Posts Tagged ‘Mixed methods’
I am going to give another one-day workshop on Introduction to Social Network Analysis in a couple of weeks time -more precisely on Monday, 14th January, at the University of Greenwich, London, as part of a Winter School for researchers and PhD students in social science, management and economics, dedicated to Analytical Software. The rationale […]
Filed under: Business networks, Social networks, Social science methodology | 1 Comment
Tags: Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Mixed methods, Personal networks, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Web-based social networks
I was yesterday at the Just-in-Time-Sociology (JITSO) workshop in Lausanne (oh, how I still like this town, after such a long time!). JITSO was a small-scale, nice and friendly event for like-minded social researchers, who feel the urge to use their baggage of theories and techniques to provide science-informed responses to today’s fast-paced social, political […]
Filed under: Internet and social media, Research, Social science methodology, Sociology | 1 Comment
Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Mixed methods, Public policy analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web
On 14th December 2012, the French National Library (BNF, Bibliothèque Nationale de France) in Paris will host the ANR ANAMIA symposium “Understanding Pro-Ana: Body, Networks and Nutrition” (Comprendre le phénomène pro-ana : corps, réseaux, alimentation). Presentations will be in French (see program here). An English summary is available here. Attendance is free of charge but […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Web-based social networks, Well-being
What does economics have to do with riots, some may think: isn’t economics all about markets, employment and inflation? Well, the answer is NO under many respects. It is no mere coincidence that a resurgence of mass protest has accompanied the recent financial turmoil and austerity measures in many countries – from anti-government demonstrations in […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Civil violence, Economic analysis, economic methodology, Mixed methods, Public policy analysis, Social simulation, social theory, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks
Yesterday at the annual conference of British Sociological Association, I presented the latest results of the work I am doing with Antonio A. Casilli on the “End-of-Privacy” hypothesis and social media. Our presentation is accessible here. The boundaries between public and private are moving, all the more so in the Web 2.0 era -and we […]
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Tags: Agent-based models, Ethnography, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web, Web-based social networks
I had a great time at the Doctoral Summer School on “Network society and social networks” that took place earlier this month in the wonderful setting of Porquerolles, a little heavenly island off France’s Mediterranean coast. Co-organised by Institut Télécom and EHESS, two major higher education institutions in France and bringing together PhD students from […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Civil violence, Dr Antonio A. Casilli, Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Networks and Markets, Social simulation, Web-based social networks
Here it is -the presentation I gave last Thursday at the XXXI Sunbelt, the Annual Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis at St Pete Beach. I focused on the fieldwork methodology, especially the conception of our web-based survey including a participant-aided sociogram drawing tool. In practice, it is a way for us […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Social science data, Web-based social networks
Yesterday, a gave a talk on “Studying eating disorders in the social web: A network analysis approach” at the University of Oxford,as part of a seminar series on social network analysis organised by Nuffield College and the Oxford Internet Institute. Wonderful place, peaceful and relaxing atmosphere, conducive to thinking and reflecting. Nice people, constructive comments, […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Obesity, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Social science data, social theory, Web, Web-based social networks
My presentation with Antonio on “An ethno-computational approach to friendship in a SNS” is online here. We gave it this morning at the Sunbelt XXX conference. Many thanks to all those who attended and emailed or twitted comments and remarks!
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Tags: Agent-based models, Ethnography, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Qualitative data, Web-based social networks
Antonio has presented our work on pro-ana online communities last Tuesday at the London School of Economics. The slides and some additional bibliographic references are available here.
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Tags: Agent-based models, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Web-based social networks
