User:OrenBochman/WGT/Wikisym Report

Research Tools & Resources

Ethnographic Research Resources

• paper The making of an imagined community: The press as a mediator in ethnographic research into Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) Carles Salazar & Gemma Orobitg

• ethnography matters recommended by Heather Ford.
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• Skype Recorder

SNA

Texts:

• Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks - Theory, Methods, and Applications - Dean Lusher & Johan Koskinen & Garry Robins
• Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis - Carrington, Scott & Wasserman
• Social Network Analysis Methods and Applications - Stanley Wasserman & Katherine Faust
• Analyzing Social Media Networks With Nodexl - Derek L. Hansen & Ben Shneiderman & Marc A. Smith
• Exploratory Social Network Analysis With Pajek - Wouter De Nooy & Andrej Mrvar & Vladimir Batagelj

FLOSS SNA Packages:

• Introduction to SNA with R
• PNet a program for the simulation and estimation of Exponential Random Graph (p*) Models.
• Siena SNA using dynamics (time development).
• Statnet - tools for the analysis, simulation and visualization of network data.
• Pajek a program for large network analysis.

Other Concepts:

• H-index of trees and graphs.
• Network Motifs and ratios.