Week 11: Communities and Core-periphery

Content for the week of Monday, March 30, 2026

Tuesday

Assignment Due:

• Reading Review
• Visualization Challenge
• Sign up for a Self Reflection Discussion on my calendar
  • Please prioritize office hours (Tuesdays from 2-4)

Readings:

• Girvan, M., & Newman, M. E. (2002). Community structure in social and biological networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Barberá, P., Wang, N., Bonneau, R., Jost, J. T., Nagler, J., Tucker, J., & González-Bailón, S. (2015). The critical periphery in the growth of social protests. PLoS ONE.
  • Claude.ai Summary
• (Optional) Hanneman, R. A., & Riddle, M. (2005). Cliques and sub-groups. In Introduction to social network methods. University of California.

Video Lecture:

[23:15]

• Slides

Thursday

Class Schedule:

• How the Internet Works Activity