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Mined Individuals in Large Networks
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2025
- Author: Christophe Prieur
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 4 6 8 - 5
Mined Individuals in Large Networks presents an overview of one century of research analyzing the growth of networks in our individualist societies, including methods from comp… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMined Individuals in Large Networks presents an overview of one century of research analyzing the growth of networks in our individualist societies, including methods from computer science to address questions within social sciences. The book shows how, with huge data sets, it is possible to gather vast amounts of information on individuals from large scale and social networks.
At stake is the ability for the citizens to keep a grip on the social changes evolving around networking. The public concern about massive online surveillance shows the need for tools and methods that would not be only in the hands of some powerful happy few. Now that social network analysis is done by more computer scientists than social scientists, it is essential to remember the social implications of algorithms when they are applied to human beings.
- Offers an interdisciplinary perspective of mathematical and computational approaches in the use of large and local networks
- Bridges the gap between mathematical, computational, and sociological studies on information use and communication tools
- Contains a chronological review of literature from across these disciplines, to present a comparison of their impact on society
- Demonstrates how, with huge data sets, it is possible to gather vast amounts of information on individuals from large scale and social networks
Researchers or graduate students in the fields of networks and information processing as well as data mining, machine learning, social networks, information fusion, and embedded computing
Part I: One century of networksCh1: Networks, a self-fulfilling prophecy?Chronological review of literature along one century, with a sociological point of view.The society of individualsThe birth of social network analysisCommunication toolsThe new spirit of capitalism Online social networksCh2: Sorcerer's apprenticesReview of literature on today tools, with a computer science and maths point of viewLarge networks, small worldsData miningA computational social sciencePart II: Mining individuals in networksMethods and algorithms to analyse and compare local configurations in large networks, and to use local configurations in the global study of networks.Ch3: Small networks among large onesCh4: From local to global, and backPart III: ChangesSociological studies on the uses of information and communication tools and the changes they bring to the society. The work presented here is mainly based on large network analysis, with tools introduced in the previous chapters.Ch5: The network as a social toolCh6: Identity and privacy
- No. of pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2025
- Imprint: ISTE Press - Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780081004685
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Christophe Prieur
Christophe Prieur is Associate Professor within the Demographics Lab and Social History, Telecom ParisTech. He served as Associate Professor of Université Paris Diderot for 13 years. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Université Paris Diderot. His current research encompasses uses of social media, identity, individuals in large networks, social networks analysis, mining network data, complex networks and graph algorithms.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France