging issues
Remember that all assignments are to be submitted via eClass (http://bit.ly/mcsn19e) - not by email or hardcopy. (On eClass you'll find a single submission link for each day.) They are due before class on the day assigned (e.g. by 11 am). Late assignments will be downgraded. Please see syllabus on http://bit.ly/mcsn19 for the details.
Schedule
| Week | Date | Topic | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 03-Sep | Introductions and SN exercise. Intro to MCSN as Ethnomusicology. Social structure, social networks, SNA. Examples in music culture. Course mechanics: 3 streams (SNA, readings, project). Tools: course wiki, eClass, Pajek, readings, reading reviews, quizzes, assignments. | 05-Sep | Read: Crossley ch. 1; skim Barabasi ch. 1. Submit: Barabasi ch. 1 homework, but applied to MUSIC networks. Submit: About Me. (all submissions on eClass: http://bit.ly/mcsn19e) |
| 2 | 10-Sep | Read ESNAP prefaces & ch. 1, completing all the exercises as you go (don't worry if you don't understand something; we'll discuss). Also read Crossley ch. 2 | 12-Sep | Quiz #1: SNA basics. Read: Crossley, ch. 3, and submit review. |
| 3 | 17-Sep | 19-Sep | Discussion: your project ideas. | |
| 4 | 24-Sep | 26-Sep | ||
| 5 | 01-Oct | 03-Oct | Submit: project proposal draft. | |
| 6 | 08-Oct | 10-Oct | Quiz #2. | |
| 7 | 15-Oct | Submit: project proposal rewrite. | 17-Oct | |
| 8 | 22-Oct | Submit: annotated project bibliography. | 24-Oct | |
| 9 | 29-Oct | 31-Oct | Submit: project paper outline. | |
| 10 | 05-Nov | 07-Nov | Quiz #3. | |
| 11 | 12-Nov | No class (Reading Week) | 14-Nov | No class (Reading Week) |
| 12 | 19-Nov | 21-Nov | ||
| 13 | 26-Nov | Student presentations | 28-Nov | Student presentations |
| 14 | 03-Dec | Student presentations | 05-Dec | Student presentations. Last day of class. |
| 15 | 10-Dec | 12-Dec | ||
| 16 | 17-Dec | Final paper due | 19-Dec |