Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AYBS202 4. Semester 0 + 0 0 5.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
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Goals The purpose of Social Network Analysis is to analyze the relationships between phenomena such as people, information, events and places on Social Media Networks, to analyze this collection of relationships as a network, to find useful information and to help explain the situations on social networks based on this information. Using Social Network Analysis methods (both theory and computational tools), this course will help to extract meaningful information about social media and information networks that can be accessed via the internet today.
Course Content Social Network Analysis Concepts (nodes, relationships, neighborhood matrices, node degrees etc.); Random Network Models; Network Centrality; Network Prestige (Network Prestige); Virtual Community Concepts (virtual community structures, clustering in virtual communities, etc.); Small World Network Models; Opinion formation, coordination and cooperation in Virtual Environment, Applications of Social Network Analysis; Today's Social Media Networks (Online Social Networks)
Learning Outcomes 1) It will gain knowledge and skills to learn and apply the basic concepts of Social Media and Information Network Analysis.
2) It will gain the ability to find and extract information from data stacks on Social Media and Information Networks.
3) It will gain the ability to analyze, visualize and find communities on social networks.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week What are Social Media and Information Networks and why should we work? Concepts: nodes, relations, neighborhood matrix, degree of nodes Lecture
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2. Week Random Network Models. Lecture
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3. Week Network centrality and Network prestige. Concepts: betweenness, proximity, prestige, eigenvector centrality, network centrality. Lecture
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4. Week Social Media Communities. Concepts: virtual community structures, clustering in virtual communities. Lecture

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5. Week Small World Network Models. Lecture
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6. Week Opinion Formation, Coordination and Collaboration in Virtual Environment. Lecture
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7. Week Social Network Analysis. Lecture
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8. Week Midterm Lecture
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9. Week Repetition of Topics. Lecture
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11. Week Repetition of Topics. Lecture
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12. Week Repetition of Topics. Lecture
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13. Week Repetition of Topics. Lecture
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14. Week Repetition of Topics. Lecture
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Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, David Easley, Jon Kleinberg, ISBN-10: 0521195330.

Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program RequirementsContribution LevelDK1DK2DK3
PY15000
PY25000
PY35000
PY45000
PY75000

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
. 14 5
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 5
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 2 2
Final Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Final Exam 2 2
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
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