SNA analysis of MCSN on the www

Website presentation and analysis

Everyone select one website to present this week from a social network analysis perspective:

• (a) How does the site work? What's its purpose and how is it organized?
• (b) what sorts of musical data does the site contain?
• (c) what kinds of networks can you extract from this site? Create one or two Pajek networks, together with partition, and vector.
• (d) what sorts of interesting questions then arise? (It's often instructive to create two such networks, and then ask: how do they differ, and why?)

You might like to examine websites that center on music (e.g. allmusic.com) or you could examine musical aspects of a more general-purpose site (e.g. facebook.com, amazon.com, reddit.com, delicious.com). Draw a network from your selected site, create some Pajek files, and think up some interesting research avenues you could take.

I've listed lots of ideas for you here. (see especially here)

Signup

Please sign up for websites by editing the following list (so that everyone chooses a different website to present):

Nadine

Alyssa www.bmi.com

Lauren www.allmusic.com

Chris

Perry

Geoff

Allison

Jeff

Kat

Jill

Raimundo

Chee Meng www.cami.com