International School of Information Management
University of Mysore
Workshop on Social Network Analysis
April 7-9, 2010, Mysore
Faculty:
Prof. Kevin Crowston, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
********
The Three days workshop on 'Social Network Analysis (SNA)' is organized by International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore during April 7-9, 2010.
Context and relevance
Social network analysis as a field of study is growing rapidly and in popularity. It is now evolving into a new paradigm across academia, business, industry, popular culture and folklore. It is both an approach and a tool to uncover and understand the hidden side of connections that drive certain phenomenon involving a network of human players. SNA is the technique of mapping and monitoring the relationships and flow of information/knowledge between individuals, teams, organizations, electronic devices, URLs and other interconnected entities. With the success of social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Orkut with the masses, their influence on the group behavior and opinions are being increasingly felt every day. SNA has gained currency as an effective tool to study those invisible paths or lines that show the ties or links between people, organizations and phenomena themselves. It has been deployed to uncover and visualize hidden patterns in as diverse groups as academic communities to terrorists communities; as diverse phenomenon as correlating performance and creativity to who will be the next US president. SNA is since being perceived from being a suggestive metaphor to an analytic approach to a paradigm, with its own theoretical statements, methods, social network analysis software, and researchers.
Workshop Objective
· Introduce the audience to the goals and perspectives of network analysis.
o Understanding of network data and issues related to collection, validity, visualization and mathematical/computer representation.
o Methods of detection and description of structural properties such as centrality, cohesion, subgroups, cores, roles etc.
· At the end of the course, the participants will be,
o Able to examine data in 'social networks way'
o Identify and formulate network analysis problems
o Solve them using network analysis software and
o Interpret the obtained results.
Software tool used for analysis:
Pajek - Program for Large Network Analysis
Who should attend?
Healthcare Professionals
Social network analysis has been used in epidemiology to help understand how patterns of human contact aid or inhibit the spread of diseases such as HIV in a population.
Information Managers
The evolution of social networks can sometimes be modeled by the use of agent based models, providing insight into the interplay between communication rules,
rumor spreading and social structure.
Administrative Agencies
SNA can also be an effective tool for mass surveillance - for example the analysis of social networks to determine whether or not a particular individual has criminal tendencies.
Innovators/Change Managers
Diffusion of innovations theory explores social networks and their role in influencing the spread of new ideas and practices. Change agents and opinion leaders often play major roles ispurring
the adoption of innovations, although factors inherent to the innovations also play a role.
Brand Managers
It has been widely accepted that the social networking sites have tremendous influence on forming opinions about products/brand. An understanding of the nature and dynamics of social networking can be invaluable.
Marketing Executives
The digital marketing age has brought with it a plethora of options to market once products and services. Also, public opinion and reviews have never been taken more seriously than after the advent of social networking sites. An understanding of the network analysis and tools to simulate them can be precious.
Academic Researchers
Since every discipline in this world— social sciences, humanities, science and technology—involve human actors, SNA has gained currency as an effective research tool .The SNA paradigm offers a new and different set of concepts and analytic tools, beyond those provided by standard quantitative (particularly, statistical) methods
About the Speaker:
Kevin Crowston is a Professor of Information Studies at the Syracuse University since 1996. Prior moving to Syracuse, he taught for five years at the University of Michigan Business School. He received his A.B. (1984) in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has articles and book chapters on IT and new organizational forms. His current research projects include the NSF sponsored "VOSS: Theory and design of virtual organizations for citizen science" and "Collaborative Research: CRI: CRD: Data and analysis archive for research on Free and Open Source Software and its development." He is visiting faculty @ ISiM.
Registration Fee (Regular) : INR. 8000
Registration Fee (Academics) : INR. 6000
Registration Fee ( Students ) : INR. 2000
Early bird incentive: Discount of INR. 1000*
* (if registered on or before March 25, 2010)
Group Registration: 10% discount if 3 or more registrants from the same organization. (Not applicable for students )
Organized by
International School of Information Management (ISiM) , University of Mysore, Mysore.
Workshop Venue:
International School of Information Management (ISiM)
University of Mysore,
Manasagangotri,
Mysore 570006
For more details, please Contact:
Mr. Jayanth Jagadeesh - 91 9663376680
Ms. Shweta - 91 9663317770
http://www.isim.ac.in/snaworkshop/index.htm
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International School of Information Management
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
Mysore - 570 006
Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417
Fax: +91-821-2519209
Email: office@isim.ac.in
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University of Mysore
Workshop on Social Network Analysis
April 7-9, 2010, Mysore
Faculty:
Prof. Kevin Crowston, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
********
The Three days workshop on 'Social Network Analysis (SNA)' is organized by
International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of
Mysore during April 7-9, 2010.
