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* MCSN: Applications to ethnomusicology (brainstorming) | * MCSN: Applications to ethnomusicology (brainstorming) | ||
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− | ** Wiki | + | ** [http://bit.ly/mcsn Wiki]: for lecture notes, your collective contributions |
+ | ** [https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/ Moodle]: for uploading assignments | ||
** Tuesdays: more lecturing, presenting material, answering questions. | ** Tuesdays: more lecturing, presenting material, answering questions. | ||
** Thursdays: more review, demos, discussions, brainstorming... | ** Thursdays: more review, demos, discussions, brainstorming... |
Revision as of 09:52, 7 September 2011
- Welcome
- Course introduction
- What is music culture? Broad definition:
- social: relations and practices
- cultural: discourses and meanings
- sonic
- What is a social network?
- Issues in SNA
- Theory of Graphs, and its applications to social groups
- What is a graph? Some terms.
- Node, vertex
- Link, edge, arc
- Social groups as graphs (social networks)
- What is a graph? Some terms.
- Methods
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Statistical measures
- Exploration vs hypothesis testing
- Software: Pajek: download and install
- Ethics
- Theory of Graphs, and its applications to social groups
- MCSN: Applications to ethnomusicology (brainstorming)
- Course mechanics:
- Wiki: for lecture notes, your collective contributions
- Moodle: for uploading assignments
- Tuesdays: more lecturing, presenting material, answering questions.
- Thursdays: more review, demos, discussions, brainstorming...
- Self-guided days
- Pajek: practice makes perfect
- participation, including attendance, and demos (Thurs).
- chapter exercises, questions (due Thurs), assignments (due Tues)
- grading; late and missed work policies
- Homework