The harvest of interesting internet offerings of last month: Social media strike again: an invitation to a birthday party of a 16-year old girl, accidentally(?) made public on Facebook, draws thousands to…
Category: Sociology
Kanttekeningen bij “De kloof is wit”
In het artikel “De kloof is wit” in De Volkskrant van 1 september 2012 boren journalisten Martin Sommer en Tjerk Gualthérie, samen met socioloog Jaap Dronkers en geograaf Josse de Voogd een…
Duncan Watts on common sense
I recently discovered this video of a TEDx talk by Duncan Watts, my favorite physicist-turned-sociologist, in which he nicely and effectively summarizes the main points of his latest book, Everything is Obvious…
Headscarves and signaling theory
The latest issue of Rationality and Society has a nice paper by David Patel on the increased popularity of ‘fundamentalist’ Islamic clothing styles such as the full-face veil or niqab. According to…
About the network structure of Hyves
I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest paper in PLoS ONE, titled “Composition and Structure of a Large Online Social Network in the Netherlands.” The paper studies the network…
On unsolved sociological questions
Harvard’s Ethan Fosse blogs about his top five unsolved sociological questions. Regardless of whether I agree that these particular ones are the “top five” (although I think all of them are interesting…
Misc. links, March 2012
Cambridge University Press launches a new journal called Network Science. The editorial board looks impressive, with prominent names from various disciplines that deal with networks, including sociology, economics, physics, and computer science….
Golder and Macy on Social Science with Social Media
A recent issue of Footnotes, the newsletter of the American Sociological Association, includes an article by Scott Golder and Michael Macy on the use of data generated by social media for social…
New working paper online: Online Social Networks in the Netherlands
I just uploaded a new working paper on SSRN, titled “Composition and Structure of a Large Online Social Network in the Netherlands.” The paper describes an exploratory analysis of a unique dataset…
10th Workshop on Networks in Economics and Sociology in Utrecht
For the tenth time, we organize our Workshop on Networks in Economics and Sociology at Utrecht University, as a co-production of the department of Sociology and the Utrecht School of Economics. To…