Recent research on the structure and analysis of social and information networks, such as WWW, blogging platforms, instant messaging, Face book, and Twitter. Theoretical models and algorithms that explain the basic properties of these social networks. Discusses and analyzes large scale network data and how to reason about it through models for network structure and evolution. Topics include methods for link analysis, Social Network Analysis and network community detection, diffusion and information propagation on the web, virus outbreak detection in networks, and connections with work in the social sciences and economics.