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Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Global Networks, Linked Cities

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In her pioneering book The Global City , Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the post-industrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socio-economic polarization.Global Networks, Linked Cities review. One effect has been that such cities have gained in importance and power relative to nation-states. In this new collection of essays, Sassen and a distinguished group of contributors expand on the author's earlier work in a number of important ways, focusing on two key issues. First, they look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks, creating a global city web whose constituent cities become 'global' through the networks they participate in. Second, they investigate emerging global cities in the developing world-Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Beirut, the Dubai-Iran corridor, and Buenos AiresRead full reviews of global networks, linked cities sassen, saskia.

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format paperback language english publication year 25 04 2002 subject geography environment agriculture subject 2 geography title global networks linked cities author sassen saskia publisher routledge publication date apr 25 2002 pages 352 binding paperback edition 1 st dimensions 6 00 wx 8 75 hx 0 75 d isbn 0415931630 subject business economics economics general description contributors extend saskia sassen s global cities thesis to consider the information architecture binding global cities

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Global Networks, Linked Cities by Saskia Sassen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New In her pioneering book i The Global City /i, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socio-economic polarization. One effect has been that such citi

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One effect has been that such cities have gained in importance and power relative to nation-states. In this new collection of essays, Sassen and a distinguished group of contributors expand on the author's earlier work in a number of important ways, focusing on two key issues. First, they look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks, creating a global city web whose constituent cities become 'global' through the networks they participate in. Second, they investigate emerging global cities in the developing world-Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Beirut, the Dubai-Iran corridor, and Buenos Aires. They show how these globalizing zones are not only replicating many features of the top tier of global cities, but are also generating new socio-economic patterns as well. These new patterns of development promise to lead to significant changes in the structure of the global economy, as more and more cities worldwide are integrated into globalization's circuitry. Includes contributions from: Linda Garcia, Patrice Riemens, Geert Lovink, Peter Taylor, David Smith, Michael Timberlake, Stephen Graham, Sueli Schiffer Ramos, Christoff Parnreiter, Felicity Gu, David Meyer, Pablo Ciccolella, Iliana Mignaqui, Eric Huybrechts, Ali ParsaReimagining cities as nodes of an immense network of commercial and political transactions, sociologist Saskia Sassen has transformed Information Age geography. Global Networks, Linked Cities collects research, theory, and case studies examining cities in this context by Sassen and 19 other social scientists, focusing particularly on the recent explosive growth in areas formerly--now inaccurately--called the Third World.

The jargon in Global Networks, Linked Cities can be fairly dense and the style arid, but the essays reward patient readers with insight into the interlinked worlds of finance, geography, communications, and geopolitics. Most of the pieces look closely at individual urban regions: Shanghai, Buenos Aires, and, interestingly, Beirut. All have much to tell us about the organic urban development coevolving with globalized commerce and communications, says editor Sassen. As barriers to free information flow erode, we see mergers between political, business, and academic entities.Global Networks, Linked Cities shows us how this is happening and how to think about what's coming next. --Rob Lightner

Friday, 7 May 2010

Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL

Author: Derek Hansen
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Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
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Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

Businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and government agencies alike are looking to social network analysis (SNA) tools for insight into trends, connections, and fluctuations in social media.Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL review. Microsoft's NodeXL is a free, open-source SNA plug-in for use with Excel. It provides instant graphical representation of relationships of complex networked data. But it goes further than other SNA tools -- NodeXL was developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts that bring together information studies, computer science, sociology, human-computer interaction, and over 20 years of visual analytic theory and information visualization into a simple tool anyone can use. This makes NodeXL of interest not only to end-users but also to researchers and students studying visual and network analytics and their application in the real worldRead full reviews of Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World.

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Review "Hansen, Shneiderman, and Smith, along with their collaborators, have written a readable introduction to the field of social media network analysis. Furthermore, the book is a nice tutorial on an interesting tool that readers can experiment with on their own. For example, the readers can simply use the Facebook application provided by Bernie Hogan, one of the book's collaborators, to analyze the ego networks that they know best: their own network of friends, family, and acquaintances. This book offers a sure way to understand some of the basic concepts of network analysis."--Computing R

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Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL by Derek Hansen

Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL : Paperback : ELSEVIER SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : 9780123822291 : 0123822297 : 14 Sep 2010 : Microsoft's NodeXL is a free, open-source SNA plug-in for use with Excel. It provides instant graphical representation of relationships of complex networked data. This title guide walks readers through using NodeXL while explaining the theory and development behind each step, providing takeaways that can apply any SNA.

