SNA All-Star: Carter Butts
Carter Butts is a social network analysis all-star who is
currently a Professor of Sociology at the University of California – Irvine
(UCI). His research
“involves the application of formal (i.e. mathematical and computational)
techniques to theoretical and methodological problems within the areas of
social network analysis,” in addition to a number of other fields. In addition he “is interested in social
phenomena related to emergency situations, and [he is] involved in research which
seeks to combine social science and informational technology to
improve…responses to disasters and other adverse events.” HEROIC, or Hazards, Emergency Response and
Online Informal Communication, is a
projects he is involved in. HEROIC seeks “to better understand the
dynamics of informal online communication in response to extreme events.” His book, Space and Structure: Methods and
Models for Large-Scale Interpersonal Networks, is expected sometime in
2014.
He earned his B.S. in Systems Theory from Duke University in
1996, followed by a M.S. (1998) and P.H.D. (2002), both in Sociology, from
Carnegie Mellon University.
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