This workshop will be a hands-on introduction to using NetLogo and its recently released networks extension as a tool to explore the social network data we create every day. Using data from Facebook, we will design, construct, and explore network models to make sense of the sometimes counter-intuitive methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA). The goal of this workshop is two fold: (1) to provid...

This paper summarises a longitudinal analysis of learning interactions occurring over three years among health professionals in an online social network. The study employs the techniques of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and statistical modeling to identify the changes in patterns of interaction over time and test associated structural network effects. SNA results indicate overall low participat...

Description A range of tools for social network analysis, including node and graph-level indices, structural distance and covariance methods, structural equivalence detection, p* modeling, and network visualization.

Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation and widespread adoption of a new class of information technologies, commonly known as social media. Researchers often rely on social network analysis (SNA) in attempting to understand these technologies, often without considering how the novel capabilities of social media platforms might affect the underlying theories of SNA, which were develo...

Objectives The aim of this paper is to report: a. The main applications of Social Network Analysis (SNA) in the study of community coalitions and inter-organizational networks; b. The structural indicators of the whole network related to coalition functions, and; c. The methods to identify subgroups within networks. Method We will use graph visualization and data from our own research to illust...

Social Network Analysis is attracting growing attention as social networking sites and their enabled applications transform and impact society. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of social network analysis state of the art research and practice. In the paper the authors’ first examine social networking and the core concepts and ingredients of social network analysis. Secondly, th...

................................................................................... 4 About the Authors ...................................................................... 4 Introduction .............................................................................. 5 Stakeholder Analysis ................................................................... 5 Social Network Analysis (SNA) ........

Social network analysis (SNA) has much to offer sociology. However, there is little consideration of SNA in contemporary sociological theory (CST) although SNA developed in parallel with the consolidation of CST in the 1960s and 1970s. SNA championed its distinctiveness as ‘structural analysis’. Nearly all current CST presents ‘structure versus agency’ as the crucial binary to differentiate mai...