In recent years, I have been a co-organizer for the organized session on Advances in socio-semantic network analysis at the Sunbelt conference. This session addresses an emerging framework, where semantic and social network data are being jointly appraise. Alongside presentations on work addressing  theoretical, methodological and empirical work at the nexus of social and semantic networks, this session also created a space for discussion (panels) on a number of theoretical and methodological...
Continue reading ...

Refugee or Migrant? Mixing methods for social media analysis

Continue reading ...

The network representation presented the overlap in research interests between researchers of multiple institutes, where the number of common research interests is represented by the width of the link. More details on this will follow.

Continue reading ...

In recent years, the precarious and unstable situation in the Middle East has pushed many to flee their countries and seek refuge in neighboring countries and in Europe. In April 2015, when five boats sank in the Mediterranean Sea, killing more than 1,200 people, the phrases "European migrant crisis" and "European refugee crisis" became widely used by media and politicians alike. Such phrases, serve as frames that alter perceptions and perhaps even influence behaviors. While “refugee” por...

Continue reading ...

In this paper, we analyze a combination of social and semantic networks extracted from news media articles on the recent European debt crisis. While most network research, so far, has focused on either social networks or semantic networks, we combine networks of entities (i.e., organizations and actors) and semantic networks to identify the discursive frames used to characterize these different entities. The use of socio-semantic networks in the analysis of discursive fames i...

Continue reading ...

Using semantic network analysis, we explore a combination of structural measures, the structural space method. This method proves valuable for a more comprehensive dynamic analysis of large formal discourse corpora. Formal discourse is characterized by repetitive, and perhaps uninformative top ranked concepts, which makes the more subtle dynamic discursive shifts difficult to recognize. Combining popularity and connectivity potential of concepts in semantic networks, we reveal important dynam...

Continue reading ...

A small project I am working on that is looking at co-autorships among scientists from different universities within the same scientific field. Because the data is under embargo, more details will follow. The structure of the network below is very interesting though! 



Continue reading ...

An interesting graph generated via Google Books Ngram Viewer for some of the key terms related to my area of expertise:
Continue reading ...