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Seminar: What are communities in social networks?

Seminar|CCL20210318

Seminar: What are communities in social networks?
27 JAN 2021
Speaker(s)
Dr. Zachary Neal
Time
9:30 - 11:00
Venue
via Zoom
Language
English
Corresponding GA(s)
Communication; Learning; Knowledge
Fee
$0.00
Organizer
SOC
Communities are important for contemporary life, but they are difficult to define and measure. In this talk, I will explore four ways that communities are often defined: as a population, as a place, as a network cluster, and as a balanced network. In each case, I consider the advantages and disadvantages of the approach. I then take a closer look at how each of these approaches can help us better understand communities in US politics, where traditional approaches define communities by political parties (i.e. as a population), but recent work that defines communities by collaboration and opposition (i.e. as a balanced network) reveals subtle new patterns.

Enquiry
Department of Sociology
7131
soc@hkbu.edu.hk

Website
https://socweb.hkbu.edu.hk/