4/2 , 4/4 SOCIAL NETWORKS

introduction to information technology
[4/2 , 4/4 -- Social Networks-- ]


This time, we learn social networks. We live in a global village and society. So we need communicate other people and express my view. like this, In age of new media, we need social networks too. In fact new media technologies usually reinforce existing social networks or even work to isolate people. But when new media technologies facilitate new social networks.

Network is to know each other. We learned social networks as science, technology, popular culture and art. First as science, social network analysis is and interdisciplinary social science it concerned sociologists. buy physicist and mathematicians helping them by diagrams and mass balance data. Social network's history express a family trees. also in 1967, stanley milgram 's study show us that people thought might be able to reach the target whether directly or via a "friend of a friend" that six-degrees fo separation. and another study, Sometimes acquaintances are more valuable than friends (week relationship > strong relationship : sometimes)

If you connect separate networks you have bridging capital or bonding capital. bridging capital is connect each other. and bonding capital is the center of one group.
Social networks as art are friendster Map and global networks and so on. Social networks is dynamic relation. that grains and change. almost every day. many people want visualize social networks. so they express by variable method. map, diagrams graph and so on.

This class I leaned many method and social network's importance. Our society can definite networks.