What is 'meta-data'?

Social Network Data; who talks and interacts with whom.

Some basic Social Network Data types;

Undirected Directed

Valued Non-valued

Qualified Unqualified

Single post made by a user of the Oldham BNP web site.

Let us take a look at some visualisation software using a data set you all might be familiar with.

Images from Park, Thelwall & Kluver (2005) Political Hyperlinking in South Korea: Technical Indicators of Ideology and Content in Sociological Research Online, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/3/park.html

Third party sites collapsed into five types.

Image 17.0: Community Structure of political blogs (expanded set) (Adamic & Glance 2005: 4)

Image 18.0, 18.1 and 18.2: Aggregate citation Behaviour prior to the 2004 election (Adamic & Glance, 2005: 7)

Social Contact Layer

Hyperlink Layer