Editing Designing Internet Research (Spring 2025) (section)

=== Thursday May 22: Social network analysis ===
{{notice|Details and readings are still tentative.}}

'''Required Readings:'''

* Lazer, David. 2018. “Networks and Information Flow.” The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication, April. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.2. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.2}}
* Garton, Laura, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Barry Wellman. 1997. “Studying Online Social Networks.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3 (1): 0–0. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1997.tb00062.x. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1997.tb00062.x}}
* Mislove, Alan, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, and Bobby Bhattacharjee. 2007. “Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks.” In Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement, 29–42. IMC ’07. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1298306.1298311. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/1298306.1298311}}
* Shumate, Michelle, and Edward T. Palazzolo. 2010. “Exponential Random Graph (P*) Models as a Method for Social Network Analysis in Communication Research.” Communication Methods and Measures 4 (4): 341–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2010.527869. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060234/download?download_frd=1}}
* Foucault Welles, Brooke, Anthony Vashevko, Nick Bennett, and Noshir Contractor. 2014. “Dynamic Models of Communication in an Online Friendship Network.” Communication Methods and Measures 8 (4): 223–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2014.967843. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060236/download?download_frd=1}}
* Freelon, Deen. 2018. “Partition-Specific Network Analysis of Digital Trace Data.” The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication, April. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.3. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.3}}

'''Optional Readings:'''

* Wellman, Barry. 2016. “Challenges in Collecting Personal Network Data: The Nature of Personal Network Analysis - Barry Wellman, 2007.” Field Methods, July. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1525822X06299133. {{avail-uw|http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1525822X06299133}}
* Yang, Jaewon, and Jure Leskovec. 2015. “Defining and Evaluating Network Communities Based on Ground-Truth.” Knowledge and Information Systems 42 (1): 181–213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-013-0693-z. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060237/download?download_frd=1}}
* Centola, Damon. 2010. “The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment.” Science 329 (5996): 1194–97. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1185231.  {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1185231}}
* '''[Example]''' Jackson, Sarah J., and Brooke Foucault Welles. 2015. “Hijacking #myNYPD: Social Media Dissent and Networked Counterpublics.” Journal of Communication 65 (6): 932–52. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12185. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12185}}

'''Network datasets:'''

* [https://snap.stanford.edu/data/ Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection] which contains a variety of network datasets. Many, but certainly not all, are social networks.