Section outline

    • Le13 - Mon Nov 10, 2025 Project ideas presentations by Federico Mason and Lejla Dzanko

    • Le14 - Fri Nov 14, 2025  Homophily and related concepts: Selective exposure, Polarization, Ego Chamber, Filter bubble; Degree homophily or assortativity; the correlation matrix; Nearest neighbour degree function and its exponent; Structural disassortativity; Structural and natural cutoffs; Random rewiring; Network robustness; Robustness of scale-free networks; Attack tolerance; Robustness optimization; An application example; Community detection problem: Granovetter's view and the role of weak ties; The core-periphery model and overlapping communities.

    • Le15 - Mon Nov 17, 2025 Interdisciplinary projects presentations by SNA students

      8:30 Intro,
      8:35 Film communities, 
      8:45 Framing AI-generated celebrity deepfakes, 
      8:55 Jeff Bezos wedding and the display of wealth and luxury, 
      9:05 K-pop soft power,
      9:15 Polarization effects in the disinformation on immigration,
      9:25 Enthusiasm and skepticism towards AI,
      9:35 Charlie Kirk's assassination,
      9:45 Discussion and group forming,
      10:00 End.