Seminar 'Network Effects All Around Us: Surprising Discoveries in Social Network Analysis'

The DASS programme invites listeners to an open day and a seminar, where together with the head of ANR-Lab Daria Maltseva we will talk about some discoveries in the field of Social Network Analysis (SNA): concepts and theories that explain social interactions with various network effects.

Social network analysis (SNA) is a direction in the field of social and human sciences that, when studying various social phenomena and processes, focuses on the connections between different units of analysis -- for example, employees in organizations, scientists in research teams, countries in various coalitions.

The study of social relations in the concepts of nodes, links and networks originates in the research of sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, political scientists, as well as mathematicians and statisticians since the 1970s. Modern digital technologies allow us to reach new levels of analysis of social systems, making it possible to study complex networks in dynamics and model them using advanced analysis algorithms, which attracts an increasing number of followers to network analysis.

Over the course of its existence, representatives of the direction of social network analysis have proposed many concepts, concepts and theories that allow us to explain various processes and phenomena in the field of social relations from the point of view of the effects that arise in social networks formed by members of communities and groups. The seminar participants will learn what makes weak ties strong, what the network broker phenomenon is, and will become familiar with the theory of six handshakes, the Matthew effect, and other concepts and models that can explain our daily social interactions from the perspective of network analysis.

The language of the open day is Russian.

You have to register to participate.

We are waiting for everyone on August 8 at 18.30!