MCSN Thursday,08-Sep-11

• 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)
  • 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