Ethnomusicology and social network analysis
Assignments
for Wed Sep 19th
(1) Read chapter 1 of Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) (ESNAP) by Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, and Vladimir Batagelj and try out Pajek.
Pajek is a free download: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/ It only works on Windows machines, so you'll have to have access to one. Hopefully you do already.
(2) optional: For an alternative intro, try Network Concepts.pdf Basic Network Concepts, by C. Kadushin
(3) also optional: browse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment
for Wed Sep 26th
Read chapters 1 and 2 of ESNAP, try out all examples with Pajek, and do all the exercises at the ends of the chapters. Correct them yourself and let me know if you have any problems. Have a look at the Dept of Music study we did a few years back. Think of a possible social network analysis project of your own: online data (for P) real-life data (for N). N should also start preparing an ethics application.
