Posts Tagged ‘Web-based social networks’
Just as an additional part of my interview on data has come out on SFR Player, I am preparing to attend a major conference on data and statistics next week in Brussels, with participation of national statistical institutes from European and other countries. Official statisticians who mainly used to do surveys, now fully realize the […]
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Tags: Big data, Network Analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, social theory, Statistical modeling, Web-based social networks
I was interviewd by SFR PLAYER (an online magazine published by SFR, a major Telecom provider in France) on the changes induced by the use of big data in my work as a social science researcher. The video interview (in French) is available here. The same issue features an interview with danah boyd and various […]
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Tags: Big data, Quantitative methods, Small data, Social science data, Social simulation, Statistical data, Web-based social networks
The one-day workshop on “Introduction to Social Network Analysis” that I gave two weeks ago (wow, time flies…) at the University of Greenwich was a great satisfaction! A good audience of about 15 people (not too few, not too many), all very bright and nice. We had interesting and stimulating questions, and it was quite […]
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Tags: Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Network Analysis, Networks and Markets, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Web-based social networks
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 […]
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Tags: Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Mixed methods, Personal networks, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Web-based social networks
I have already mentioned our study ANAMIA, undertaken in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, social psychologists, philosophers, economists, and computer scientists in France and the UK. We look at the so-called “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” websites, blogs and forums (where “ana” and “mia” stand for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa), which have raised lively […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Sociology, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks, Well-being
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
Hello everyone, You have probably reached this page after listening to my talk on Mobs and mobiles – the “dark side” of social media in relation to the 2011 UK riots, which was broadcast yesterday on BBC Radio 3 as part of its transmission “The Essay“, in a 5-episode series entitled “At the speed of […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Civil violence, just-in-time-sociology, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web, Web-based social networks
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
Hello everyone, You have probably reached this page after reading an article about our study “Social Media Censorship in Times of Political Unrest – A Social Simulation Experiment with the UK Riots” (published in the journal Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, vol. 115, n. 1). This post will provide some background information. Read the study First […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Civil violence, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web, Web-based social networks
SNA, NS, CSS: what are we doing?
The rise of social media has brought a new life to the academic field of social network analysis (commonly referred to as SNA). Traditionally grounded in sociology with applications to neighbouring fields such as management and education, it has now expanded to a variety of other disciplines including economics, geography, psychology, science studies and even […]
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Tags: Network Analysis, Social science data, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks
