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20:28, 1 December 2023 ‎Community Data Science Lab (NU) (hist | edit) ‎[1,136 bytes] ‎Sohw (talk | contribs) (Created page with "We are located in 2-430 Frances Searle, a building which is notoriously hexagonal and will trap you in its cold, concrete embrace even after five years of navigating it. Fortunately, 2-430 is relatively easy to find. We share the space with the CollabLab run by Darren Gergle. <div class="toclimit-1"> __TOC__ </div> == Directions to 2-430 lab space== * Enter from the front door, and go straight up the staircase you see upon entering the lobby. * At the top of the stair...")
18:40, 8 November 2023 ‎Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week 8 (hist | edit) ‎[214 bytes] ‎Aaronshaw (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Agenda== === Part 1. How do others see you === * Intro to the challenge (10 min) * Activity/discussion (25 min) === Break! === === Part 2. Guest === * Matt Kay")
20:15, 1 November 2023 ‎Dialogues/Underproduction (hist | edit) ‎[4,417 bytes] ‎Benjamin Mako Hill (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=Access and Participation Inequalities: Implications for Online Communities= '''Please read the Virtual Event Code of Conduct. We will be recording the event presentations, but not discussions.''' This event will take place '''May 19, 2023 at 10:00am PT (17:00-UTC)'''. It will feature '''Professor Hernan Galperin''' (University of Southern California) and '''Floor Fiers''' (Northwestern University). '''[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7lANLuspnHRm56zMuQg...") originally created as "Dialogues/Aligning contributors and audiences"
15:25, 31 October 2023 ‎Communication and Social Networks (Fall 2023)/Barbera summary (hist | edit) ‎[2,881 bytes] ‎Jdfoote (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This paper analyzes the role of peripheral online participants during protest movements. The authors examine Twitter communication networks during 3 different protests: # 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey # 2012 Occupy movement # 2012 Spanish Indignados movement They also analyze 2 non-protest Twitter networks for comparison: # 2014 Academy Awards # 2014 Minimum wage debates in the US The authors are interested in understanding the contribution of peripheral users...")
22:10, 30 October 2023 ‎Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week 7 (hist | edit) ‎[1,063 bytes] ‎Aaronshaw (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Agenda == === Part 1. FOO === === Break! === === Part 2. Guests === * Larissa Buchholz and Jim Schwoch == Reminders and announcements ==")
20:38, 24 October 2023 ‎Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week 6 (hist | edit) ‎[833 bytes] ‎Aaronshaw (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Agenda == === Part 0. === * Review and synthesis of mid-quarter course feedback and assessment. === Part 1. Building professional communities & support networks === * Introduction to the challenges (a link between CV reading and professional communities/networks * Discussion of CV reading exercise and reflections * Conversation starter: Please share your reactions to the following quote from the Bernstein piece on approaching famous scholars: ::"Real, effective net...")
22:59, 9 October 2023 ‎Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week 4 (hist | edit) ‎[1,017 bytes] ‎Aaronshaw (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Agenda == === Part 1. Where does the money come from === === Break! === Get up, move around. === Part 2. Guest === Yingdan Lu == Reminders & Announcements ==")
03:27, 4 October 2023 ‎Communication and Social Networks (Fall 2023)/Travers summary (hist | edit) ‎[1,575 bytes] ‎Jdfoote (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The paper reports on an experimental study by Jeffrey Travers and Stanley Milgram investigating the "small world problem" - the idea that society is highly interconnected with short paths linking any two people. The study tested this by tracing acquaintance chains from arbitrarily selected "starting persons" to a designated "target person" in Boston. The starters were from Nebraska and Boston. Each starter received a document to mail to the target. They could only send i...")
17:43, 3 October 2023 ‎Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week 3 (hist | edit) ‎[701 bytes] ‎Aaronshaw (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Agenda == === Part 1. Mentoring and collaboration === * Intro to the challenges. * Mentoring/advising ** (in small groups, see below) Identify/revisit topics for group discussion ** Sharing and discussion ** What is to be done? * Collaborations ** (in small groups, see below) Identify/revisit topics for group discussion ** Sharing and discussion ** What is to be done? '''Small groups:''' * Sara Abdulla + Jessi Zier * Ling Zhao + Haohan Shi * Annie Chu + Molly de Bla...")
