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  Living in Networks

  The Dynamics of Social Relations

  • Claire Bidart, Alain Degenne, Michel Grossetti(Authors)
  • 2020(Publication Date)
  • Cambridge University Press

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  Introduction Social networks are currently attracting increasing attention from com- mentators of all kinds: from academic journals in various disciplines to employment agencies, via social workers and internet service providers, the notion of the network society is rapidly becoming established. This notion is undoubtedly not unconnected with the increasing affirmation of the individual dimension of social life, in contrast to the influence of insti- tutions and authorities, which appeared to be dominant before the 1970s. Rather than being determined by their origins, their position in the social structure, and their culture, individuals are now regarded as strategists and masters of their own destinies. As such, they have become reacquainted with the risk of fragility and solitude and are expressing their need for social relations by attaching great importance to the network dimension, which is supposed to reconcile society and individual freedom. As actors in their own personal lives, individuals like to think they are also actors in their social lives and are supposed to try to surround themselves with the “right people.” But what is the situation in reality? Over and above this way of thinking and the injunctions to “get networked,” what actual practices are adopted in constructing social ties? What are the dynamics of this construction process? How do interpersonal relations emerge, change, and fade away? What is the structure of “real” networks, those used by ordinary people, who sometimes act reflexively and strategically but are also fre- quently governed by the environments in which they live and the vagaries of their lives? The subject of this book is social relations, the concrete ties that are established between individuals and the networks these ties constitute. It puts into practice a sociology taking into account relational dynamics.

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  Communication, Management and Information Technology

  International Conference on Communciation, Management and Information Technology (ICCMIT 2016, Cosenza, Italy, 26-29 April 2016)

  • Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar(Author)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • CRC Press

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  This means that Social Networking activi-ties have the possibility of enhancing student con-tact and is used to improve their participation in class, particularly where introverted students are involved. Students can function in online group learning, with less or no anxiety of needing to raise questions before peers at school. 2 BACKGROUND AND PRELIMINARIES The social networks one of the most important media, which escalated their star in cyberspace, despite its modernity, demand for them has dou-bled, and became a play roles influential, politi-cally, economically and socially, and their influence extended to the field of education, where he sees is one senior education experts, she added aside from the human form, through the participation and interaction of the human element in the edu-cational process, helping to increase the desire for education, although this does not preclude the presence of some of the drawbacks. Historically featured Social Networking serv-ices, before the demise of the second millennium the sun, as a component Chairman of the tech-niques of the second generation of the Web, tar-geting more communication and informational exchange. In terms of numbers, numbers of them doubled account on these networks, and was the director of marketing at Facebook, [5] it has said that the number of users of the site, bypassing the time being the 900 million people around the world, and that during the past year, the turnout was steady in the Middle East and North Africa region, and in the field of education has emerged the role of social networks dramatically during the past few years, where Subscribe where thousands of schools, colleges and universities around the world, not to mention the involvement of stu-dents for the purpose of education, which have benefited from its services in the framework of the so-called hybrid education, cultural or educational system.

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  Human Computer Interaction Handbook

  Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Third Edition

  • Julie A. Jacko(Author)
  • 2012(Publication Date)
  • CRC Press

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  1359 61 61.1 INTRODUCTION Social media and Social Networking systems have become ubiquitous phenomena in the daily routines and activities of hundreds of millions of citizens around the world. In many ways these platforms and technologies have supplanted long-standing traditional forms of communication, information sharing, and relationship building. Although a variety of these social tools are heartily embraced by users, they have been extant for only a relatively short period of time and have become much like a thief in the night, stealing traditional modes of commerce, love, war, and survival and upend-ing them to form an exciting and significant influence on the development of humankind. Yet in some ways, the new social milieu that has been catalyzed by the creation of vari-ous social media and networks is rudimentary and relatively crude. The basics of functionality and design have been mon-etized in rare cases and the necessary refinement and further development of these tools stand to complement the progress of societies in many revolutionary ways. We describe major social media tools based on their popu-larity and influence as observed from evidence gathered from significant applications that have impacted disciplines, pro-cesses, current events, scholarly paradigms, and social con-tracts. Our presentation is not limited to Social Networking sites and includes a discussion of progress in professional networks and research networking software that have arisen as innovative collateral and are being leveraged to further the advancements of commerce, research, and scholarship. Opportunities to describe the application of design principles and aspects of human factor engineering are also presented to provide the reader with a foundation on which to build hypotheses for future contributions to allow for improve-ments in the use, analysis, and application of social media.

