The contributors in this book share, exchange, and develop new concepts,
ideas, principles, and methodologies in order to advance and deepen our
understanding of social networks in the new generation of Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled by Web 2.0, also referred
to as social media, to help policy-making. This interdisciplinary work
provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and graduate
students from sociology, behavioral science, computer science,
psychology, cultural studies, information systems, operations research
and communication to share, exchange, learn, and develop new concepts,
ideas, principles, and methodologies.
Emerging Research Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Social
Network Analysis and Mining will be of interest to researchers,
practitioners, and graduate students from the various disciplines listed
above. The text facilitates the dissemination of investigations of the
dynamics and structure of web based social networks. The book can be
used as a reference text for advanced courses on Social Network
Analysis, Sociology, Communication, Organization Theory,
Cyber-anthropology, Cyber-diplomacy, and Information Technology and
Justice.