***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** These may be relevant.. Rich > Ilany, Barocas, Koren, Kam, Geffen (2013) Structural balance in the social networks of a wild mammal. Animal Behaviour. > http://www.nimbios.org/press/FS_hyrax > > Srinivasan (2011), Local balancing influences global structure in social networks > http://www.pnas.org/content/108/5/1751.full > > The friend of my enemy is my enemy: Virtual universe study of structural balance > Szell, Lambiotte, Thurner (2010). Multirelational organization of large-scale social networks in an online world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719162510.htm > http://www.pnas.org/content/107/31/13636.full.pdf > > Leskovec, Huttenlocher, Kleinberg (2010), Predicting Positive and Negative Links in Online Social Media > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/www10-signed.pdf > http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/jkleinberg-slides.pdf > > Overview: Social Balance on Networks: The Dynamics of Friendship and Hatred > http://www.rit.edu/~w-cmmc/research/Tibor_Antal.pdf > > Brandes, Lerner (2008), Visualization of Conflict Networks > http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/algo/publications/bl-vcn-08.pdf > On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:30, Edmund Chattoe-Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > Dear All, > > Although I am far from expert, it also struck me, reading: > > Evans, K. M. (1962) Sociometry and Education, The International Library > of Sociology and Social Reconstruction (London: Routledge and Kegan > Paul). > > that the routine collection of negative tie information seems to have > declined. For school children, I can see that there would be ethical > issues. (What do you do if you discover everyone hates Johnson?) > > It is hard to see that these negative ties would not have significant > effects in real networks and thus that models not dealing with them > would be in some way inadequate. > > All the best, > > Edmund > -- > Edmund Chattoe-Brown (Department of Sociology, University of > Leicester, UK) > [log in to unmask] > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > > _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.