Animating the development of Social Networks over time using a dynamic extension of multidimensional scaling

The animation of network visualizations poses technical and theoretical challenges. Rather stable patterns are required before the mental map enables a user to make inferences over time. In order to enhance stability, we developed an extension of stress-minimization with developments over time. This dynamic layouter is no longer based on linear interpolation between independent static visualizations, but change over time is used as a parameter in the optimization. Because of our focus on structural change versus stability the attention is shifted from the relational graph to the latent eigenvectors of matrices. The approach is illustrated with animations for the journal citation environments of Social Networks, the (co-)author networks in the carrying community of this journal, and the topical development using relations among its title words. Our results are also compared with animations based on PajekToSVGAnim and SoNIA

The Sa'dan-Toraja

The present volume consists of two parts, Part I dealing with the natural surroundings and the social and territorial organization of the Sa'dan-Toraja, Part 11 with religious notions, natural and material symbols, and priestly organization. Volume 11, which will hopefully appear in due time, will contain a description of Sa'dan-Toraja rituals, those associated with the East in Part 111, and those with the West in Part IV

Una perspectiva institucional sobre la relación micro-macro

The micro-macro link may be regarded as a dynamic process in which actors interpret local patterns of relations as indicators or elements of an overarching structure, communicate their interpretations, and adjust their relations to the overall structure as they perceive it. In this paper, it is proposed that actors perceive local substructures in a network of evaluations, such as dyads, triads, or short semicycles, and infer clustering and ranking in ways that are compatible with balance-theoretic models. They interpret and communicate the information as simplified and idealized classifications resembling blockmodels, to which they adjust their relations afterwards. In this way, the ego-centered and socio-centered perspectives are dynamically related. This approach is applied to evaluations among authors and critics in the literary institution. At the micro level, literary authors and critics adjust their evaluations to previous evaluations. At the global level, the institution of literature is stratified into clusters, e.g., literary movements and styles. The members of this institution reflect on its structure: classifications according to movement and style are communicated and discussed in literary criticism.La relación micro-macro puede ser comprendida como un proceso dinámico en el que los actores interpretan los modelos locales de relación en tanto que indicadores o elementos de una estructura de conjunto, comunican sus interpretaciones y ajustan sus relaciones hacia la estructura tal como la perciben globalmente. En este artículo, se propone que los actores perciben las subestructuras locales en una red de evaluaciones, como las díadas, tríadas o semiciclos cortos e infieren agrupamientos y jerarquías de forma que son compatibles con los modelos de la teoría del equilibrio. Es decir, interpretan y comunican la información como clasificaciones simplificadas e idealizadas parecidas a bloques (blockmodels2) respecto a los que ajustan sus relaciones a continuación. De este modo, las perspectivas ego-centradas y sociocentradas se relacionan de manera dinámica. Esta perspectiva es aplicada a evaluaciones entre autores y críticos en las instituciones literarias. En el nivel micro, los autores literarios y los críticos ajustan sus evaluaciones a las evaluaciones precedentes. En el nivel global, la institución literaria es estratificada en conglomerados, por ejemplo movimientos literarios y estilos. Los miembros de esta institución se reflejan en su estructura: clasificaciones de acuerdo con el movimiento y el estilo son comunicadas y discutidas en la crítica literaria

The transcultural self: mapping a French identity in contemporary Australian women’s travel memoirs

Rare during the twentieth century, at least twenty-nine book-length memoirs of Australians in France have been published since 2000. Unlike their British and American counterparts, these are overwhelmingly written by women, staying as often as not in Paris as in rural France. The relocation inevitably provides the opportunity for reinvention of the self in relation to new surroundings. Striking is the desire among many of these writers to claim a French identity, as evidenced in titles such as: Almost French, How to Be French, My French Life. The paper seeks to understand what enables Frenchness to appear as readily accessible to this group of Australian women and what this version of Frenchness entails. It investigates what constitutes cultural belonging in these memoirs, and the ‘technologies of the self’ by means of which this new identity is crafted, assumed and circulated as a template for others to follow. Curiously, neither a high level of French language proficiency nor long-term residence are considered essential attributes. More often, the authors focus on the availability of alternative forms of female subjectivity, and the invention of a transcultural self is articulated in terms of cultural paradigms of femininity and gender relations

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The Sa'dan-Toraja

The present volume consists of two parts, Part I dealing with the natural surroundings and the social and territorial organization of the Sa'dan-Toraja, Part 11 with religious notions, natural and material symbols, and priestly organization. Volume 11, which will hopefully appear in due time, will contain a description of Sa'dan-Toraja rituals, those associated with the East in Part 111, and those with the West in Part IV