Hi Luca - You may want to talk to Valdis Krebs at: http://www.orgnet.com/ about SNA of large social networks. In fact she has software to do this kind of thing. Kind regards Andrew _________________________________________________________________ http://andrew-long.name | Department of Information Science | School of Business University of Otago | NZ | +64 3 479 8319 | mailto:along@infoscience.otago.ac.nz : -----Original Message----- : From: Luca Rossi [mailto:luca.rossi@uniurb.it] : Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 10:48 p.m. : To: air-l; denrall : Subject: [Air-L] Automated analysis of large social network : : Dear all, : : I'm working on a research project aimed to develop a software tool : able to map and analyze how social relations are reshaped on Facebook. : I was wondering if you were aware of any paper or book about large : social network analysis (preferably automated). I'm not thinking about : small scale SN analysis but about large (or very large) SN. At the : same time are you aware of any research based on the analysis of large : quantities of User generated contents? (blog entries or youtube videos : etc.). : : thank you all : : Luca : : -- : Luca Rossi : LaRiCA - Advanced Communication Laboratory : Faculty of Sociology - "Carlo Bo" University, Urbino : luca.rossi@soc.uniurb.it : T. +39 0722 305726 F. +39 0722 305727 : http://larica-virtual.soc.uniurb.it/redline