INSNA 2011
Posted on March 1st, 2011 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on INSNA 2011
I attended my first INSNA conference in St. Pete Beach, FL from Feb 8-13, 2011. For the pre-conference workshops I attended the UCINET/NetDraw workshops 1 and 2, taught by Dan Halgin and Rich Dejordy, and Martin Everett and Steve Borgatti. One tip which is probably obvious to many, is to calculate your centrality measures in UCINET then import into NetDraw, rather than using NetDraw’s algorithms, which function differently. In the advanced workshop, we covered the matrix algebra tool, QAP regression, cliques, factions, core-periphery, equivalence, egonet change, two-mode centrality measures, among other topics. The first course was a good refresher, and the advanced course introduced some recent changes to the latest version of UCINET. During the conference, I attended sessions primarily in the Social Networks and Health track. Presentations at the conference I particulary liked were by Tom Valente on “Overlap and Distinctiveness in Adolescent Social Networks,” and another by Patricia Kissinger on “Sex and Drug HIV-risk Networks amonth Latino migrant men in New Orleans.” The last day of the conference, I presented my work during the poster session on the SNA of 3 years of data from the Tampa Bay Community Cancer Network. The poster expands the findings of my brief research article published in the Journal of Community Psychology and will be published in a future issue of the Annals of Anthropology Practice.