Networks in the Global World 2018 // Programme Committee

NetworksPRINCIPLES inBEHIND the Global Programme WorldSTRUCTURES:2018 and Abstracts PATTERNS OF COMPLEXITY IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES AND BEYOND 4—6 JULY ST. PETERSBURG 2018 RUSSIA NetworksPRINCIPLES inBEHIND the Global Programme WorldSTRUCTURES:2018 and Abstracts PATTERNS OF COMPLEXITY IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES AND BEYOND ORGANIZERS The Centre for German and European Studies Saint Petersburg State University Bielefeld University CONTENTS 6 // CONFERENCE CONCEPT 7 // PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 8 // KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS 9 Keynote Speakers 11 Invited Speakers 14 // PROGRAMME AND VENUE 15 Venue Plan 16 Conference Schedule 17 Detailed Programme 22 // KEYNOTE TALKS 26 // SESSIONS 27 Socio-Semantic Networks 33 Qualitative Network Analysis 39 Social Networks as Valuation Devices: Reputation, Ranking, Recommendations 42 Social Media Networks 45 Mixed Methods in Network Analysis 51 Networks of International Organizations and Associations 55 Statistical Network Modelling 63 Networks of the Asia-Pacific Region 65 Network Analysis of Political and Policy-Making Domains 74 Networks in Educational Environment 79 New Perspectives on Science and Technology Networks 83 Network Analysis of Cultural and Social Duality 86 Shaping Social Media Discourse: The Roles of People, Institutions, Algorithms, and Other Network Agents 90 Networked City: The Multiplicity of Urban Links and Nodes 92 Round Table: Networks of States and Persons in International Institutions 93 // WORKSHOPS 100 // CONFERENCE STATISTICS 101 // PRACTICAL INFORMATION 102 Map of the Conference Area 105 Electricity and Phone Calls 103 Support and Accommodation Options 106 Metro in St. Petersburg 104 Dining 107 Bridges 105 Banks, Money Exchange, ATMs 107 Airport Transportation 105 Copy Shop 108 Museums 109 // INDEX CONFERENCE CONCEPT The primary goal of the NetGloW conference series in St. Petersburg is to bring together networks researchers from around the globe, to unite the eff orts of various scientific disciplines in response to the key challenges faced by network scholarship today, and to exchange original research results—thus enabling analysis of global social processes as well as theoretical and methodological advancements. NetGloW series took off in 2012, with the conference subtitled “Structural Transformations in Europe, the US and Russia”, and hosted researchers, political practitioners and business representatives from all around the world to highlight the challenges catalyzed by the growing importance of networks in the world and to refl ect on these societal transformations. The 2014 event mainly focused on the issue of linking theoretical and methodological developments in network analysis. NetGloW’16 thematically revolved around relations between diverse networks and mainly dealt with comparisons of networks across cultures, societies, states, economies, and cities,—with a primary focus on European societies. In 2018, the main conference topic is devoted to the principles bringing to life various kinds of networks, whether those are inter-personal networks, semantic networks, organizational networks, materi- al networks, spatial networks, or other. The conference particularly welcomes comparative studies that use empirical data to reveal invariant principles of structure formation, whether those are characteristic of a certain type of networks, a particular kind of empirical setting, a specific culture or are operative in diff erent networks, settings and cultures—in Europe and around the world. Main subject areas of the NetGloW conference series and the overall approach will remain the same in 2018: the focus on advances in network analysis combining diff erent types of methods and data to jointly address various kinds of networks compared across cultures, societies, states, economies, and cities,—with a primary focus on European societies. Like before, a particular emphasis will be on linkag- es between theory, method and applications, considering how theory-driven principles can be tested and which settings are suitable for such investigations. 