During most of the 20 th century, immigration to the United States had slowed considerably. When the United States changed to the immigration policy of family reunification in 1965, the source of immigrants shifted from Europe to South America, Central America, and Asia. With th…
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Economic and social impact of online social media have inspired a broad range of studies on the user behaviors and the improvement of the quality of user relationships, which are the keys to effective propagation of knowledge and information. However, these studies were constrai…
While the benefits of analysing social networks within the wider humanities are becoming more accepted, very little work of this kind has been done in medieval studies. This thesis seeks to begin to fill this lacuna by considering the advantages of examining historical moments t…
Overconfidence and its relationship to investor market participation is well established in the finance literature. The research into investors and social networks is only in its infancy, however. This thesis extends the literature by expanding on both subjects individually, the…
This study examines the new world divisions and polarizations that have emerged in the post-Cold War era. We draw on Michael Mann's model to distinguish four key areas of social power—ideological or cultural, economic, military, and political—one or more of which are privileged …
It has been suggested by the media and scholars alike that social media might be a potential solution for problems of political participation. To test this hypothesis, this thesis examines the content of political participation by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) as reflected…
Our focus is on the confluence of social networks and virtual organizations. In massively networked populations, ideologies and aspirations spread at phenomenally fast pace. The Arab spring, for instance, arose in Tunisia on December 17, 2010 and its effects were seen in several…
Social Network Analysis (SNA) has proven to be an extremely useful and powerful tool for studying decentralized illicit networks. Given the myriad of metrics in the SNA toolbox, the methodology has the power to uncover nuances that most other methodologies simply cannot. One suc…
Mathematical and computational interventions in the field of social networks have a fairly recent history. Social networks analysis exists at the intersection of several fields, including social sciences, psychology, organizational behavior, business studies, mathematics, physic…