MCSN Thursday,08-Sep-11
- Welcome
- Course introduction
- What is a social network?
- Issues in SNA
- Graph theory and applications to social groups
- Methods
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Statistical measures
- Exploration vs hypothesis testing
- Ethics
- Applications to ethnomusicology (brainstorming)
- Pajek: download and install
- Course mechanics:
- Wiki - Tuesdays: more lecturing, presenting material, answering questions - Thursdays: more review, demos, discussions, brainstorming... - Self-guided days - Pajek: importance of becoming familiar with this program - participation, including attendance, and demos (Thurs). - chapter exercises, questions (due Thurs), assignments (due Tues)