Projects and Polarization (3)
Section outline
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Le13 - Mon Nov 10, 2025 Project ideas presentations by Federico Mason and Lejla Dzanko
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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.
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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.
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