Resources
Related Research Groups
- NICO Lab at Northwestern Universiy http://www.northwestern.edu/nico/
- ANN at USC-Annenberg (Peter Monge) http://ann.uscannenberg.org/
- Program for Network Governance at Harvard University (David Lazer) http://www.hks.harvard.edu/davidlazer/html/ and http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/index.htm
- NETLAB at University of Toronto (Barry Wellman) http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Ewellman/
- Information Visualization at Indiana University (Kate Börner) http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/%7Ekaty/
- Web Science Research Institute http://webscience.org/
- CASOS at Carnegie Mellon University (Kathleen Carley) http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/
- MELNET at the University of Melbourne (Gary Robins) http://www.sna.unimelb.edu.au/
- LINKS center at University of Kentucky (Steve Borgatti) http://linkscenter.org/
Courses on Social Networks at Northwestern University
- COMM_ST 525-0 – 21 LEC (26744)/ MTS 525-0/ IEMS 490-0-21 LEC (26025): Social Network Analysis. Graduate seminar
- IEMS 395/ COMM ST 395: Social Networks. Undergraduate course
Related Software
- nodeXL http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL (Marc Smith)
- Sonia: Longitudinal software for networks http://www.stanford.edu/group/sonia/news/index.html (Skye Bender-deMoll and Daniel A. McFarland)
- GUESS: http://graphexploration.cond.org/ (Eytan Adar)
- Crawdad http://www.crawdadtech.com/html/03_customers.html (Steve Corman)
- ORA http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/ora/software.html (Kathleen Carley)
- Issue Crawler: http://www.issuecrawler.net/ (Richard Rogers)
- VOSON: http://voson.anu.edu.au/ (Rob Ackland)
- Repast: http://repast.sourceforge.net/ (Michael North)
- CATPAC: http://www.galileoco.com/N_catpac.asp (Joe Woelfel)
- NetVis Module: Dynamic Visualization of Social Networks: http://www.netvis.org/ (Jonathon Cummings)
- SocialAction: Integrating Statistics and Visualization for Social Network Analysis http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction/#images (Ben Shneiderman)
Related Blogs
- Keith Hampton: http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/index2.php
- Valdis Krebs’ blog http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/ and http://www.thenetworkthinker.com/
- Marc Smith’s blog http://www.connectedaction.net/
- Lada Adamic’s blog: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ladamic/
- David Lazer’s blog: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/
- Nosh Contractor’s blog: http://iknowinc.com
Professional Associations
- Academy of Management (AOM): A leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations.
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide.
- Institute for Operations Research & Management Science (INFORMS): A member of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies, dedicated to advancing the development and dissemination of all aspects of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (OR/MS).
- International Communication Association (ICA): An academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.
- International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA): A professional association for researchers interested in social network analysis. The association is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Delaware.
- National Communication Association (NCA): A scholarly society and as such works to enhance the research, teaching, and service produced by its members on topics of both intellectual and social significance.