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Dear list members,

A colleague and I are looking for social network datasets where actors
exhibit homophily i.e. similar individuals more likely to form network
ties with one another. We are only interested in homophily over
attributes which can be chosen by the actors - political affiliation
(right/left) and brand preference (e.g. over music, consumer items)
are good examples. An example of a network dataset we are already
working with is the hyperlink network of approx. 1500 political
bloggers (coded as conservative or liberal) from Adamic, L. and
Glance, N. (2005) "The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S.
election: Divided they blog".

I will be happy to post back to this list the details of
publicly-available network datasets (fitting the criterion) that we
find out about. If you have a dataset that is not publicly available,
we of course would be happy to give appropriate attribution if we can
use it in our research.

Rob
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Dr Robert Ackland
Fellow and Masters Coordinator, Australian Demographic and Social
Research Institute, The Australian National University

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