The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) is a professional academic association of researchers and practitioners of social network analysis. Members have interests in social networks as a new theoretical paradigm, in methodological developments, and in a variety of applications of different types of social networks approaches, social network software, and social networking.
Membership, history and output
INSNA's membership consists of more than 1,000 social network analysis researchers, who have a website (see External links) and an active email discussion group, SOCNET with over 2,750 subscribers.
INSNA is international and interdisciplinary. Most members are social scientists, but there is significant involvement by mathematicians, statisticians, the business world (especially management consultants), and social networking software creators and analysts.
It was founded in 1977 by Barry Wellman, a sociologist to connect scattered network analysts, dispersed across countries and fields. It was headed by communications scientist William Richards from 2005 until his sudden death in August 2007. He was succeeded by Vice-president George Barnett, a Communication Science professor at the University of California, Davis, and then John Skvoretz (University of South Florida). As of 2016, the president is Steve Borgatti of the University of Kentucky and the vice president is Laura Koehly of the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program.
As well as publishing a triannual journal Connections on the subject, INSNA also:
Runs SOCNET, a listserv mailing-list for the subject.Hosts the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference annually. See list below.Facilitates regional and specialized conferences.Publishes a quarterly journal, Social Networks.Publishes the online Journal of Social Structure, irregular periodicity.Provides links to researchers around the world.Provides raw data.Starting in the 1990s, the Keynote Speakers were also recognized with the Georg Simmel Distinguished Career Award.1981 Tampa, none1982 Tampa, John Barnes1983 San Diego, James S. Coleman1984 Phoenix, Harrison White1985 Palm Beach, Linton Freeman1986 Santa Barbara, J. Clyde Mitchell1987 Clearwater, Everett Rogers1988 San Diego, Charles Kadushin1989 Tampa, Frank Harary1990 San Diego, Mark Granovetter1991 Tampa, James Davis1992 San Diego, Peter Blau1993 Tampa, A. Kimball Romney1994 New Orleans, Barry Wellman1995 London, Patrick Doreian1996 Charleston, Bonnie Erickson1997 San Diego, H. Russell Bernard & Peter Killworth1998 Sitges, Spain, Rolf Ziegler1999 Charleston, Nan Lin2000 Vancouver, Linton Freeman2001 Budapest, Martin Everett2002 New Orleans, Philippa Pattison2003 Cancun, MX, Alvin Wolfe2004 Portorož, Slovenia, Frans Stokman2005 Redondo Beach, CA, Ronald Breiger2006 Vancouver, Edward Laumann2007 Corfu, Vladimir Batagelj & Anuška Ferligoj2008 St Petersburg, FL, Stephen Borgatti2009 San Diego, CA, Phillip Bonacich2010 Riva del Garda, Italy, Tom A.B. Snijders2011 St Petersburg, FL, Kathleen Carley2012 Redondo Beach, CA, David Krackhardt2013 Hamburg, Germany, John Padgett2014 St Petersburg, FL, Jeff Johnson2015 Brighton, England Thomas Valente2016 Newport Beach, CA Garry Robins