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Microsoft's NodeXL is a free, open-source SNA plug-in for use with Excel. It provides instant graphical representation of relationships of complex networked data. But it goes further than other SNA tools -- NodeXL was developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts that bring together information studies, computer science, sociology, human-computer interaction, and over 20 years of visual analytic theory and information visualization into a simple tool anyone can use. This makes NodeXL of interest not only to end-users but also to researchers and students studying visual and network analytics and their application in the real world.

In Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL, members of the NodeXL development team up to provide readers with a thorough and practical guide for using the tool while also explaining the development behind each feature. Blending the theoretical with the practical, this book applies specific SNA instructions directly to NodeXL, but the theory behind the implementation can be applied to any SNA.

To learn more about Analyzing Social Media Networks and NodeXL, visit the companion site at www.mkp.com/nodexl

*Walks you through NodeXL, while explaining the theory and development behind each step, providing takeaways that can apply to any SNA

*Demonstrates how visual analytics research can be applied to SNA tools for the mass market

*Includes case studies from researchers who use NodeXL on popular networks like email, Facebook, Twitter, and wikis

Friday, 1 January 2010

Neighbor Networks

Author: Ronald S. Burt
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Neighbor Networks: Competitive Advantage Local and Personal

There is a moral to this book, which was awarded the 2011 George R.Neighbor Networks review. Terry Book Award, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing."

This advice is contrary to the usual social network emphasis on securing relations with well-connected people. Neighbor Networks examines the cases of analysts, bankers, and managers, and finds that rewards, in fact, do go to people with well-connected colleagues. Look around your organizationRead full reviews of Neighbor Networks: Competitive Advantage Local And Personal Ronald S. Burt.

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There is a moral to this book, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing." This advice is contrary to the usual social network emphasis on securing relations with well-connected people. Neighbor Networks examines the cases of analysts, bankers, and managers, and finds that rewards, in fact, do go to people with well-connected colleagues. Look around your organization. The individuals doing well tend to be affiliated with well-connected colleagues. However, the advantage obvious to the naked eye is misleading.

Neighbor Networks: Competitive Advantage Local And Personal Ronald S. Burt

author ronald s burt format paperback language english publication year 07 07 2011 subject management business economics industry subject 2 management business general title neighbor networks competitive advantage local and personal author ronald s burt publisher oup oxford publication date sep 15 2011 pages 389 binding paperback edition reprint dimensions 6 25 wx 9 25 hx 0 75 d isbn 0199691916 subject business economics organizational behavior description there is a moral to this book a bit o

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Terry Book Award, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing."

This advice is contrary to the usual social network emphasis on securing relations with well-connected people. Neighbor Networks examines the cases of analysts, bankers, and managers, and finds that rewards, in fact, do go to people with well-connected colleagues. Look around your organization. The individuals doing well tend to be affiliated with well-connected colleagues.

However, the advantage obvious to the naked eye is misleading. It disappears when an individual's own characteristics are held constant. Well-connected people do not have to affiliate with people who have nothing to offer. This book shows that affiliation with well-connected people adds stability but no advantage to a person's own connections. Advantage is concentrated in people who are themselves well connected.

This book is a trail of argument and evidence that leads to the conclusion that individuals make a lot of their own network advantage. The social psychology of networks moves to center stage and personal responsibility emerges as a key theme. In the end, the social is affirmed, but with an emphasis on individual agency and the social psychology of networks. The research gives new emphasis to Coleman's initial image of social capital as a forcing function for human capital.

This book is for academics and researchers of organizational and network studies interested in a new angle on familiar data, and as a supplemental reading in graduate courses on social networks, stratification, or organizations. A variety of research settings are studied, and diverse theoretical perspectives are taken. The book's argument and evidence are supported by ample appendices for readers interested in background details.

