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The network that I am going to use is of my classes. Being a JUS student I take mostly JUS classes. Through this I have learned that the topics of each class tend to relate, overlap, and border each other. The classes would be the larger, central nodes with smaller nodes of different topics studied under that class. The class topics that touch on the same subjects would have a tie. Such as learning about government laws in International Justice as well as Due process and Family Law.

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My social network is friendship. My friend jokes about how she only needs five friends in her "circle". Recently, she met two new people that she wants to add to the group, either one or both. This ties into this class because of our friendship groups and our relations- how we know each other, and the addition of two new people adding into our relations as ties. For example, I have my friend, Heather whom I met at school. Krit is family, and Mauren is my friend from the gym. The next ties shows people I've met through them, and so on. For example, while training for a Tough Mudder, I met Adam and Kate through Mauren. - Betelgeuse

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For some odd reason, I thought of a network that involved those providing service to my place of residence.  The relation is the address; the tie is me, and I should include my landlord, since I rent the second floor of a large house.  I live above an elderly woman...should she be included?  Hmmm.  I will include the professional services provided by the mail person, refuse worker, oil delivery driver, UPS driver, meter reader,  plow truck driver, and cable/internet tech.  I will connect the plow truck driver and the oil delivery driver to both of us as I don't pay them directly, yet I benefit from their services.  I believe the other services are entirely for me, and some, at my cost, at the moment.  I will attempt some shapes and arrows.  Love, Scorpius.
P.S. What is the reason for constellation names?  Did I miss that?  Are constellations networks?

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Okay. After looking at these posts I realize that most of my classmates are way ahead of me as to knowing how to create graphs. :(
So for this post I will write about a social network which I believe affects education. In the past years I have observed the following: the social network in education that we have now is not working. First, the state decides what is to be taught in schools by dictating standards to a Superintendent, the Superintendent then dictates to the school Principals what needs to happen in their school to incorporate those standards. The Principals then direct their teachers to teach to meet those standards in their classrooms. The teachers then teach the students. Finally the students learn only what the teachers are told to teach them. As you can see the only direction in this example is one -way, so all arrows would point in one direction beginning with the State Education Board.  (The education social network  would be much more effective is all levels would actually communicate with each other in a constant and practical way creating many pathways for the education information to flow.) The nodes in my example are the basic positions in public education at the K-12 level. The ties are the actual information passed between the nodes, which sadly in this example, only flows in one direction. P.S. My goal right now is to learn how to use something on this computer to visually show graphs. Any suggestions? Should I already know how?

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One of the most common social networks is a friendship, which is why I chose to illustrate how friends can explain nodes, ties and the relationship in between. The nodes in this network are my friends and I. The ties within this group are the relationships that each individual has with certain friends out of the group. Of course, the relationship shown in the diagram below is a friendship. The center of the network (myself) can be friends with everyone displayed in the diagram, while one of my friends can choose to not acquaint themselves with one another.
Below you can notice that not every box has an arrow pointing toward it, indicating that there is no tie present.

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My social network I chose was my Ultimate Frisbee team. Me and my teammates are the nodes. Our ties are we are a close group of friends outside of Frisbee. I am the captain of the team, but I allow lots of input from my teammates because they will tell me things they think we need to improve on.

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I chose my basketball team for my social network example. In my diagram you can see that the nodes are all the members of the coaching staff and the team and the ties are the arrows which represent the group text messages. In the offseason we mostly communicate through group chats. You can see that the athletic director and the two coaches have two-way communication, and the coaches and the captains have two-way communication too. The captains and the other players have one-way communication in the group chats and the captains are the ones communicating. Normally the athletic director will pass on messages to the coaches and the coaches to the captains. From there the captains give the information to the team. The different relationships and status of the people in the program define whether the ties are one-way or two-ways. This is just for communication within the ties of text messaging not the multiple other forms of communication that take place. (The diagram may look better if you open it up)

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My social network example is my nursing clinical group that I am involved with at Cary Medical Center in Caribou, Maine. The nodes are the Yellow Circle -> (our clinical instructor Lara), Myself, Demi and Megan-> (nursing students), and our own individual patient that is given to us at the beginning of our day. Our ties are the communication and nursing care we give to our patients, when we report back to Lara, and how we chart our care and Lara reviews all our work put into the computer. The diagram below shows that Lara is the individual that us nursing students all report to throughout the clinical day.

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My social network example is my work at our local farmer's markets. Myself and my customers are the nodes. Our ties are me setting up my tent weekly, with all my products and them travelling to see me and buy products. How I get more customers is by them telling their friends or bringing their friends to see me! Also, we offer our products on our website so they can also order online. The entire small business I work for has a series of social networking platforms to choose from! Its really neat to see it from this point of view.