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  The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics

  • Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone, Paul E Kerswill, Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone, Paul E Kerswill(Authors)
  • 2010(Publication Date)
  • SAGE Publications Ltd

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  15 15.1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL NETWORKS PERSPECTIVES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Social network analysis is concerned with under-standing the relationships between social entities such as individual actors, sets of individuals, groups or organizations, and the patterns and implications of these relationships. The network approach pos-tulates that social entities create ties which pro-vide a meaningful framework for problem-solving (Mitchell, 1986: 74). Its fundamental assumption is that the patterning of the social ties in which these social entities are embedded ‘has important consequences’ for them (Freeman, 2004: 2). From this it follows that a wide range of empirical phe-nomena can be explored from social networks perspectives. Although the social network approach received its initial impetus from sociology and anthropol-ogy (e.g. Simmel, 1908; Radcliffe-Brown, 1940; Bott, 1957; Mitchell, 1973) as well as sociometry (Moreno, 1934), its applications and methodo-logical refinements have always transcended dis-ciplinary boundaries. Very different disciplines such as economics, marketing, industrial engi-neering or geography have adopted a network approach and have contributed to its characteristic profiles (in the respective disciplines) or some-times even built up schools of network research. In the 1950s, the Manchester School of anthro-pologists (John A. Barnes, Elizabeth Bott, J. Clyde Mitchell) began to introduce the network as a systematic (and non-metaphorical) concept into the social sciences. These anthropologists contrib-uted to the description of networks by elaborating on network features such as density, clusterability or connexity.

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  Internet Communication

  • James W. Chesebro, David T. McMahan, Preston C. Russett(Authors)
  • 2013(Publication Date)
  • Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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  8 Social Networking Sites The Internet has profoundly altered how people initiate personal relationships, how those relationships are maintained, and how those relationships are terminated. Al- though previous technologies have influenced how people go about relating, none have had such a major influence on not only how relationships are conducted but also how they are perceived, understood, valued, and categorized. Moreover, no previous technology has been so completely integrated into relational processes. Social Networking sites are exclusively examined within this chapter in part because of their prominence in people’s lives and their impact on the Internet as a whole. They are also examined because of their influence on personal relationships and because of their role in the integration of online and offline worlds, knowl- edge, and realities. In their most general form, Social Networking sites enable people to con- struct a profile, assemble a list of connections, and explore the profiles of users. Currently, more than 200 Social Networking sites are in existence, with billions of registered users throughout the world. The most popular Social Networking sites, based on the number of registered users, are listed in Figure 8.1. Although not Social Networking sites as they are now recognized, early forms of online social networks can be traced to various online communities connected through bulletin board systems. Perhaps the earliest online community site was 186 | Internet Communication Well.com, which was launched in 1985. In their current form, Classmates.com and SixDegrees.com, launched in 1995 and 1997, respectively, were the first so- cial networking sites. Facebook Facebook.com Twitter Twitter.com Google+ Plus.google.com Qzone Qzone.qq.com SinaWeibo Weibo.com Formspring Formsrping.me Habbo Habbo.com Linkedin Linkedin.com Renren Renren.com Vkontakte Vk.com Figure 8.1.

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  Developing Digital Scholarship

  Emerging practices in academic libraries

  • Alison Mackenzie, Lindsey Martin, Alison Mackenzie, Lindsey Martin(Authors)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • Facet Publishing

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  e terms Social Networking sites and social network sites are oen used interchangeably, although ‘networking’ implies that people are looking to meet new people while ‘network’ suggests communication with people within their existing network (Boyd and Ellison, 2007). In this chapter, we refer to Social Networking, indicating communication with ‘Friends’ (i.e. existing academic library SNS connections) but also reaching out to create new connections. Evolution of Social Networking site use in academic libraries Facebook was first launched in 2004, exclusively for Harvard University students (Vassilakaki and Garoufallou, 2014). By 2007 the site was open to everybody over the age of 13 and 58 million people worldwide were using Facebook each month (Sedghi, 2015). At that time, a survey of 126 academic librarians throughout the USA found that only two respondents’ libraries had a Facebook profile and the majority of librarians felt fairly apathetic about the site; neither enthusiastic nor disdainful (Charnigo and Barnett-Ellis, 2007). Since then, social media has continued to evolve rapidly, with ‘new ideas, tools and developments coming online constantly’ (Johnson et al., 2015, 35). SNS attract increasingly large audiences, with Facebook reaching 1.55 billion active monthly users by September 2015 (Facebook, 2015). As social media has evolved, so too has the 142 PART 4 | cOMMUNIcATIONS ANd Social Networking use of SNS in academic libraries and the outlook of librarians. Chu and Du’s (2013) research explored SNS tools being used by academic libraries in Asian, North American and European universities. A total of 140 libraries were approached, but a small sample of 38 responded to the questionnaire, thereby limiting possibilities for generalization. Nevertheless it is interesting to note that librarians had a positive attitude towards the use of SNS; 71.1% of the libraries were using SNS, with Facebook (62.9%) and Twitter (62.9%) being used most frequently.

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