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The pervasive diffusion of digital media enriches all courses of human action expanding the relational milieu in which they take place. From an analytical point of view, examining online networks constitutes a primary research task, especially in the domain of cybercrime studies. Thus, the traditional toolkit of social network analysis, already widely adopted across a range of social sciences, acquires new prominence and, at the same time, expands to cope with larger volume, variety, and velocity of online data. This chapter introduces some basic elements of social and semantic network analysis presenting some key features to characterize overall online structures; discussing community-finding procedures to explore networks at the meso level; and presenting different modes to measure single nodes prominence.

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Pavan, E. (2021). Social and Semantic Online Networks. In: Lavorgna, A., Holt, T.J. (eds) Researching Cybercrimes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74837-1_13

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