[agents] Session on "Negative Ties and Signed Graphs" at Sunbelt 2019 in Montréal, Canada (June 18-23) – abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2019

[Samin Aref]

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*Special Conference-Within-a-Conference on Negative Ties and Signed Graphs
at Sunbelt 2019 Montréal, Canada (June 18-23)*


*Note: This session is open to anyone interested in presenting research on
negative and signed ties. There is no requirement to have submitted or been
accepted for the Special Issue. *



The journal Social Networks will be publishing a special issue on negative
ties and signed graphs that focuses on the co-existence of positive and
negative ties in networks and the need to study them together in order to
better understand network content and dynamics. To celebrate the special
issue and to point the way forward to new research in this burgeoning area,
we invite anyone with an interest in the topic to submit their work to a
special mini-conference within the Sunbelt social network conference.



In addition, we are asking authors of manuscripts that are either already
accepted for publication in the special issue or that went through the
revision process to present their work at the conference. We hope to have a
nice mix of presentations for work that has already undergone a significant
journal review process and more early-stage projects.



The conference will take place over a day to a day-and-a-half (to be
determined based on the number of submissions) during the normal course of
the Sunbelt conference in Montreal, Quebec in June, 2019.



In addition to presentations, the conference will feature panels and
discussions about the future of signed graph research, as well as helpful
tips on improving this work moving forward.



Please submit your abstracts for this conference through the session
labelled:


*“Negative Ties and Signed Graphs” *
at the 2019 Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social
Network Analysis (INSNA), June 18-23, 2019,  Montréal, Canada.


Session organizers:

·         Filip Agneessens, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey

·         Samin Aref, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

·         Nicholas Harrigan, School of Social Sciences, Singapore
Management University

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

·         Zachary Neal, Michigan State University


We encourage a wide range of submissions.  Example works include (but are
not limited to): Methods and measures pertaining to negative ties and
signed graphs; understanding the inner workings of political and legal
bodies such as legislatures or courts; 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; examining how relational ambivalence affects relational
trajectories; and how subgroup fault lines affect intra- and inter-group
conflict.



Please submit your abstract before 1 February 2019 . Please limit your
abstract to 250-500 words. If there is a full manuscript associated with
the abstract, please make note of this at the end of your abstract.

The conference website (https://www.fourwav.es/view/717/info/) provides
additional information.



The submissions website is located here:
https://www.fourwav.es/view/717/submission/


We look forward to your submissions.



*Samin Aref*

Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Konrad-Zuse-Str. 1, 18057 Rostock

mailto:aref at demogr.mpg.de <aref at demogr.mpg.de>

http://www.demogr.mpg.de
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