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A social network that I am currently involved in is with my daughters participating in playing soccer. Then coach and the parents are the nodes in this social network. Cell phones and e-mail are the ways that we communicate, which would be the ties. The coach interacts with all the parents and communicates the schedule for all the practices and games. The parents communicate with the coach but, also with other parents individually to set up car pooling.
As you can see from the chart below the coach is in direct contact (one way) with all of the parents, and the parents are in direct contact with one another, some being one way while others are back and forth.

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One example of a social network I have experienced is my family. In my family specifically, we contain my mother, father, brother, and sister-in-law, along with myself. We are the nodes within this social network. The ways in which we communicate between our network would be considered the ties between us. In this case, the ties would come to play through the use of cell phones. Though we all at some point interact individually, the main method of communication is from my mother. She is in touch with all of us, and communicate our news to the other members of the family.
From the chart below, you can see that Mom communicates to and from all members of the family. The ties between the rest of the family members are one-way, being that one may communicate regularly via cell phone to some, but it may not be reciprocated back to them.

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My example of a social network is of my job at a bank. There are many employees who work within the bank, and there are a number of higher ups in the chain leading to the CEO. It would be very difficult to show the connections between all of the banks employees so I stuck with who works within my branch. There are nodes in my graph which represent the branch manager, assistant manager, CSR, branch ops, teller1 and teller 2. There are ties between who reports to who. Starting at the top is the branch manager who everyone reports to. Under her is the assistant manager who everyone except the branch manager reports to. Then is the branch ops person and the CSR who have about equal authority and who the tellers can go to. And the tellers who can report to or have ties with everyone but each other.

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The type of communication that I am going to study is my job as a CNA. In the work force of a health profession; if a resident is given the wrong medication, it could be due to the lack of communication with your coworkers. The typical health care facility includes many supervisors and another staff who are not as “important.”  Healthcare professionals are ranked highest to lowest based on education and qualifications: The levels of healthcare professions within my network are: Ryan (Director Of Nurse), Leanne (Charge Nurse), Craig (Med Tech), Lauren (Physical Therapy Department), Rebecca (CNA1), Laura (CNA2), Brittney (CNA3).

The ties within the health care field is that making an error can determine life or death. Also, because there are so many staff for one facility, there are people that you are not going to get along with.

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I've chosen to create my social networked based off of my place of employment.  My nodes are Lindsay, Mackenzie, Diane, and Crystal which are the cashiers.  They report to Brittney which is the person that runs the service desk.  She reports to Samantha which is the Front End Lead and she reports to Betty, the store manager.  However if you notice all of the lines cross each other on their way up to Betty because all of the cashiers must report to all of the three managers.
The relation that the cashiers, Samantha, and Brittney all have in common are that they all must report to Betty. Betty is responsible for making sure all the ties are still there, and that the right people are communicating. She holds all the ties together because without her, the ties would not be complete.
I will admit that this assignment confused me, but once I made my social network and was visually able to identify where the ties were, it became a bit easier to understand.

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Antares Presents... The Social Beach Network:

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Antares Presents... The Social Beach Network:

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This Social Beach Network (SBN) consists of signs that act as the communicators or ties to the competing volleyball teams and beach goers who define the relation of these ties.

The SBN may change messages on the signs (nodes) depending on beach activity for a given day and helps avoid confusion through visual communication.
Ref: www.Dreamstime.com
(Please click on picture for full view)

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I picked the social network of co-workers at the K-8 school I work at. The kind of node in the network is a person. The relation in the network is that we work together. Some may have the relation of friendship, but I am just going to focus on the one relationship of co-workers. I only chose to depict the relationships up to 5th  Grade and only classroom teachers. If I were to add all personnel, I would have to switch to a matrix.
In my graph, the nodes are Linda, Lisa, Julie, Leah, Maria, Tiffany, Jen, Marissa, Susan, Tammy, Chris, Steven, and Thomas. I have ties between all the teachers K-3 with arrows. This is because this is a grade level team that works together, along with the principal for PLCs and curriculum. It’s not that they “don’t work” with the 3-5 teachers, but they don’t “work” directly alongside these teachers. The same goes for the nodes of Marissa, Susan, Tammy, Chris, Steven, and Thomas. They work as a grade leveled team, and meet regularly as well as switch students between subject matter and skills for RTI purposes. Linda, the principal, is in blue as she is the key node in this whole system of networking. She is responsible for overseeing the relationships and “ties” between each teacher and ensures that the ties remain positive. However, like any workplace, some of the ties between nodes are negative. There are moments of frustration with one another, etc. that make the communication and workload seem impossible. That’s when one of the nodes would respond back to Linda, the primary node, for assistance.