Review
Lucid and comprehensive, Jackson's book elegantly synthesizes several important strands of network science from sociology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and economics. It will be an immensely useful reference for researchers and students alike.
(Duncan Watts, Columbia University )
Product Description
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the latest findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics. He provides empirical background on networks and the regularities that they exhibit, and discusses random graph-based models and strategic models of network formation. He helps readers to understand behavior in networked societies, with a detailed analysis of learning and diffusion in networks, decision making by individuals who are influenced by their social neighbors, game theory and markets on networks, and a host of related subjects. Jackson also describes the varied statistical and modeling techniques used to analyze social networks. Each chapter includes exercises to aid students in their analysis of how networks function.
This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in economics, mathematics, physics, sociology, and business.

Are all film stars linked to Kevin Bacon? Why do the stock markets rise and fall sharply on the strength of a vague rumour? How does gossip spread so quickly? Are we all related through six degrees of separation? There is a growing awareness of the complex networks that pervade modern society. We see them in the rapid growth of the Internet, the ease of global communication, the swift spread of news and information, and in the way epidemics and financial crises develop with startling speed and intensity. This introductory book on the new science of networks takes an interdisciplinary approach, using economics, sociology, computing, information science and applied mathematics to address fundamental questions about the links that connect us, and the ways that our decisions can have consequences for others.

计算传播学是计算社会科学的重要分支，计算传播学的分析基础在于人类传播行为的可计算性，而人类传播行为本身的丰富性和复杂性为计算传播学研究提出了重要挑战。《社交网络上的计算传播学》着重分析了社交网络中影响传播行为的各种可计算因素，以网络科学为理论基础，以计算新闻学、计算广告学等为实践知识框架，《社交网络上的计算传播学》共11章。第1～5章分析了社交网络中信息传播的测量工具和影响传播的可计算因素；第6～8章主要侧重于介绍社交网络中计算传播学的相关应用；第9～11章介绍与社交网络上计算传播学相关的一些研究方法和数据处理手段。
《社交网络上的计算传播学》着力于融合多个学科的力量，系统性地为社交网络上的信息传播建立一个完整的可计算框架。《社交网络上的计算传播学》可作为研究生以及高年级本科生的社交网络分析和计算传播学教材，也可供自然科学、工程技术和社会科学领域的研究人员和学者参考使用。