Dr Bernie Hogan, for his role in developing two of the OII's most 

fomr U of Oxford press release Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ Three members of the OII [Oxford Internet Institute] teaching faculty are to receive awards from the University of Oxford, in recognition of their excellent contributions to the department's teaching over the past year. They will receive the awards at a presentation ceremony hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton, on 10 November 2011. Dr Bernie Hogan, for his role in developing two of the OII's most innovative MSc courses: "Online Social Networks" (developed with Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon) and "Digital Social Research". Online Social Networks is an introduction to the analysis of online social networks, providing students with the tools necessary to undertake research on online networks, and to give an overview of the type of questions that these data can answer. Digital Social Research familiarizes students with a variety of methods for capturing online data in a host of formats, and techniques for answering research questions based on data from the web.