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d that the distinction between attributes and relations so often made in intro to networks contexts is not so clear an attribute is a node level variable so centrality and any other node level network concept is just another attribute this is surely true but it also a matter of semantics dan b prefers to use attribute in a more restricted way an attribute is a characteristic of an actor themselves and not of their location in their social environment such as their gender or attitude toward texting in contrast a node level network property is a characteristic of a node s position in the network and can change if a tie is added or lost anywhere in the network so gender and attitude are attributes while betweenness centrality is a node level property joe said this distinction is problematic because network processes can cause attributes for example a person s attitude is an attribute but it may have been formed as a result of contact with others with that attitude but in my view the fact that attributes and network properties can cause each other is not relevant to the conceptual distinction between them heat may cause fire but they are not the same thing the distinction here reminds me of the distinction between social networks and networks in general which also came up in class in my view it is useful to restrict the term social network to just those cases where the nodes are entities i e have agency i can define a network in which the nodes are words and the ties indicate whether a given pair of words co occurs in the same sentence in a given text but i d rather not call that a social network and i certainly don t want to apply social theory to it tags networks posted in uncategorized 14 comments political networks conference workshops january 31 2011 4th annual political networks conference and workshops call for papers the 4th annual political networks conference and workshops will be held june 14 18 2011 at the gerald r ford school of public policy university of michigan ann arbor approximately 150 200 political networks scholars from around the world are expected to be in attendance the study of political networks serves a key role in understanding governance as politics is largely driven by relationships between actors agencies and institutions a greater recognition of these relationships has begun to change the study of politics we are soliciting papers that apply network ideas from substantive insights to methodological innovations to topics related to american politics international relations comparative politics political theory public administration political methodology or other areas of politics we are particularly interested in proposals that are not only descriptive but that also make causal claims with clear identification strategies submissions are encouraged from a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields including but not limited to political science sociology economics public policy anthropology psychology business information systems mathematics physics and complex systems the full conference will kick off on june 16 with an opening reception and keynote address by garry robins university of melbourne a full schedule of panel presentations begins on june 17 and 18 mark newman of the university of michigan will give the plenary address on june 17 due to the success of the workshop sessions held in prior years at harvard and duke workshop offerings at this year s event have been expanded the first three days will be devoted to didactic sessions on network methodology by leading experts in the field including garry robins steve borgatti mark newman carter butts david siegel meredith rolfe and michael heaney sessions are scheduled as follows june 14 beginning workshop on network analysis assumes no prior training june 15 computer applications in network analysis june 16 specialized workshops in network analysis and keynote address 5pm june 17 conference panels plenary address and poster session june 18 conference panels plenary panel and business meeting key deadlines march 15 deadline for proposals april 1 invitations to conference announced april 15 deadline to confirm or decline invitations may 1 deadline for early registration nsf funded fellowships are available to support graduate students postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty to attend the conference and workshops scholars and students from outside the u s are also eligible to apply the fellowship amount will be pro rated to cover the number of workshop days conference attendance is required for all fellowship recipients to submit a proposal register apply for funding find accommodations or obtain other information please visit http sitemaker umich edu fordschool pnc additionally the 4th annual political networks conference and workshops will be held immediately prior to the beginning of the icpsr summer program at the university of michigan there are two icpsr opportunities that may be of interest to conference participants first icpsr is offering a one week course june 20 24 on advanced network analysis which will provide an overview of how to handle and analyze very large scale network data such as federal elections commission and twitter data fellowships of up to 1 000 will be available to political networks conference attendees who wish to attend this seminar as well more information about this icpsr course is available at http www icpsr umich edu icpsrweb sumprog courses 0135 second icpsr is offering a four week course june 20 july 15 on network analysis more information about this icpsr course is available at http www icpsr umich edu icpsrweb sumprog courses 0131 plan to come to the 4th annual political networks conference and workshops june 14 18 2011 and stay in ann arbor for a summer of training in networks through the icpsr summer program program co chairs meredith rolfe university of oxford meredith rolfe sbs ox ac uk betsy sinclair university of chicago betsy uchicago edu university of michigan host committee michael t heaney chair mheaney umich edu philip b k potter co chair robert j franzese jr elisabeth r gerber william g jacoby posted in announcements social networks leave a comment 2011 sage handbook of social network analysis january 25 2011 edited by carrington and scott coming out soon here s the list of chapters 1 introduction peter j carrington and john scott 2 social network analysis an introduction alexandra marin and barry wellman 3 the development of social network analysis with an emphasis on recent events linton c freeman 4 network theory stephen p borgatti and virginie lopez kidwell 5 social physics and social networks john scott 6 social networks in economics sanjeev goyal 7 relational sociology culture and agency ann mische 8 personal communities the world according to me vincent chua julia madej and barry wellman 9 social support lijun song joonmo son and nan lin 10 kinship class and community douglas r white 11 animal social networks katherine faust 12 networking online cybercommunities anatoliy gruzd and caroline haythornthwaite 13 corporate elites and intercorporate networks william k carroll and j p sapinski 14 political dimensions of corporate connections matthew bond and nicholas harrigan 15 policy networks david knoke 16 social movements and collective action mario diani 17 crime and social network analysis peter j carrington 18 terrorist networks the threat of connectivity renée c van der hulst 