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Economic Analyses of Social Networks

Author: Matthew O. Jackson
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ISBN: 1781006431
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Economic Analyses of Social Networks (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series)

'The economic importance of social interactions not mediated by the market has long been recognized.Economic Analyses of Social Networks review. However, it is only the emergence of network analysis that has supplied a useful method of study. The editors have performed a signal service by their anthology of important articles. They have covered all the major studies and represented well the rapid emergence of a new and important field, to which they have been among the most significant contributors.'
- Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University, US

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format hardback language english publication year 31 03 2013 series the international library of critical writings in economics series subject management business economics industry subject 2 economics textbooks study guides title economic analyses of social networks author jackson matthew editor zenou yves editor publisher edward elgar pub publication date may 13 2013 pages 1740 binding hardcover isbn 1781006431 subject business economics economics microeconomics brand new hardcover all orders

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Economic Analysis of Social Common Capital by Hirofumi Uzawa Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New This book analyzes how natural resources, social infrastructure, and institutions might be optimally sustained. Publisher Description Social common capital provides members of society with those services and institutional arrangements that are crucial in maintaining human and cultural life. Social common capital is com

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However, it is only the emergence of network analysis that has supplied a useful method of study. The editors have performed a signal service by their anthology of important articles. They have covered all the major studies and represented well the rapid emergence of a new and important field, to which they have been among the most significant contributors.'
- Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University, US

This comprehensive two-volume set brings together important contributions providing fundamental economic analyses of social networks and the central roles they play in many facets of our lives. The first volume consists of classic articles that model network formation and games on networks, as well as those on the identification of peer effects from an econometric viewpoint. The second volume provides empirical analyses of network effects on labor, education, development, crime and industrial organization, as well as some laboratory and field experiments.

This set of indispensable papers, with an original introduction by the editors, will prove an essential tool to researchers, scholars and practitioners involved in this field.

60 articles, dating from 1975 to 2012
Contributors include: D. Acemoglu, Y. Bramoullé, A. Calvó-Armengol, M. Fafchamps, S. Goyal, M. Granovetter, R. Kranton, C. Manski, R. Myerson, L. Yariv

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Theories of Communication Networks

Author: Peter R. Monge
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Theories of Communication Networks

To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems.Theories of Communication Networks review. First, it tends to be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications. Second, it explores single levels of analysis rather than the multiple levels out of which most networks are comprised. Third, network analysis has employed very little the insights from contemporary complex systems analysis and computer simulations. Foruth, it typically uses descriptive rather than inferential statistics, thus robbing it of the ability to make claims about the larger universe of networksRead full reviews of Theories Of Communication Networks By Monge (uo).

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Theories of Communication Networks by Peter R. Monge, Noshir Contractor Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications. Second, it explores single levels of analysis rather than the multiple levels out of which most networks are comprised. Third

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WingSpan Press 9781595943422 Advances in Systems Theory: Control, Communication Networks, Production Systems Rational Behavior Description A Tribute to Professor Semyon M. Meerkov on his 70th Birthday This volume grew out of the friendship and appreciation that the editors and contributors have for Professor Semyon M. Meerkov as a scholar and mentor. Its purpose is to highlight the mentorship achievements of Professor Meerkov and to honor him on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It consists of

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First, it tends to be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications. Second, it explores single levels of analysis rather than the multiple levels out of which most networks are comprised. Third, network analysis has employed very little the insights from contemporary complex systems analysis and computer simulations. Foruth, it typically uses descriptive rather than inferential statistics, thus robbing it of the ability to make claims about the larger universe of networks. Finally, almost all the research is static and cross-sectional rather than dynamic.
Theories of Communication Networks presents solutions to all five problems. The authors develop a multitheoretical model that relates different social science theories with different network properties. This model is multilevel, providing a network decomposition that applies the various social theories to all network levels: individuals, dyads, triples, groups, and the entire network. The book then establishes a model from the perspective of complex adaptive systems and demonstrates how to use Blanche, an agent-based network computer simulation environment, to generate and test network theories and hypotheses. It presents recent developments in network statistical analysis, the p* family, which provides a basis for valid multilevel statistical inferences regarding networks. Finally, it shows how to relate communication networks to other networks, thus providing the basis in conjunction with computer simulations to study the emergence of dynamic organizational networks.