Readings--

Week 13	The following 9 short articles are accessible on-line with temporary permission from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The articles are from the issue dated June 25, 2004. Links will expire on: January 1, 2006 Inside the Multimillion-Dollar World of Diploma Mills By Thomas Bartlett and By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=cpqynhcrkqq2pl2vtn3q4gpd6r1yq2y2 Psst. Wanna Buy a Ph.D.? By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=gqmdntc26rm9hsk681rvv1r89qdsd8zv A Small World ("family tree" graphic) By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i42/42a01001.htm **"A Small World" is an interactive graphic and accessible to Chronicle subscribers only. Apologies to those who are not, but the Chronicle can not generate a free link to this piece. Maxine Asher Has a Degree for You By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=f01ywm6pbsyclr830wcxnhm77cbq9jnq The Hypnotist Who Married Lana Turner By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=dmzb2x123z731pyb8qkr0vvfdth87d3m The University of Spam By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=184p0dzrxz550pshrc9k422bynpwc3kf Tilting at Diploma Mills By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=3dsw909dmghdr1ww3dl1njpg0ty197yf What's a Diploma Mill? By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=81l3q0ry69nhdjqdbtw7cpxkv4yt5thf 'Let Me Be Honest With You ... ' By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=lx695kgyft0k6sj47qfqmdtkv47x1lrm THE FOLLOWING BOOK EXCERPT IS FOR SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS ONLY.  THIS FILE WILL BE REMOVED AFTER NOVEMBER 14. Allen Ezell and John Bear (2005), Degree Mills: The Billion-dollar Industry That Has Sold Over A Million Fake Diplomas. Introduction and Chapter 1 (pp. 13-57.) pdf
Week 12	Discussion
Week 11	David Stark, Balázs Vedres (Forthcoming:2006), "Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary". American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 111, No 5. pdf Balázs Vedres, László Bruszt and David Stark (2005), "Organizing Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe".  The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 597, No. 1, 171-188. pdf David Stark (2005), "For a Sociology of Worth," forthcoming in Vando Borghi and Tommaso Vitale, eds., Le convenzioni del lavoro, il lavoro delle convenzioni, Milan. pdf David Stark et al (2005), "Global Links, Local Roots: Varieties of Transnationalization and Forms of Civic Integration." pdf Monique Girard and David Stark (2005), "Socio-technologies of Assembly: Sense-Making and Demonstration in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan," forthcoming in David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, eds., Governance and Information: The Rewiring of Governing and Deliberation in the 21st Century (Oxford Univ. Press.) This paper is related to Stark's public lecture, October 31, 4pm, Third Floor, Levis. pdf
Week 10 Break- Out	Readings for Wednesday modeling break-out session(For copies of these readings, please contact Hank Green at hgreenjr@stat.psych.uiuc.edu): Tom A.B. Snijders et al (2004), "New Specifications for Exponential Random Graph Models." Garry Robbins et al (2005), "A Workshop on Exponential Random Graph (p*) Models for Social Networks." The following readings are chapters from Carrington, Scott and Wasserman, eds (2005), Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis. Stanley Wasserman and Garry Robins, "An Introduction to Random Graphs, Dependence Graphs, and p*. Laura M. Koehly and Philippa Pattison, "Random Graph Models for Social Networks: Multiple Relations or Multiple Raters". Garry Robins and Phillippa Pattison, "Interdependencies and Social Processes: Dependence Graphs and Generalized Dependence Structures".
Week10:	Jana Diesner and Kathleen Carley, "Exploration of Communication Networks from the Enron Email Corpus." pdf Kathleen Carley et al (2003), "Bio War: Scalable Agent-based Model of Bioattacks." pdf Kathleen Carley, "Dynamic Network Analysis for Counter-Terrorism." pdf
Week9:	Richard John, "Network Nation:  How Politics Shaped American Telecommunications" (under contract with Harvard University Press).   Chapter 1: "How Politics Shaped American Telecommunications" pdf   Chapter 8: "Nickel-in-the-Slot."  pdf   Please note that these texts are not to be cited or reproduced without the written permission of the author (rjohn@uic.edu.)
Week8:	No Seminar Meeting
Week7:	Mueller, Mathiason, & Klein (forthcoming, Global Governance), "The Internet and Global Governance: Principles and Norms for a New Regime", MS Word file Table 1 (from UNICTTF report) pdf Table 2 (from UNICTTF report) pdf Mueller writes: "The timing [for my visit] is quite good as the UN WSIS Prepcom 3 is coming to a close and the focus is on the issues I will be talking about. In case it would be helpful I have attached a newspaper article about it which is NOT accurate descriptively but accurately reflects contention over the way the issue is being framed." Related link
Week6:	(Proposals due.)
Week5:	1. Barney D. (2004). The Network Society, Chapter 3. pdf 2. Barney D. (2004). The Network Society, Chapter 4. pdf 3. Barney D. (2004). The Network Society, Chapter 6. pdf
Week4:	Required: 1. A smooth intro: Albert-László Barabási and E. Bonabeau, Scale-Free Networks. Scientific American 288, 60-69 (2003) pdf 2. And some specifics: Albert-László Barabási and Réka Albert, Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 286, 509-512 (1999). pdf 3. R. Albert, H. Jeong, and A.-L. Barabási, Error and attack tolerance in complex networks. Nature 406 , 378 (2000). pdf Recommended: 1. For those who really love the math: Réka Albert and Albert-László Barabási Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Reviews of Modern Physics 74, 47 (2002). pdf file 2. Finally, those who got lost of time, or are trully into networks:link
Week3:	(no class)
Week2:	Duncan J. Watts, Roby Muhamad, Daniel C. Medina, and Peter S. Dodds (2005.) "Multiscale, resurgent epidemics in a hierarchical metapopulation model." pdf file . *PPT slides of Watts' talk: ppt. *Video streaming of Watts' talk in rm format: video
Week1:	1. Theories of Communications Networks 2. The Network Society