It depends on what you want to analyze. You will always have all the classic and hybrid disciplines, areas and fields to reflect and analyze on a study object.

Dear Gustavo,

if you have a background with political sciences I would recommend as an introduction:

David Knoke, 1990, Political Networks: The Structural Perspective; Cambridge University Press.

An excellent general introduction is:

Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust, 1994, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, Cambridge University Press.

Another excellent intrduction from a more economic perspective:

Ronald Burt, 1992, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition, Harvard University Press.

Kind regards, Volker

The first start with learning Machine learning, go through literature about social networks. This is generic, coz it depends on what exactly you want to do

Maybe start with simple exercises using NodeXL (free template for Microsoft Excel). Some basic introduction is available from codeplex

https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=nodexl

Useful article https://bit.ly/317t140

Hopefully the following publications could help:

• Heath, S., Fuller, A. and Johnston, B. (2009) Chasing shadows: defining network boundaries in qualitative social network analysis, Qualitative Research, 9, 5, pp. 645-661.
• Hollstein, B. (2011) Qualitative Approaches, in Scott, J. and Carrington, P.J. (eds.) The SAGE of Handbook of Social Network Analysis. London: SAGE Publications Inc., pp. 404-416.
• Löblich, M. and Pfaff-Rüdiger, S. (2011) Network analysis: A qualitative approach to empirical studies on communication policy, International Communication Gazette, 73, 7, pp. 630-647.
• Tichy, N. M., Tshman, M. L. and Fombrun, C. (1979) Social network analysis for organizations, Academy of management review, 4, 4, pp. 507-519.

I recommend this author. It is very interesting. @martin hilbert

https://www.martinhilbert.net/tag/books/

Scott, J. (1991). Social network analysis: A handbook. London: Sage Publications.

This website could be useful if you are interested in network models.

http://networksciencebook.com/

Thank you very much to all who took sometime to reply! I'll check some of the wonderful sources you have mentioned.

You might be interested in:

1. Savin-Baden, M., Gemma Tombs, and Tombs, G. 2017. Research methods for education in the digital age. Bloomsbury research methods for education. Bloomsbury Academic, London, New York.

2. Park, K.-J. and Yilmaz, A. 2010. Social Network Approach to Analysis of Soccer Game. In 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. IEEE, 3935–3938. DOI=10.1109/ICPR.2010.957.

GRANOVETTER, Mark S. (1973). "The strength of weak ties", en American Journal of Sociology; vol 78, nº 6.

If you want to see how social network analysis has been applied in the real world look through our web page of projects and cases... http://orgnet.com/stories.html

I recommend this: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/ " This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks" Hanneman and Riddle (2005).