Doha: The Master of Social Work program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies organised today, Thursday, December 2, 2021, in cooperation with the Excellence Center for Training and Consulting, a training workshop on “Social Networks Analysis using NodeXL program”, which was delivered by Dr Asmaa Malkawi, Research Assistant Professor at the Ibn Khaldun Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Qatar University. This workshop focused on the tremendous technological development and strongly entering the era of digitization, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic.
The lecture, which was held at the Institute's headquarters, aimed to introduce researchers, students and professors interested in different disciplines to Social Networks Analysis as a mixed, multidisciplinary scientific methodology that deals with big data produced by social networking sites.
In her lecture, Dr Asmaa Malkawi focused on one of the most famous social network analysis programs, NodeXL, because it provides researchers with the possibilities through which data and information are collected, filtered and analyzed according to many standards and the production of visualized maps of the networks in question, especially since this program deals with Arabic data with high efficiency.
Malkawi pointed out that the analysis of social networks is of wide use in scientific research to study all issues circulating around the world, including what happens on social networking sites, like the issues that are discussed on Twitter, which results in a huge amount of data, depending on the type of issues; political, religious and social. Dr Malkawi also discussed the great development in scientific research methodologies, including social networks analysis methods.
The participants in the workshop expressed their desire to integrate this methodology within the scientific research methodologies they study and use it to prepare their research projects and theses, as well as in providing basic and advanced courses in social networking data analysis systems.
