Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
anbei der Call for Papers für die Netzwerkkonferenz "Content Meets Structure - Different Perspectives on Social Networks".
Ich freue mich über zahlreiche Einreichungen.
Mit besten Grüßen
Lydia Repke
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Call for Papers
Content Meets Structure - Integrating Different Perspectives on Social Networks
September 28-30, 2020 Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Heidelberg, Germany
Theme of the Conference
Social interactions can be found everywhere in our world. By engaging with each other, people, institutions, and other types of actors form social relationships. The emerging patterns can be viewed as a social network. While the network content (Who are the network members?) is in itself interesting, the network structure (How are the network members connected to each other?) allows specific insights into selection and influence processes: Who provides what type of social support to whom? Which types of ties lead to the spread of specific diseases? Do different personality types enable distinct network forms?
Social networks are part of the public discourse and are used in a variety of disciplines. The result is a high variety of research questions, analytical approaches, levels of analysis, and types of data. In short: very different perspectives. Bringing these together, new ideas may develop that help overcome methodological, theoretical, and subject-specific challenges that scholars face during the research process. "Content Meets Structure" is meant as a space to exchange ideas and insights between network researchers from all disciplines.
Type of Presentations and Format of the Conference
This conference invites theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions from all fields of social networks. In addition to presentations by the participants, two special workshop sessions will offer insights into network modules from (inter-)national surveys and discuss analytical tools for more complex network analysis.
Submission Process, Timeline, and Fees
Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words plus 3-5 keywords) to content-meets-structure@hadw-bw.demailto:content-meets-structure@hadw-bw.de by April 20, 2020. After the review process and no later than June 1, 2020, you will get a notice about the decision regarding your paper. As this conference is sponsored by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, participation for presenters is free of charge.
We look forward to receiving your abstract submission.
Kind regards,
Lydia Repke
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Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Survey Design and Methodology
Dr. Lydia Repke Spokesperson of the Leibniz PostDoc Network
Phone: + 49 (0) 621 / 1246-581
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