Automated Analysis of Information and Social Networks from Social Media Data

Anatoliy Gruzd (Dalhousie University) discusses how to do automated analysis of information and social networks using social media data. As social creatures, our online lives just like our offline lives are intertwined with others within a wide variety of social networks. Each retweet on Twitter, comment on a blog or link to a Youtube video explicitly or implicitly connects one online participant to another and contributes to the formation of various information and social networks. Once...

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From: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Related topics : network analysis social media / analysis social networks / social networking community / social media blogs

#Qualitative + #quantitative research methods = strong research : Douglas Kivoi

Douglas Kivoi participated in PASGR's Multi-Method Research Course (MMRC) in 2015.

MMRC is PASGR’s innovative technique towards research methodology that brings together two key research approaches: qualitative and quantitative methods.

PASGR emphasises high quality, internationally competitive and current content. This content is delivered through participatory and interactive adult learning methods and the use of cutting edge electronic platforms and tools.

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From: Partnership for African Social & Governance Research (PASGR)

Related topics : social network analysis methods and applications / social networking research / analysis of social networking

This course promoted my #criticalthinking on #researchconcepts - Maureen Nakirunda

Maureen Nakirunda from Uganda completed PASGR's #MultiMethod #Research Course (MMRC) in 2015.

MMRC is PASGR’s innovative technique towards #research #methodology that brings together two key research approaches: #qualitative and #quantitative methods.

PASGR emphasises high quality, internationally competitive and current content. This content is delivered through participatory and interactive adult learning methods and the use of cutting edge electronic platforms and tools.

We have set...

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From: Partnership for African Social & Governance Research (PASGR)

Related topics : social network analysis methods and applications / social networking research / analysis of social networking

I can now do #policyresearch confidently - Lydia Hangulu

Lydia Hangulu is from Zimbabwe. She participated in PASGR's Multi-Method Research Course (MMRC) in 2015.

MMRC is PASGR’s innovative technique towards research methodology that brings together two key research approaches: qualitative and quantitative methods.

PASGR emphasises high quality, internationally competitive and current content. This content is delivered through participatory and interactive adult learning methods and the use of cutting edge electronic platforms and tools.

We...

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From: Partnership for African Social & Governance Research (PASGR)

Related topics : social network analysis methods and applications / social networking research / analysis of social networking

This exciting course helped me revive my #PhD work - Kikelomo Mbada

Kikelomo Mbada is from Nigeria. She completed PASGR's Multi-Method Research Course (MMRC) in 2015.

MMRC is PASGR’s innovative technique towards research methodology that brings together two key research approaches: qualitative and quantitative methods.

PASGR emphasises high quality, internationally competitive and current content. This content is delivered through participatory and interactive adult learning methods and the use of cutting edge electronic platforms and tools.

We have set...

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From: Partnership for African Social & Governance Research (PASGR)

Related topics : social network analysis methods and applications / social networking research / analysis of social networking

This research course changed my life - Sauda Nabukenya

Sauda Nabukenya is from Uganda. She completed PASGR's Multi-Method Research Course (MMRC) in 2015.

MMRC is PASGR’s innovative technique towards research methodology that brings together two key research approaches: qualitative and quantitative methods.

PASGR emphasises high quality, internationally competitive and current content. This content is delivered through participatory and interactive adult learning methods and the use of cutting edge electronic platforms and tools.

We have set...

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From: Partnership for African Social & Governance Research (PASGR)

Related topics : social network analysis methods and applications / social networking research / analysis of social networking

Civil society, social movements, and mixed methods

In this lecture, Dr. Dana Fisher overviews the conceptual and methodological approaches used by sociologists to study civil society and social movements. She notes that the research focuses on organizational and institutional forms, as well as forms of action. She then presents an example of studying urban environmental stewardship to exemplify the use of mixed methods in studying civil society, and highlights the use of network analysis and survey methodologies. She also presents an example of...

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From: sesync annapolis

Related topics : social network analysis survey examples / social movement media

Introduction | C-IKNOW tutorial

C-IKNOW, short for Cyber Infrastructure Knowledge Networks On the Web, is a web-based social network analysis platform that allows users to gather, store, and analyze virtually any type of network data.

This video will demonstrate how to collect data by creating surveys, just one of C-IKNOW's many capabilities.

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From: SonicNU

Related topics : social network analysis web / analysis of social networking

Friends don�t Lie - Inferring Personality Traits from Social Network Structure

In this work, we investigate the relationships between social network structure and personality; we assess the performances of different subsets of structural network features, and in particular those concerned with ego-networks, in predicting the Big-5 personality traits. In addition to traditional survey-based data, this work focuses on social networks derived from real-life data gathered through smartphones. Besides showing that the latter are superior to the former for the task at hand, our...

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From: Microsoft Research

Related topics : structure of social network

Stakeholder Engagement Presentation

This short presentation describes Optimice's (www.optimice.com.au) unique approach to Stakeholder Engagement. We believe our differentiators are:

1. We address the whole stakeholder influence network for which we have tools to visualise the complex interconnections

2. We have on-line survey tools to maximise the breadth of input and have analytical tools drawn from social network analysis to help prioritise stakeholders

3. We have an active negotiation process based on value network analysis to...

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From: Laurence Lock Lee

Related topics : social network analysis survey tool / analysis of social networking