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What is Social Networks

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A social structure such individuals or organizations and the relationship between them.
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Clustering Methods for Detecting Communities in Networks
Ademir Cristiano Gabardo (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - UTFPR, Brazil) and Heitor S. Lopes (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - UTFPR, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch344
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Critical Success Factors in the Development of Folksonomy-Based Knowledge Management Tools
The term refers to individuals and their interconnections with others, which could include business relationships, kinship or trust.
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Next-Generation IT for Knowledge Distribution in Enterprises
The set of human relations in an organization, which exist independently of whether or not they are analyzed; as a discipline, social networks is the study of those interrelations.
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Music Management in the Digital Age
Online services, platforms, or sites that focus on facilitating the building of social relations among people.
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Innovative Learning Approach in the 21st Century: Personal Learning Environments
Social networks are web technologies that enable individuals to interact with others over the internet.
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Towards Connected Governance: Citizens' Use of Web 2.0 in Nigeria
These are web-based applications that focus on creating communities of individuals with shared interests, providing numerous methods of interaction between network participants. Popular social networks include Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, WhatsApp, and MySpace.
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Fasti Congressuum: A Useful Online Tool for Congresses and Call for Papers
It is called to every single tool which was located on the Internet network and has the finality to interact people. The main propose of this world is to connect people immediately and make easier to share information. Every person must have a personal profile with personal information that must be real. From your account it is provided a way to share information such as pictures, videos and documents. Facebook (2004) AU66: The in-text citation "Facebook (2004)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. is the most popular social networks but it is not the only one.
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The Impact of Digital Resources on Scholarship in the Digital Humanities
The structures formed by individuals’ patterns of social interaction.
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To Examine Women Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Opportunities and Challenges
A social structure made up of individuals and organizations with similar interests who come together to share information or hold discussions of common interests.
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Pedagogical Mashup: Gen Y, Social Media, and Learning in the Digital Age
A term used to describe virtual or online communities of shared practice.
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Digital Marketing and Service Industry: Digital Marketing in the Banking Industry
Networks on the Internet that have developed due to the similarity in the needs of certain segments of users.
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How to Communicate SDG 12 in Social Media: The Case of Distribution Channels
Structures formed on the Internet in which groups of people with similar interests share content, experiences, and opinions.
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Teleworking and the
structured social relations that carry informational and affective content.
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The Use of Online Social Networks and Its Influence on Job-Related Behavior: The Higher Education Context
They function as communication channels and allow the exchange of resources to several levels, as a form of spreading and sharing ideas. The social relationships established at work are an important tool for the understanding of the workers’ outcomes in the organizations.
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Trust, Social Networks and Electronic Commerce Adoption
People who are directly or indirectly linked together in a social group.
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Interactive Customer Retention Management for Mobile Commerce
Social Networks are advancements of virtual communities where the relationship between users is shown as virtual interaction network. Users of these specific websites are able to post their personal profile and interact with their friends.
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The Valuable Alliance between Social Media and E-Commerce: Social Networks as a Tool for Transparency, Dialogue, and Sales
Communications platforms on the Internet where users share content and interact with those who have their own tastes and interests. They represent a powerful 2.0 tool that provides very significant advantages to the company, a source of great opportunity that allows it to more widely disseminate its news and updates on products, increase customer interaction and loyalty, provide personalized attention and obtain greater brand visibility.
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Social Issues in IT Project Teams
The group of people or staff that are involved in a relationship for a specific reason. For example, a social network of people having a discussion each week to discuss technical issues regarding a specific project.
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Influence of ICT in the Industrial Sector MSMEs
They called as a structure which represents a group of interrelated people and indicates the bonds that link them together.
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Social Networks on the Internet: Dissemination and Communication of Scientific Knowledge
Platforms on the internet that facilitate professional interaction, scientific dissemination, and communication, enhancing the work of researchers, students, teachers, and scientists.
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Review on the Application of Lexicon-Based Political Sentiment Analysis in Social Media
Tools used to disseminate information and interact with people virtually. Some examples are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok.
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Faculty Use and Perceptions of Web 2.0 in Higher Education
A web-based application that focuses on creating communities of individuals with shared interests, providing numerous methods of interaction between network participants. Popular social networks include Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, and MySpace.
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Gamification Strategies for Social Media
A set of web-based services and applications where users create and exchange content of their own creation.
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Virtual Tourism and Challenges in a Post-Pandemic Context
Is a social structure composed of persons or organizations, connected by one or several types of relationships, which share common values and goals.
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The Impact of User Experience With Technology on Course Expectations: How Ubiquitous Computing Has Trained Students to Be Consumers of Media in the Classroom
Websites and applications that allow users to interact with others socially through posting messages, pictures, and engaging in other purely social activities online through their portal.
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Smart Communities: Promoting Scientific Publications Through Academic Social Networks
The social network consists of the network that is created by the individuals for an interaction with other individuals with common interests.
