Introducing Network Analysis as a Research Technique . These are the seminar slides Graham used at Canberra University’s Inter-University Research Workshop Program , on Wednesday the 30th of January 2008. The seminar is organised into three sessions.
Session one:
- provides a brief history of network analysis;
- positions network analysis in the research traditions;
- explains why network analysis is useful, and why it is gaining traction now; and
- provides some examples across disciplines where network analysis is being used.
Session two:
- explains the differences between social, organisational and business network analysis;
- lists some of the visualisation and analysis tools that are available, and describes their strengths and weaknesses;
- shows some examples of the various maps (visualisations) that can be produced; and
- introduces the concepts of one and two mode networks, and attributes.
Session three:
- discusses how data might be collected and structured;
- includes a short exercise where attendees list their friendship network, with attributes, in an EXCEL spreadsheet;
- shows attendees how to bring their data into UCINET and NetDraw ;
- discusses some ethical considerations; and
- finishes by providing some presentation tips.
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