04:06, 27 September 2023 ‎Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week2 (hist | edit) ‎[2,392 bytes] ‎Aaronshaw (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Agenda == === Part 1. Research puzzles === * Intro to the challenge. * Discuss Abbott reading. * Durkheim ''Suicide'' reading + exercise. * Paired discussion of your work (pairs listed below). ** Take a few minutes to read each other's submissions (the hard copies) ** Some possible discussion prompts: *** Talk about the feedback you each received. *** Given the puzzles conversation today, what feedback/suggestions do you have for yourself? for your partner? *** How...") originally created as "Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)Week2"
15:26, 26 September 2023 ‎Communication and Social Networks (Fall 2023)/Bourdieu summary (hist | edit) ‎[3,582 bytes] ‎Jdfoote (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In his essay, Bourdieu argues that capital exists in three primary forms: economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital. Economic capital refers directly to money and assets that can be immediately converted into money. Cultural capital exists in three states: embodied, objectified, and institutionalized. The embodied state refers to the dispositions of the mind and body, which require time and effort to accumulate. The objectified state consists of material cul...")
15:21, 26 September 2023 ‎Communication and Social Networks (Fall 2023)/Putnam summary (hist | edit) ‎[3,263 bytes] ‎Jdfoote (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Robert Putnam argues that civic engagement and social connectedness in the United States has declined over the past few decades. He presents evidence of declining political participation, including decreasing voter turnout and public meeting attendance since the 1960s. Putnam also shows declining membership in organizations like churches, labor unions, parent-teacher associations, civic and fraternal organizations since the 1950s and 1960s. More people are bowling alone...")
15:05, 26 September 2023 ‎Communication and Social Networks (Fall 2023)/granovetter summary (hist | edit) ‎[4,021 bytes] ‎Jdfoote (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This 1973 paper by Mark Granovetter discusses the strength of weak ties in social networks. Granovetter argues that weak social ties, connections between individuals who do not interact frequently, play an important role in diffusion of information and opportunities. Weak ties act as bridges between densely knit cliques and groups, allowing ideas and information to spread beyond tightly knit social circles. Granovetter defines the strength of an interpersonal tie as a...")
15:00, 26 September 2023 ‎Communication and Social Networks (Fall 2023)/kadushin summary (hist | edit) ‎[4,721 bytes] ‎Jdfoote (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Claude.ai summary of Kadushin, C. (2012). Networks as Social Capital, in Kadushin, C. (2012). Understanding Social Networks. Theories, Concepts and Findings. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Social capital refers to the resources and benefits that accrue to individuals and groups through their social networks. The concept has roots in sociological theories about social structure and community, with key early contributions by Bourdieu and Coleman. Social capital exists...")
22:02, 19 September 2023 ‎Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week1 (hist | edit) ‎[1,611 bytes] ‎Aaronshaw (talk | contribs) (Created page with " == Agenda == === Introductions (2 min per person) === Please share: * Preferred name(s) and pronouns. * Something meaningful/important to you or about you (not research and not obvious). === Very brief course introduction (~15 min) === * Learning goals * Structure * Assignments ** Weekly readings, writing/activities, discussion provocations ** Final project * A syllabus on a wiki? * A note about interdisciplinarity and this class * A note about reading (as a research...")
18:49, 15 September 2023 ‎Communication and Social Networks (Fall 2023)/smith status summary (hist | edit) ‎[3,345 bytes] ‎Jdfoote (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Here is the summary with the table converted to wiki markup: The paper examines how people of different socioeconomic status activate their social networks when faced with job loss threat. It defines network activation as the subset of a person's full potential network that comes to mind in a given situation. Study 1 analyzed data from the General Social Survey, finding that when facing job threat, high status people activated larger, less constrained networks while lo...")
18:44, 15 September 2023 ‎Communication and Social Networks (Fall 2023)/marsden core summary (hist | edit) ‎[2,693 bytes] ‎Jdfoote (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This article analyzes data from the 1985 General Social Survey to provide a descriptive overview of the structure of core discussion networks in America. The networks examined are those alters that respondents named when asked to identify people "with whom you discussed matters important to you" over the last 6 months. The goal is to establish benchmark descriptions of major aspects of networks using a nationally representative sample. The article examines measures of n...")
19:58, 12 September 2023 ‎Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Final project (hist | edit) ‎[5,156 bytes] ‎Aaronshaw (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== Overview === The final project for the course will be a 5,000 word (approximately) written document consisting of two parts: (1) a brief strategic plan for the next year or so of your graduate school career, and (2) a proposal for a research project you plan to conduct. I've elaborated some expectations for each below. I also provide some formatting and submission guidelines. '''Projects are due at 12pm CT, December 4, 2023 [via Canvas]'''. ==== Part I: Strategi...")