{"id":555,"date":"2015-03-08T21:37:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T01:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=555"},"modified":"2015-03-08T21:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T01:38:59","slug":"meaning-behind-a-digital-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/03\/08\/meaning-behind-a-digital-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning Behind a Digital Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through technology, we choose who we associate ourselves with. The association with someone would create an edge between nodes. The edge forms a network that connects two nodes together where the nodes of family, friends, and associates are now connected to both nodes. For example, Facebook is a digital network where two people can become friends on Facebook. Now, the friends of these two individuals are connected through a path that\u00a0are formed by two individuals, unless the friends already have mutual friends. Ulises Ali Mejias states in Off the Network how \u201cto \u2018Friend\u2019 in a social network that establishes a correspondence between two records of data (47). Every day, Facebook users are being connected together as one can find Facebook to consist of a giant component that encompasses every Facebook user being connected through edges. Even if one creates a new Facebook account, then they will soon friend someone else that will tie them into the giant component. Yet, the downfalls behind the giant component of Facebook include disruptive forces like a person impersonating a real-world friend that could disrupt the connection between you and your friends.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, through Facebook, we witness various Facebook users discover their friends to have hidden mutual friends that may have not been discovered through technology. David Easley and Jon Kleinberg states this idea, small-world phenomenon, where the world looks \u201csmall\u201d when you think of how short a path of friends it takes to get from you to almost anyone else (35). The downside from this phenomenon is it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re socially close to them.<\/p>\n

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David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, \u201cGraphs\u201d from Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World<\/em> (2010)<\/p>\n

Ulises Ali Mejias, \u201cComputers as Socializing\u00a0Tools” from Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World<\/em> (2013)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through technology, we choose who we associate ourselves with. The association with someone would create an edge between nodes. The edge forms a network that connects two nodes together where the nodes of family, friends, and associates are now connected to both nodes. For example, Facebook is a digital network where two people can become … Continue reading Meaning Behind a Digital Network<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-1","category-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}