The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) is a professional
academic association
A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences. Membership may be open to al ...
of researchers and practitioners of
social network analysis
Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures in terms of ''nodes'' (individual actors, people, or things within the network) ...
.
History
INSNA was founded in 1977 by
Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman (30 September 1942 – 9 July 2024) was an American-Canadian sociologist and was the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network. His areas of research were community sociology, the Internet, human–computer i ...
, a
sociologist. A key function of the organization was to provide a sense of identity for a set of researchers who were widely dispersed geographically and across scientific disciplines.
Shortly after INSNA was founded,
Linton C. Freeman founded the association's flagship journal, ''
Social Networks
A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of meth ...
'', in 1978.
Early meetings were invitation-only, but in 1980
H. Russell Bernard and
Alvin Wolfe
Alvin William Wolfe (March 1, 1928 – June 25, 2024) was an American anthropologist, a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus from University of South Florida, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...
inaugurated the series of annual "Sunbelt" meetings open to all.
A full chronology of INSNA leadership is as follows:
As of 2018, INSNA has approximately 1,000 active members, while the SOCNET listserv has about 3700 subscribers.
As well as publishing a triannual journal
Connections
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Television
* '' Connections: An Investigation into Organized Crime in Canada'', a documentary television series
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on the subject, INSNA also:
*Runs SOCNET, a listserv mailing-list for the subject.
*Hosts the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference annually.
*Facilitates regional and specialized conferences.
*Publishes a quarterly journal, ''Social Networks''.
*Publishes the online ''Journal of Social Structure'', irregular periodicity.
Journal of Social Structure
online journal, irregular periodicity.
*Provides links to researchers around the world.
*Provides raw data.
See also
*Social network
A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of Dyad (sociology), dyadic ties, and other Social relation, social interactions between actors. The social network per ...
*Social network analysis software
Social network analysis (SNA) software is software which facilitates quantitative analysis of behavior, quantitative or qualitative research, qualitative social network analysis, analysis of social networks, by describing features of a network eit ...
*Dynamic Network Analysis
Dynamic network analysis (DNA) is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis (SNA), link analysis (LA), social simulation and multi-agent systems (MAS) within network science and network theory. Dynamic ...
References
External links
INSNA
website.
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Social network analysis
Social sciences organizations
Organizations established in 1977