Spatializing Social Media: Social Networks Online And Offline

The book outlines the theoretical and methodological challenges in analyzing social networks that overlap online and offline. It offers an introduction to concepts, theories, and methods that sit at the crossroads between spatial and social network analysis. It explores a range of networks and discusses methods and approaches to plot a social network graph onto a map. The book takes a non-mathematical approach to social networks and spatial statistics. A bespoke R package using igraph and network provides the online tools needed for mapping and graphing. Suitable for postgraduate students in sociology, psychology and the social sciences--

• | Author: Marco Bastos
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: 20-Aug-21
• | Number of Pages: 188 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367374218
• | ISBN-13: 9780367374211