6 / NETWORKS IN THE GLOBAL WORLD 2018 // PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Dr. Nikita Basov, St. Petersburg State University Dr. Dimitris Christopoulos, MODUL University Vienna Dr. Jana Diesner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Iina Hellsten, University of Amsterdam Prof. John Levi Martin, University of Chicago Prof. John Mohr, University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Aleksandra Nenko, NRU ITMO Prof. Tom Snijders, University of Groningen Dr. Peng Wang, Swinburne University of Technology // PRINCIPLES BEHIND STRUCTURES: PATTERNS OF COMPLEXITY IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES AND BEYOND / 7 KEYNOTE 01 // AND INVITED SPEAKERS pp. 9-13 8 / NETWORKS IN THE GLOBAL WORLD 2018 // KEYNOTE SPEAKERS PETER BEARMAN // Columbia University in the City of New York Peter Bearman is the Director of INCITE, the Cole Professor of Social Science, and Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program. He was the founding director of ISERP, serving from the Institute’s launch in 2000 until 2008. A specialist in network analysis, he co-designed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. A recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2007, Bearman investigat- ed the social determinants of the autism epidemic. He has also conducted research in historical sociology, including “Relations into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norfolk, England, 1540-1640” (Rut- gers, 1993). He is the author of “Doormen” (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He is currently working on models for event sequences, social action, and strategies for qualitative research design; the neural signatures of social relations; and leading the REALM project on fair labor recruitment. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. JOHN LEVI MARTIN // University of Chicago John Levi Martin received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was recently a professor, after being a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an assistant professor at Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick. He is now a professor at the University of Chicago at Chicago, where he enjoys teaching classical theory and writing about himself in the third person. He is best known for his mathematical modeling of the occupational standing of imag- inary animals in a single children’s book; he has also written on, and occasionally researched, the formal properties of belief systems and social structures, the constitutional convention of 1787, the rationali- zation of infantry war, and the use of race as a conceptual category in American sociology. He recently finished a book that he started ten years ago, and enjoyed it so much that he is seriously considering reading another one again some time in the future. // PRINCIPLES BEHIND STRUCTURES: PATTERNS OF COMPLEXITY IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES AND BEYOND / 9 01 // // KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS // KEYNOTE SPEAKERS TOM SNIJDERS // University of Groningen Tom A.B. Snijders is Professor of Methodology and Statistics in the Department of Sociology of the Facul- ty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen, and at the University of Oxford he is emeritus fellow of Nuff ield College and an associate member of the Department of Statistics. In Gronin- gen, he works in the ICS (Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology), a research school that is a cooperative activity of the Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, and Nijmegen. His main research interests are the following: social network analysis, statistical methods for social networks and in network evolution, multilevel analysis of the textbook on Multilevel Analysis, written by himself and Roel Bosker, social science statistics in general, mathematical sociology, item response theory. Tom Snijders is associate editor of “Social Networks”, “Annals of Applied Statistics” and “Journal of Social Structure”, member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Methodology”, member of the European Acad- emy of Sociology, member of the Editorial Board of the “Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series” of Chapman & Hall/CRC, member of Conseil Scientifique, Laboratoire d”Excellence Structuration des Mondes Sociaux, Toulouse, member of Scientific Council, Institute for Advanced Studies, Toulouse. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in the Social Sciences at the University of Stockholm and in 2011 he received a honorary doctorate from the Université Paris-Dauphine. ROBIN WAGNERPACIFICI // New School for Social Research Robin Wagner-Pacifici is University in Exile Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. She has written on social, political, and violent confl ict and its termination. She is the author of The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Confl ict’s End (University of Chicago Press, 2005), Theoriz- ing the Standoff : Contingency in Action (Cambridge University Press, 2000), winner of the ASA Culture Section best book award, Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadelphia vs MOVE (University of Chicago Press, 1994), and The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama (University of Chicago Press, 1986), and most recently, What is an Event? (University of Chicago Press, 2017). A collaboration analyzing off icial national security texts draws from both close (hermeneutic) and distant (computation- al) approaches to textual analysis. That project has generated several publications, ultimately aiming to map relational

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