Social Network Resources

Web sites that might prove useful for this course

An accessible electronic introduction to Social Network Analysis

· Robert Hanneman’s introduction to Social Networks

International Network for Social Network Analysis

· http://www.insna.org/

home page for all sorts of goodies, including information about the Sunbelts, the journal Social Networks, the journal Connections, etc,subscribing to SOCNET.

Journal of Social Structure

· http://www.cmu.edu/joss/

UC Irvine’s Program in Social Network Analysis

· http://aris.ss.uci.edu/socnet/socnet.html

Software

UCINET V

· http://www.analytictech.com/

Pajek

· http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/

An amazing program for drawing large networks

Data

Carnegie Mellon data archive (part of CASOS)

· http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/computational_tools/data.html

The Add Health Project

· http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth/

Just for Fun…

The Kevin Bacon Game

· http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/

A network-based role-playing game on the web…

· http://www.powersedge.net

They Rule

· http://www.theyrule.net

Linked In

· https://www.linkedin.com/

Friendster

· http://www.friendster.com/

Other Resources

· UCINET Manual

· Network handouts from Steve Borgatti (available from Analytic technologies website)

· xeroxed index to volumes 1-20 of Social Networks

A Few of the many online booksellers

http://www.powells.com (one of the really great bookstores in the Pacific NW)

http://www.amazon.com (Seattle’s own...)

http://www.bn.com (much better than amazon for out-of print titles)