The results of the study revealed that RBI was associated with more significantly diverse friend choices when compared to control classrooms. 

The results of this study revealed how networks changed and evolved over time.  The study also revealed that the application of SNA to team cohesion allows researchers to examine a team network at the individual level to determine the role that they play on the team.

In this case, the use of SNA provided an empirical way to derive groups of students, while also providing the footing to assess a dynamic multilevel model that could pick out the particular attributes between individuals and group level variance in terms of hope and well-being.

That said, they found network density to decline over time, meaning adolescents dont just nominate anyone as their friend, and a positive reciprocity parameter, whereby they tend to reciprocate friendship nominations (dyad nominations). Therefore, they tended to nominate each other in friend dyads, keep the network closed, and form peer group structures in friendship networks. In terms of other attributes, they found that those with high levels of effortful behavior and GPAs were more often nominated.

They found that overweight girls were less likely to be nominated as a friend, even though overweight students nominated more friends.

She found that although there is greater diversity in dispersed communities, these communities are not as close as clustered communities, which she posits may influence their willingness to reach out for job connections as women in dispersed communities were less likely to reach out to neighbors than those in clustered communities. 

Authors found that a randomized public middle school intervention can disrupt the formation of deviation peer groups and diminish levels of adolescent deviance five years later.

Network density was higher for more superficial relationships, such as knowing a person by name

They found that there was a significantly greater occurrence of gamblers in the networks of pathological gambler participants compared to those of a non-pathological gambler’s network.

The study found significant differences in drinking frequencies between the overall alcohol use networks among the participants

defending was likely to occur when the victim and defender had the same friends.

he results indicated that victimized students were likely to be defended by students who they perceive as friends or who perceive them as friends.

Study results did not support the researchers first hypothesis. According to the data, density was not linked to perceived cohesion. However size had a small negative effect on perceived cohesion, which Tulin et. al believe suggests that people may perceive smaller groups as being more cohesive.

Researchers Tulin et. al conducted a study with aims to investigate whether structural properties (group size and density) can predict perceived cohesion in small social groups.

They took the traditional method of creating an SNA graph using k-cores as categorical colors and placed them on the map.

The research question asked if an association existed between poultry trade network characteristics in southern China and HPAIV infection status by the occurrence of poultry outbreaks.

The k-core did indeed enhance the disease effects, as the entire k-core was ‘‘lost’’ in the left hemisphere of AD subjects.

K-core as the structural backbone of the network.

By and large, Sijtsema and colleagues  found that the density of the network decreased over time, suggesting that students made fewer nominations of friends as they progressed through middle school.  Figure 2 demonstrates how this phenomenon occurred across 7 of the 8 different networks.  From this finding, they concluded that “adolescents were less inclined to just nominate classmates as friends. Instead they favored friendships that were mutual….” This contributed to the decrease in density of the network, but didnt necessarily suggest that adolescents had lost friendships between time point 1 and time point 3.

1. The development of friendship networks in adolescence 2. How friendship selection may be predicted by aggression?

Ultimately, this form of analysis, namely k-core, can provide researchers with a metric to determine groups of centrally connected relations in social networks. This further aids researchers in seeing who is important, integral to the network, and important to collectively speak about and examine.

used k-core to help explain the spatial structure of creativity research over a ten year period between 1992 and 2011.

weighed K-core decomposition method was the most accurate in identifying the most influential spreaders in the network

link-weighing method based on interactions among individuals.

these organizations to conclude that this funding was successful in its goal to provide better services for transition-aged youth.

The goal of this study was to determine whether there was an association between the efforts to increase coordination across systems that serve transition age youth and actual connections between child and adult systems in Clark County, Washington.

Networks and social platforms are ground zero

depends on how power gained from network systems is distributed and used.

it also takes away from in person relationships.

This is a good image that shows how public opinion can be influenced by media.

I believe that any movement towards giving people voice has the potential to produce good.

I agree with Castells that these changes will improve the lives of various people.

online communication and social media allow us to transcend space and time because we can instantaneously connect with anyone at virtually any time across the globe. T

the public sphere is an integral component to a democratic society, whereby citizens can discuss, agree, or disagree with each other to illustrate their collective being, opinions, and ideals without influence from those that have been given the authority to govern.

people have opportunities to educate themselves less formally and with the access of the internet, questions can be answered within seconds on a mobile device.

With information being shared more widely and quickly through electronic devices, more people than ever before are able to participate in the public sphere.

They are good in the sense that more people are able to obtain and disseminate information to a larger number of individuals.

Unfortunately, the public sphere is being threatened by the media. Through a shift in reporting, the media now has an influence over the discourse. Instead of the goal of the media being the dissemination of information, it is now focused on how much commerce it can generate through it’s reporting. 

highly political and biased channels.

neutral

For this reason, I plan to investigate the relationship between how connected a student is in the classroom social network, and their individual reports of engagement.

I’d hypothesize that those with more robust networks to also receive more self-supporting sources of self-efficacy.

On that one post, he has 174 likes and 56 comments.

my small project is to better understand community-serving organization collaboration in the Richmond area.

factors that compell an adolescent to participate in deviant behavior.

identify ways in which differing leadership styles effect group dynamics and performance within an organization using SNA.

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

More specifically, three time periods will be studied. 

My research project will attempt to answer the question of how the American Hospital Association Political Action Committee (AHA PAC) has responded, in terms of political financial contributions, to the introduction and implementation of the Hospital Value-Base Purchasing (HVBP) Program by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 

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