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Carnivalesque Theory and Social Networks: A Qualitative Research on Twitter Accounts in Turkey
Social networking is a virtual communication environment where people come together with different purposes such as information, entertainment and socialization, communicate independently of time and space, create and display their own profile and access other users’ profiles.
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From the Psychoanalyst's Couch to Social Networks
In the definition of social networks, inter-relationality among diverse social actors, such as individual private users and organizations, is a core element.
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Learning Management System 2.0: Higher Education
Social network is Web 2.0 based services that enables users to create multi channels interactions through social media.
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More Than a Thousand Words!: Emoji Engagement on Turkish Airline Instagram Pages
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Digital Communication in Museums and Museological Spaces: Diagnosis of Baixo Alentejo, Portugal
Is a social structure composed of persons or organizations, connected by one or several types of relationships, which share common values and goals.
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Knowledge Networks in Higher Education
Channels and/or conduits of information and knowledge. SN research concentrates mainly on 2 types of social networks that reflect different contents or resources flowing through ties. Instrumental social networks are conduits for the circulation of information and resources. These are the most studied. Then there are the expressive networks reflect patterns of more affect-laden relationships. By focusing on epistemics, we also consider meaning, social and personal context, offering the theoretical and methodological lenses through which SNT and sociology tries to answer questions related to the creation and epistemic authority of knowledge, in our case in higher education.
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Mobile-Based Social Media, What Is Cutting?: Mobile-Based Social Media: Extensive Study Findings
information, comments, messages, pictures and so on. a private website or other application that allows users to communicate with each other by sending.
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Aspects of Security in Correlation Between the Use of Public, Urban, and Virtual Spaces
Dynamic places for gathering on Internet, without physical contact and with no spatial or time boundaries, influencing everyday life.
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Managing the Presence and Digital Identity of the Researchers in a Distance Learning Community: Some Impacts
The social network consists of the network that is created by the individuals for an interaction with other individuals with common interests.
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The Usage of Social Networks and Websites in International Luxury Brand Communication: An Example of the Automotive Sector
These are online applications, platform and media that facilitate interaction, collaboration and content sharing, like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
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The Role and Impact of Technology, Digitalisation, and Social Media on Consumer Experience in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: From the View of Women Entrepreneurs
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The Integration of Social Media Into Event Tourism
These websites allow users to create personal web pages and then connect with other people to share content and communicate with each other.
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Social Networks on the Internet: Dissemination and Communication of Scientific Knowledge
Online platforms where individuals interact and share content, including scientific research, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Mastodon, and Koo.
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Reconciling Social Media with Luxury Fashion Brands: An Exploratory Study
Are sites that allow people to build personal web pages and then connect with friends to share content and communication. The biggest social networks are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Cloud Computing for E-Governance
This allows people to build personal web pages and then connect with friends to share content and communicate.
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The Role of Information Communication Technologies in Enriching Adult Education Theory Building
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Audience Engagement and Transmedia Adaptation: The Case of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Online platforms that are used to communicate with other people or share information. They can be used for entertainment or for professional purposes.
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Social Media and User-Generated Content as a Teaching Innovation Tool in Universities
Social networks are structures formed on the Internet by people or organizations that connect based on common interests or values.
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Social Media, Social Networking, Copyright, and Digital Libraries
Connections that allow people using social media tools to create, upload and share content online. This content is created by millions of people and can be shared similarly.
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Building a Path for Future Communities
Groups of people who communicate with each other, and who often have shared interests and stronger social ties.
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Social Issues in IT Project Teams
The group of people or staff that are involved in a relationship for a specific reason. For example, a social network of people having a discussion each week to discuss technical issues regarding a specific project.
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The NetLab Network
A set of social actors - be they individuals, groups, organizations, or countries - and the relations among them.
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): The Power of the Tablet to Pocket Size Mobile Device on Learning and Assessment – Possibilities and Impacts on University Faculty, Students, and Staff
social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes”, which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige” (“Social network”, 2011, para. 1).
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Digital Journalism and Transmedia Narratives in the Communication of Science: From Disruption to Reinvention
Social platforms comprising different publics, which have had their apogee with digital advances, and which permit the transmission of messages and exchange of information between users.
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The Role of Social Relationships and Social Networks in IT Project Teams
The group of people or staff that are involved in a relationship for a specific reason. For example, a social network of people having a discussion each week to discuss technical issues regarding a specific project.
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Automatic Detection of Cyberbullying to Make Internet a Safer Environment
A social structure made of nodes and links, where nodes usually represents individuals or organizations. Nodes are connected with links.
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The Impact of Web 2.0 in the Teaching and Learning Process
It is a Web 2.0 tool that supports collaboration, knowledge sharing, interaction and communication of users from different places with a common goal.
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Digital Detox, Trends, and Segmentation in Tourism
Is a social structure composed of persons or organizations, connected by one or several types of relationships, which share common values and goals.
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Social Networks: The New Medium of Advertising – Instagram Case
A website or computer program that allows people to communicate and shareinformation on the internet using a computer or mobile phone.
