Difference between revisions of "MCSN Thursday,08-Sep-11"

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Welcome
Course introduction
What is music culture? Broad definition:
- social: relations and practices of music
- semantic: discourses and meanings around music
- phenomenological: experiences and emotions in music
- sonic: musical form and content
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)
- Methods
  - Data collection
  - Data analysis
  - Statistical measures
  - Exploration vs hypothesis testing
  - Software: Pajek: download and install
- Ethics
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
- Social structure. Read Preface, p. 1, and sections 1.1 to 1.3.2.
- Graph theory exercises.

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 * Course introduction
 * What is music culture? Broad definition:
-** social: relations and practices
+** social: relations and practices of music
-** cultural:  discourses and meanings
+** semantic:  discourses and meanings around music
-** sonic
+** phenomenological:  experiences and emotions in music
+** sonic: musical form and content
 * What is a social network?
 * Issues in SNA
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 ** grading; late and missed work policies
 * Homework
+** Social structure. Read Preface, p. 1, and sections 1.1 to 1.3.2.
+** Graph theory exercises.