Homophily
Section outline
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Le8 - Tue Oct. 25, 2022 Recap on the meaning of centrality measures; 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; Pearson's coefficient; Structural disassortativity; Structural and natural cutoffs; Random rewiring; Detecting echo-chambers through polarisation and homophily.
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Le9 - Mon Nov. 7, 2022 Social networks examples; Extracting the leaning from network data in pro-life/pro-choice hashtag networks.
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