Applied Social Network Analysis for Communication Research - Interactive curriculae of TU Ilmenau

The course requires basic knowledge or affinity of field of social media communication, network analysis and R

Students are expected to learn the following things during the course:

• Theoretical understanding of Network Analysis
• Understand basic data structures required for Network analysis
• Automated Web data scrapping particularly social media data
• Data munging and transforming
• Visualizing networks

The course is structured to make students aware usability of social media data for network analysis. Moreover, the course is primarily focused on communicating climate change issue and how the debate around this topic exists on social media. In the course, students are expected to learn different data structures and will be trained to use Twitter data. The instructor will make sure students get comfortable in using programming language R for data scrapping and analyzing. Finally, students will develop an understanding to visualize and explain different networks.

• Stinerock, R. (2018): Statistics with R – A Begniner’s Guide. New Delhi: Sage
• Field, A. (2012): Discovering Statistics Using R. London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage.
• Robins, G. (2015): Doing Social Network Research: Network-based Research Design for Social Scientists. London: Sage
• Häussler, T. (2017): Heating up the debate? Measuring fragmentation and polarisation in a German climate change hyperlink network. Social Network. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2017.10.002

Frequent and active participation during class and research presentation – Preparing a Term Paper

Dieses Modul enthält mindestens eine alternative semesterbegleitende Abschlussleistung. Bitte beachten Sie, dass diese in der Regel schon zu Beginn des Semesters, in dem diese angeboten wird, angemeldet werden muss.
Über die Details und Zeiträume dazu werden Sie vom Lehrenden und/oder dem Prüfungsamt informiert. Fragen Sie gegebenenfalls unbedingt beim Lehrenden nach.

This module contains at least one alternative exam part. Please note that this must usually be registered at the beginning of the semester in which it is offered.
The lecturer and/or the examination office will inform you about the details and time periods. If necessary, be sure to ask the lecturer.

Frequent and active participation during class and research presentation – Preparing a Term Paper