Most of the SNA articles i'm reading mainly focus on secondary datasets from twitter, facebook, instagram etc.
I've been trying to conduct some SNA research that would be a bit more "in-depth", but i'm running in a lot of problems (from non-anonymity to non-total coverage of networks) so I'd like to see if there are any fellow sociologists (economists, psychologists etc.) who have some more experience and would like to share it.
Links to interesting/useful articles or books are also welcome, but I'd prefer some real research experience.
Thanks!
Hi,
sry, only some references and names (since I use sna for analysing media content) the following book might be helpful: http://www.cambridge.org/at/academic/subjects/sociology/research-methods-sociology-and-criminology/mixed-methods-social-networks-research-design-and-applications (I found a quite good and instructive)
And maybe, Mireia Bolibar might be an interesting contact person. She has a lot of experience with doing sna. I think, she is on researchgate too, but at least, here is her profile: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=ZX-FmlYAAAAJ&hl=en
If you are looking for method-related courses, Dimitrios Christopoulos is teaching ECPR method courses on applied sna. Maybe, such a course might also be helpful. Moreover, he is working on sna for quite a long time: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitrios_Christopoulos2
Good luck with your research!
Thanks Stefan!
I'll make sure to check out the literature and contact Mireia and Dimitrios, it's always good to see how other researchers are faring with their projects.
To (kind of) return the favor, as I just saw your PhD project, you might want to get in contact with Paško Bilić, Ivo Furman, and Savaş Yıldırım, as they are currently investigating the media representation of the "migrant crisis" before and after the incidents in Köln and Paris. It might not be spot on regarding your research, but they could be of some help.
In any case, thanks again and good luck to you too!
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pasko_Bilic
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivo_Furman2
http://engr.bilgi.edu.tr/about-us/academic-staff/savas-yildirim/
Hi
This free on line book is a good start
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/
You could also look at Social Network Analysis a handbook by John Scott
Analyzing social Networks by Borgatti, Everett and Johnson
Doing Social Network Research by Garry Robins.
Note SNA was around way before social media sites and there are tons of examples of applications.
Hello Luka,
We have been doing social network analysis since before the WWW! We are practitioners of SNA -- not academics, but also do some research.
Many of our initial projects were based on data gathered on paper surveys inside organizations. More than half of our clients have provided data via surveys (usually online surveys recently).
Here is a review and "best practice" of some of our early work
http://orgnet.com/OrgNetMap.pdf
All of the projects in the above document were based on custom surveys, designed for each client organization. For more case studies see: http://orgnet.com/cases.html
Valdis
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