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ANN members participate at Sunbelt 2008

The 28th Annual International Network of Social Network Analysis Sunbelt Conference will be held in St. Petersburg, Florida, from January 22 - 28, 2008. Profs. Peter Monge and Janet Fulk, as well as doctoral students Drew Margolin, Matthew Weber and Bettina Heiss will be representing the ANN team with presentations as follows:

• Thursday, January 24, 8:40AM: "Advice Seeking in Online Discussions: Network Characteristics as Cues of Information Trustworthiness" Matthew Weber and Andrea Hollingshead.


• Saturday, January 26, 10:30AM: "Bulls vs. Bears Online: The Diffusion and Evolution of Argument in an Online Discussion Network" Drew Margolin


• Saturday, January 26, 11:20AM: "Networked Organizational Identities in Social Networks" Janet Fulk

Abstracts and working papers will be posted shortly.

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ANN sponsors “Urban Networks and Network Theory” in Lausanne

The Annenberg Networks Network was a proud sponsor of the “Urban Networks and Network Theory” workshop, held at the University of Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 8 - 9. The workshop was co-hosted by the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Institute of Technology. Prof. Manual Castells attended and lead the session “Space of Flows: Networks between global and local.”

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ANN members participate at Sunbelt 2007

The 27th Annual International Network of Social Network Analysis Sunbelt Conference was held in Corfu, Greece, from May 1 - 6, 2007. A number of ANN members attended, including Peter Monge, Janet Fulk, Bettina Heiss, Cindy Shen, Seungyoon Lee and Matthew Weber, and a number of others authored papers. Click here for full information and copies of papers and presentations.

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Monge presents talk at International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities

Prof. Peter Monge attended the International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, March 29 - 31, and gave a talk on the “Evolution of Online Communities.” Click here to view the presentation.

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Visualizing Network Dynamics Competition

The “Visualizing Network Dynamics” Competition, a part of NetSci07, is now open for submission. The final day for submission is April 10th, 2007. The International Workshop and Conference on Network Science will be held at New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY, May 20th-25th, 2007.

Details are at http://vw.indiana.edu/07netsci.

Social Network Analysis in the News:
Networks go to the Oscars Click to read the New York Times article, “Who thanks whom? A not-so-quick guide to Oscar acceptance speeches,” an interesting application of social networks to everyday life.	Man’s Best Friend National Geographic recently ran a article that featured a social network analysis of who man’s best friend’s best friend is. Click to read more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to ANN, the Annenberg Networks Network. ANN supports a variety of efforts designed to develop social network theory. One key strategy to developing new theory is the exploration of information-based communication networks that are the foundation of a new social form called the network society. Another useful approach takes the form of exploring multiple existing social theories to identify new implications for social networks that accrue from combining multiple theories at multiple levels. And a third technique is to apply a theory developed to explain other phenomena to information and communication networks, as in the case of evolutionary theory. ANN also undertakes empirical research projects to test these network theories. ANN sponsors advanced workshops focused on network theory development as well as a seminar series featuring distinguished network scholars from around the world. Initial financial support for ANN has been provided by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Annenberg Center for Communication, USC. ANN has also received generous technological research assistance from Google, Inc. If you find our website interesting and would like to provide helpful comments, please add them to our comments list. If you would like to explore an affiliation with us please contact Peter Monge, <monge at usc dot edu>.

 

A number of new Web sites features visual cloud searches. This is a form of "automica network visualization" which generates a rapid visual of the semantic Internet web. Two worth taking a at are Kart00 and TouchGraph.

Kart00 uses flash player and generates a quick visual snapshot. Click on the image to jump open Kart00 in a new browser window.

Touch Graph is Java based an will launch a Java applet in your browser window. While Java is required, this is a very powerful visualization tool allowing the user to study networks in Google, Amazon, and even Facebook.

And lastly, visual thesaurus provide a true visualzition of technical semantic webs. Click here.

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