Seminar: What are communities in social networks?
Seminar|CCL20210318
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/