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The Influence of (Online) Social Networks on Workers’ Attitudes and Behaviours in Higher Education Institutions
They function as communication channels and allow the exchange of resources to several levels, as a form of spreading and sharing ideas. The social relationships established at work are an important tool for the understanding of the workers’ outcomes in the organizations.
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Understanding the Role of Social Networks in Consumer Behavior in Tourism: A Business Approach
Is a social structure composed of persons or organizations, connected by one or several types of relationships, which share common values ??and goals.
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Online Human Activity Networks (OnHANs): An Analysis Based on Activity Theory
Social networks are a set of individuals having one or more relationships, interdependencies or activities in common which ties them together and result in complex structures.
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Before K and Beyond 20: The Sustainable Learning Paradigm
Informal groups of learners who interact regularly for the purpose of learning.
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Examining the Variables Affecting the Social Networks of the Elderly
It is a network of individuals (such as family, friends, acquaintances, and coworkers) connected by interpersonal relationships.
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Internet Marketing: Factor of Improving SME Business in Serbia
Are online web services that provide users with various forms of communication and the possibility of personal presentation.
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Cyber Security and Anti-Social Networking
Relationships between people with a common interest and a need to intercommunicate.
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Social Capital as a Factor of Success in Mexican Cooperatives: Case – Cooperativa “Las Chiquihuitecas” Producer of Grana Cochinilla
It is the set of links or interconnections that are generated through the coexistence and interaction of individuals or organizations in a social environment.
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Global Leadership Training and Technology
informal groups of learners who interact regularly for the purpose of learning.
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Human Factor Role for Cyber Threats Resilience
Networks for social communication and multiple information sharing, amongst Internet users.
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Marketing Trends in the Digital Age: The Rise of New Marketing Paradigms (Virtual Marketplaces, Connectivity, and Advocacy)
Virtual communities through which individuals connect and interact digitally with the purpose of sharing digital content and other forms of social and emotional manifestation.
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Rapid Changes in Approaching First-Time Destination Historical Cities
In the definition of social networks, inter-relationality among diverse social actors, such as individual private users and organizations, is a core element.
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Media Visibility in the Digital Context: Implications for Organizational Communication
A type of social media organized in a network form, which allows extensive interaction between users.
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Industrial Tourism and Literary Tourism: Niche Marketing Perspective and Regional Development
Is a social structure composed of persons or organizations, connected by one or several types of relationships, which share common values and goals. A social network is a website or app that lets users and businesses share info, promote business interests and more.
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Understanding Knowledge Networks Through Social Network Analysis
Social networks have been described as “a finite set or sets of actors and the relation or relations defined on them” ( Wasserman & Faust, 1994 , p. 20). In short, social networks reflect communication, collaboration and loose acquaintances in networked communities ( Reinhardt et al., 2009 ). A social network refers thus to an informal body consisting of a set of actors (e.g., individuals or groups) and the relationships between them. These relationships can be either weak or strong and has an effect on the creation and distribution of knowledge among its members.
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The Use of Online Social Networks in Higher Education and Its Influence on Job Performance
They function as communication channels and allow the exchange of resources to several levels, as a form of spreading and sharing ideas. The social relationships established at work are an important tool for the understanding of the workers’ outcomes in the organizations.
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Organizational Learning as a Social Process: A Social Capital and Network Approach
Webs of social relationship and social ties where actors interrelate and interact with each other.
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VLE Meets VW
This term refers to the connections between individuals in a community. Christakis and Fowler (2011) define this as “an organized set of people that consists of two kinds of elements: human beings and the connections between them. Real, everyday social networks evolve organically from the natural tendency of each person to seek out and make many or few friends, to have large or small families, to work in personable or anonymous workplaces” (p. 13).
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Internet Identity and the Right to be Forgotten: International Trends and Regulatory Perspectives
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors.
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The Impacts of Social Media in Higher Education Institutions: How It Evolves Social Media in Universities
Internet social media sites that are used to connect with different people and can have different purposes like for social interaction or business.
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YouTube as a Contemporary C2C Communication Channel for Companies: Analyzing Differences Between Sponsored and Non-Sponsored Videos
Social networks comprise social structures consisting of a set of social actors, individuals or organizations, and a set of ties between these actors. Social networks could be developed in an offline environment (implying personal relationships and interactions) and in an online environment (implying digital relationships and interactions).
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Student and Faculty Use and Perceptions of Web 2.0 Technologies in Higher Education
A web-based application that focuses on creating communities of individuals with shared interests, providing numerous methods of interaction between network participants. Popular social networks include Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, and MySpace
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Film-Induced Tourism and Selling Storytelling in Destination Marketing: The Legend of the Rooster of Barcelos (Portugal)
Is a social structure composed of persons or organizations, connected by one or several types of relationships, which share common values and goals.
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The Effectiveness of Big Data in Social Networks
Social structure which involves different subjects of any interested topics internationally whereby at least a group of two people interactively exchange.
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The Contribution of Tourist Events to Local Development: A Case Study With a Sport Perspective in the Post-COVID-19 Era
Is a social structure composed of persons or organizations, connected by one or several types of relationships, which share common values and goals.
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