Keynote Speaker: Clay Shirky

Our keynote speaker this year was Clay Shirky, writer, consultant, and teacher on new technology and social media. Clay is a provocative new voice on all things Internet: social networks and media, economics and culture, connected communities, and the open-source movement. He divides his time among consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the way network technologies provide new ways for groups to get...

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From: psutlt

Related topics : new social media tools / social network open source / open source social media / economic and social networking / social media consultant

David Nour - Social Networking Expert & Author of Relationship Economics

David Nour is a social networking strategist and one of the foremost thought leaders on the quantifiable value of business relationships. A native of Iran, David came to the U.S. with a suitcase, $100, limited family ties and no fluency in English! In the past 25 years, he has built an impressive career of entrepreneurial success, both within large corporations and early stage ventures. David is the author of Relationship Economics, a senior management advisor, and in-demand speaker, and the...

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From: Speakers' Spotlight

Related topics : economic and social networking

Social and Economic Networks 2.4 Week 2: Centrality Eigenvector Measures

Learn about eigenvector centrality in a network

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From: Social and Economic Networks

Related topics : social network centrality / economic and social networking

Social and Economic Networks 2.9 Week 2: A Small World Model

A small world model of networks

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From: Social and Economic Networks

Related topics : it's a small world social network / economic and social networking

Social and Economic Networks 7.3 Week 7: Structure of equilibria in games on networks

Structure of equilibria in games on networks

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From: Social and Economic Networks

Related topics : structure of social network / economic and social networking

Social and Economic Networks 2.3 Week 2: Centrality Measures

Learn about various measures of centrality in a network

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From: Social and Economic Networks

Related topics : social network measures / economic and social networking

The Relationships among Social Interaction, Economics, and Culture

To view the handout associated with this talk, go here: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/what-we-do/information/video/ac_809/

On March 15, 2016, Matthew Peeples (Arizona State University) presented “The Relationships among Social Interaction, Economics, and Culture.”

From Matt:

"The work I will present represents the initial results of a large and collaborative project involving Archaeology Southwest, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University. It is focused on using...

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From: ArchaeologySouthwest

Related topics : social network analysis culture / economic and social networking / social networking culture

Why academics should use social media (Economics)

Top advice for today’s researchers on using social media. Prashan Karunaratne, Economics doctoral researcher and teaching academic at Macquarie University, shares how he and his colleagues in Economics use social media and other online platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and ResearchGate to promote their research, keep track of recent findings, engage undergraduate students, comment on current economic issues, and network with other researchers and practitioners.

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From: JLUM

Related topics : universities using social media / research social media / online social media / economic and social networking / promotion social media

PhD Defense Presentation-Mechanical Engineering-Gatech

Recent advances in social media have profound technical and economic implications for innovative design. This research is motivated to investigate social network effects on product design with a focus on the interface of engineering design, viral marketing, and social computing. This dissertation envisions a new paradigm of design, called viral product design for social network effects. The research problem is formulated as identification of both an optimal product attribute configurations and...

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From: Feng Zhou

Related topics : social network design / online social networking marketing / social media and its implications for viral marketing / social media for market research / social media online marketing

The diffusion of academic achievements: social selection and influence in student networks

Sofia Dokuka - Junior Research Fellow Center for Institutional Studies / International Research Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms

Peer group effects show the influence of student social environments on their individual achievements. Traditionally, a social environment is considered by researchers of peer effects as exogenously given. However, significant peers that affect performance are often those that are deliberately chosen. Students might choose their friends among...

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From: AcademicsVideo

Related topics : students social networking / social networking research / analysis of social networking / economic and social networking