19 scientific and scholarly networks howard d white 20 cultural networks paul dimaggio 21 social networks geography and neighbourhood effects ron johnston and charles pattie 22 a multiple network analysis of the world system of nations 1995 1999 edward l kick laura a mckinney steve mcdonald andrew jorgenson 23 a brief introduction to analyzing social network data robert a hanneman and mark riddle 24 concepts and measures for basic network analysis robert a hanneman and mark riddle 25 survey methods for network data peter v marsden 26 survey sampling in networks ove frank 27 qualitative approaches betina hollstein 28 analyzing affiliation networks stephen p borgatti and daniel s halgin 29 positions and roles anuška ferligoj patrick doreian and vladimir batagelj 30 relation algebras and social networks philippa pattison 31 statistical models for ties and actors marijtje a j van duijn and mark huisman 32 exponential random graph models for social networks garry robins 33 network dynamics tom a b snijders 34 models and methods to identify peer effects weihua an 35 kinship network analysis klaus hamberger michael houseman and douglas r white 36 large scale network analysis vladimir batagelj 37 network visualization lothar krempel 38 a reader s guide to sna software mark huisman and marijtje a j van duijn link to the advertisement scott_hb of social network analysis dis compatibility mode 2 posted in announcements social networks 2 comments great data visualization december 9 2010 take a look at these three sites facebook break ups joy of stats baby names posted in research methods leave a comment ethnographic rap september 15 2010 here s a song that you can learn from http www youtube com watch v kywtjwrh1ai here are the lyrics http www lyricsfreak com n notorious big ten crack commandments_20101868 html posted in humor research methods leave a comment administrative wrappers september 6 2010 a recent study of our college of business economics found that the administrative and financial operations of the college are unduly bureaucratic and paper intensive the job of university administration is to give professors the illusion that all they have to do is content solve the mysteries of the universe develop students etc when a professor has to exchange a dozen emails to be reimbursed for one trip or several dozen to reserve multiple summer classrooms for a workshop or literally hundreds of emails to administer his grant the illusion is broken and the professor is not productive he becomes part of administration and in fact a very incompetent part note that the passive this comes from the university response doesn t help nor the university s this comes from the state response computer programmers have a concept called a wrapper when a set of software tools has a very complicated interface the programmer figures it out once and writes a wrapper with a very simple interface so that in his own code he is shielded from that complexity administrators at the college level should not be passing along and worse adding to the university s complexity but rather shielding faculty from the stuff that faculty are really not good at a simple example of the current mentality i hired outside instructors to teach some of our workshops they were asked to fill out several forms in order to get paid i noticed that two of the forms were nearly identical in fact it was clear that one was a newer version of the other when i asked about this i was told we know but when we give both forms to accounting it seems to work so we don t mess with it posted in academia leave a comment harvard professor fakes data august 30 2010 harvard professor marc hauser was found guilty of scientific misconduct harvard doesn t say exactly what that entails but it is clear is that he and his assistants had the task of coding videotaped monkey behavior this is a task which should always be given to someone who does not know what the study s hypotheses are it should also be noted that the scientific method is designed to protect a researcher from his her unconscious biases it does nothing to prevent people from simply faking it http arstechnica com science news 2010 08 harvard professor found guilty of scientific misconduct ars btw the guy s field of study is morality posted in research methods science uncategorized 1 comment ritualistic science april 18 2010 much of science today is not so much scientific as scientistic that means that the forms and behaviors of science are used but the underlying logic is missing scientism is very much like the phenomenon of cargo cults in which pacific islanders built airports and control towers out of wood in order to bring back the planes that came with world war ii they didn t realize that air traffic control panels actually did something so they simply built facsimiles out of wood we can see scientism in every aspect of published research today we see it in papers that think that theory is a set of interconnected hypotheses rather than as the reason why x leads to y we see it in work in which each hypothesis is justified by a collection of independent even mutually contradictory reasons why the hypothesis must be true instead of the hypotheses being tests of an underlying theory the hypotheses are the principal claims of the theory and the justifications for these hypothesis can be a smorgasbord of ideas that embody entirely different theories another aspect of scientism is the belief that there are universal best practices in research that are independent of the research question and the research setting as a result there is a great deal of argumentation from authority e g we use this measure because so and so did we even see it used to justify hypothesis we expect x to lead to y because so and so said it would a tiny example of this ritualistic belief in best practices can be found in network analysis where people argue that certain variables must be collected for example it has been claimed that in organizational network research every study must measure the workflow network which indicates who is required to interact with whom because of the nature of their jobs the idea is that this set of ties can determine many other ties such as interaction and so must be taken account of regardless of the study objectives to borrow a page from the scientistic consider the following counter argument from authority ron burt is a major luminary in the field who has published more than 100 papers on dozens of research projects how many of these included the workflow network none mark granovetter is also a major luminary does his work take account of the workflow network no what about jim coleman brian uzzi jim moody woody powell anybody graduate students need to be inoculated to generate antibodies against any prescription of this kind the moment someone says you can t do meaningful research unless you include insert favorite variable your scientific spider sense should start tingling and you should become wary such rules serve to replace and obviate the need for thought posted in concepts social networks 5 comments apple s negative ties april 17 2010 dan halgin pointed this out to me i wish they had included adobe and amazon as well posted in competitive dynamics social networks 2 comments duke political networks conference may 19 21 2010 april 17 2010 dear networkers the program for the upcoming duke political networks conference has been posted online at http www personal umich edu mheaney duke_conference_program pdf...