Social Capital and Social Networks – Bridging Boundaries conference seems interesting. Moreover there is no registration fee and Junior scholars, graduate students and assistant professors, are invited to apply to attend the conference and receive lodging, meals, and up to $400 in travel expenses. The application deadline was May 5, 2005 (oops). I cannot make it but if you are in US, it is worth checking it.
From http://smallblue.research.ibm.com/projects/snvalue/ The goal of this project is to integrate financial capital, human capital and social network analysis to formally and quantitively define and model social capital. Our interest is to find out what are the real dollar value of social networks. Nine hundred and forty-eight dollars. That's the annual…
Past week I attended the Hypertext 2011 conference in Eindhoven where I presented the paper "Social networks of Wikipedia" discussing two different algorithms for extracting networks of conversations from User Talk pages in Wikipedia and evaluating them against the manual coding of all messages in User Talk pages of the…
The paper I wrote "Social networks of Wikipedia" got accepted for the 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia.If you are going to be as well in Eindhoven, on June 6-9, 2011, please let me know! If you are interested, you can read the entire paper, the abstract is below.…