Social Networks just published an article by Michal Bojanowski and myself, titled “Measuring segregation in social networks“. The title says it all: it systematically reviews all the different ways that have been…
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My book is out!
Wiley were so kind to publish my book “Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas”, which summarizes a lot of my earlier research on network dynams…
De kunst van het trendwatchen
Het is traditioneel de tijd van het jaar dat “trendwatchers” hun licht laten schijnen over maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen en voorspellingen doen over de nabije toekomst. Deze beroepsgroep lijkt een soort geheime bron van…
netplot code now on GitHub
Every once in a while, I receive requests to include new features in netplot, such as options for weighted ties, different layout algorithms, or access to regular twoway graph options. I very…
The Dis-Embedding of Social Ties
PLOS one just published a paper that I co-authored with Paolo Parigi, Bogdan State, Diana Dakhlallah, and Karen Cook. It’s titled “A Community of Strangers: The Dis-Embedding of Social Ties” and studies the…
New paper out: Alcohol use among adolescents as a coordination problem in a dynamic network
I am pleased to announced that Rationality and Society just published a paper I co-authored with Andrea Knecht, titled “Alcohol use among adolescents as a coordination problem in a dynamic network.” In…
Drawing Watts-Strogatz small world networks with netplot
Omar Lizardo tweets some nice pics Watts-Strogatz small world networks made with netplot in Stata: The original PDF with the pictures is here, the Mata code to generate the networks is here.
On recall of social networks and micro-macro problems
Scientific Reports just published a very interesting article by Matthew Brashears titled “Humans use Compression Heuristics to Improve the Recall of Social Networks“. Here’s the abstract: The ability of primates, including humans,…
Over netwerkanalyse in het Cohen-rapport
Vorige week verscheen het rapport van de commissie-Cohen over de “Facebookrellen” in Haren in 2012. Als netwerkonderzoeker met een speciale interesse in online sociale netwerken was ik verheugd te zien dat het…
De Swaan en experimentele sociologie
Enige tijd geleden publiceerde Sociologie Magazine een column door Abraham de Swaan over experimentele sociologie. Omdat ik experimentele sociologie tot mijn expertise reken, De Swaan naar mijn mening de plank een beetje…