MSc Web Science – Week 23

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This week I have been getting to grips with OWL (Web Ontology Language) – using an interesting tool called Protége.

This week’s readings (some require subscription access):

COMP6050 – Semantic Web for Web Science

• Same as last week.

COMP6052 Social Networking Technology

List taken from lecture slides:

• French, J.R.P. and Raven,B. (1959).‘The bases of social power’, in D. Cartwright (ed.) Studies in Social Power. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. [pdf]
• Lukes, S., 2005. Power: A Radical View 2nd ed., Palgrave Macmillan [Google Books]
• Russell, B, 1948. Power. A New Social Analysis Sixth , London: Unwin Brothers. [Google Books]
• Castells, M, 2009. Communication Power, OUP Oxford.
• Gladwell, M. 2002. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books.
• Adar, E., Zhang, L., Adamic, L. A., & Lukose, R. M. (2004, May). Implicit structure and the dynamics of blogspace. In Workshop on the weblogging ecosystem (Vol. 13, No. 1). [pdf]
• Adar, E., & Adamic, L. A. (2005). Tracking information epidemics in blogspace. In  Proceedings of The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web intelligence, 2005.(pp. 207-214). IEEE. [pdf]
• Matsumura, N., Yamamoto, H., & Tomozawa, D. (2008, March). Finding Influencers and Consumer Insights in the Blogosphere. In ICWSM.
• Leavitt, A., Burchard, E., Fisher, D. and Gilbert, S. (2009) The Influentials: New Approaches for Analyzing Influence on Twitter. A Publication of the Web Ecology Project. [pdf]
• Cha, M., Haddadi, H., Benevenuto, F., and Gummadi, P. K. (2010). Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy. ICWSM, 10, 10-17. [pdf]
• McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., and Cook, J. M. (2001). Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks. In Annual Review of Sociology, 415-444.
• Rogers, E. M., and Bhowmik, D. K. (1970). Homophily-heterophily: Relational concepts for communication research. In Public Opinion Quarterly, 34(4), 523-538. [pdf]
• Simmel, G. (1950). The Stranger. In The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 402-408. [pdf]
• Huang, Y., Shen, C., Williams, D., and Contractor, N. S. (2009). Virtually There: Exploring Proximity and Homophily in a Virtual World. In CSE (4) (pp. 354-359). [pdf]Van Alstyne, M., and Brynjolfsson, E. (2005). Global village or cyber-balkans? Modeling and measuring the integration of electronic communities. In Management Science, 51(6), 851-868. [pdf]
• Granovetter, M. (1978). Threshold models of collective behavior. In American Journal of Sociology, 83(6), 1420-1443 [pdf]
• Krauss, J., Nann, S., Simon, D., Gloor, P. A., & Fischbach, K. (2008). Predicting Movie Success and Academy Awards through Sentiment and Social Network Analysis. In ECIS (pp. 2026-2037). [pdf]
• Morozov, E. (2009). Iran: Downside to the” twitter revolution”. In Dissent, 56(4), 10-14.
• Burns, A., & Eltham, B. (2009). Twitter free Iran: An evaluation of Twitter’s role in public diplomacy and information operations in Iran’s 2009 election crisis. [pdf]
• Schectman, J. (2009) Iran’s Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet. In Bloomberg Businessweek, June 17, 2009.

RESM6003 – Qualitative Methods

• NVivo

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