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Call for papers for a session on

 

“Negative Ties and Signed Graphs”

 

at the 3^rd European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN), September 26-29, 2017 at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany.

 

Session organizers:

 

Filip Agneessens, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey

Patrick Doreian, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana and Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

Alexandra Gerbasi, Centre for Leadership and Decision Making, University of Surrey

Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, LINKS Network Analysis Center, University of Kentucky

Joshua Marineau, Department of Management & Marketing, North Dakota State University

Károly Takács, MTA TK “Lendület” Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (RECENS), Budapest

 

Researchers are now increasingly aware of the co-existence of positive and negative ties in networks and the need to study them together so as to get a more accurate portrait of the networks' contents and dynamics. We invite abstracts for presentations on all aspects of studying signed networks, including theory, methods, and applications, to a session at the upcoming 3^rd European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN) at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany.

 

We encourage a wide range of submissions.  Example works includes (but are not limited to): Methods and measures pertaining to negative ties and signed graphs; understanding how threats within a network create needs for allies, and the implications for nodal power; examining where bullying emerges in schools or organizations; how perception of negative ties poses unique challenges in organizational research; and how subgroup fault lines affect intra- and inter-group conflict.

 

Please submit your abstract by March 31, 2017, and limit your abstract to 250-500 words. 

 

During the submission process, please place a note referring to “Negative Ties and Signed Graphs” sessions.

 

The conference website (http://www.eusn2017.uni-mainz.de/) provides additional information.

We note that there is the opportunity for papers presented in this session to be submitted for review to the upcoming special issue of Social Networks journal on 'Negative and Signed Ties'. The call for papers can be found here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-networks/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-negative-and-signed-tie-networks

We look forward to your submissions.