Context and relevance
Social network analysis as a field of study is growing rapidly and in
popularity. It is now evolving into a new paradigm across academia,
business, industry, popular culture and folklore. It is both an approach
and a tool to uncover and understand the hidden side of connections that
drive certain phenomenon involving a network of human players. SNA is the
technique of mapping and monitoring the relationships and flow of
information/knowledge between individuals, teams, organizations,
electronic devices, URLs and other interconnected entities. With the
success of social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and
Orkut with the masses, their influence on the group behavior and opinions
are being increasingly felt every day. SNA has gained currency as an
effective tool to study those invisible paths or lines that show the ties
or links between people, organizations and phenomena themselves. It has
been deployed to uncover and visualize hidden patterns in as diverse
groups as academic communities to terrorists communities; as diverse
phenomenon as correlating performance and creativity to who will be the
next US president. SNA is since being perceived from being a suggestive
metaphor to an analytic approach to a paradigm, with its own theoretical
statements, methods, social network analysis software, and researchers.
Workshop Objective
· Introduce the audience to the goals and perspectives of network
analysis.
o Understanding of network data and issues related to collection,
validity, visualization and mathematical/computer representation.
o Methods of detection and description of structural properties such as
centrality, cohesion, subgroups, cores, roles etc.
· At the end of the course, the participants will be,
o Able to examine data in 'social networks way'
o Identify and formulate network analysis problems
o Solve them using network analysis software and
o Interpret the obtained results.
Software tool used for analysis:
Pajek - Program for Large Network Analysis
Who should attend?
Healthcare Professionals
Social network analysis has been used in epidemiology to help understand
how patterns of human contact aid or inhibit the spread of diseases such
as HIV in a population.
Information Managers
The evolution of social networks can sometimes be modeled by the use of
agent based models, providing insight into the interplay between
communication rules,
rumor spreading and social structure.
Administrative Agencies
SNA can also be an effective tool for mass surveillance - for example the
analysis of social networks to determine whether or not a particular
individual has criminal tendencies.
Innovators/Change Managers
Diffusion of innovations theory explores social networks and their role in
influencing the spread of new ideas and practices. Change agents and
opinion leaders often play major roles ispurring
the adoption of innovations, although factors inherent to the innovations
also play a role.
Brand Managers
It has been widely accepted that the social networking sites have
tremendous influence on forming opinions about products/brand. An
understanding of the nature and dynamics of social networking can be
invaluable.
Marketing Executives
The digital marketing age has brought with it a plethora of options to
market once products and services. Also, public opinion and reviews have
never been taken more seriously than after the advent of social networking
sites. An understanding of the network analysis and tools to simulate them
can be precious.
Academic Researchers
Since every discipline in this world- social sciences, humanities,
science and technology-involve human actors, SNA has gained currency as an
effective research tool .The SNA paradigm offers a new and different set
of concepts and analytic tools, beyond those provided by standard
quantitative (particularly, statistical) methods
About the Speaker:
Kevin Crowston is a Professor of Information Studies at the Syracuse
University since 1996. Prior moving to Syracuse, he taught for five years
at the University of Michigan Business School. He received his A.B. (1984)
in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a
Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of
Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has articles and
book chapters on IT and new organizational forms. His current research
projects include the NSF sponsored "VOSS: Theory and design of virtual
organizations for citizen science" and "Collaborative Research: CRI: CRD:
Data and analysis archive for research on Free and Open Source Software
and its development." He is visiting faculty @ ISiM.
Registration Fee (Regular) : INR. 8000
Registration Fee (Academics) : INR. 6000
Registration Fee ( Students ) : INR. 2000
Early bird incentive: Discount of INR. 1000*
* (if registered on or before March 25, 2010)
Group Registration: 10% discount if 3 or more registrants from the same
organization. (Not applicable for students )
Organized by
International School of Information Management (ISiM) , University of
Mysore, Mysore.
Workshop Venue:
International School of Information Management (ISiM)
University of Mysore,
Manasagangotri,
Mysore 570006
For more details, please Contact:
Mr. Jayanth Jagadeesh - 91 9663376680
Ms. Shweta - 91 9663317770
http://www.isim.ac.in/snaworkshop/index.htm
International School of Information Management
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
Mysore - 570 006
Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417
Fax: +91-821-2519209
Email: office@isim.ac.in
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I appreciate this significant initiative to promote network thinking and social network analysis in India. I appreciate the orgnisers as well as resource person who have done a good work. I hope they will continue their work further in organising summer courses, workshops trianing programmes and conferences to promote this methodology in India.
ReplyDeleteDr.Kanagaraj Easwaran
Mizoram University