TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY SOCIAL
NETWORKS POWER AND INEQUALITY
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● What are the different Kinds of Social Networks?
Answer: They can be anything: plants, animals, work, enemies etc
●● What Can Social Networks Be Used For?
Answer: - A variety of uses. You can look at patterns along these
relationships
- offer insight into wide variety of social, personal, and organizational
issues
●● What are the Examples of Overlapping Networks?
Answer: You have a friend that goes to UCSB and is also from the bay
area
●● What are the 7 central themes for Network Literacy?
Answer: 1. Networks are everywhere
,2. Networks describe how things connect, interact and how things are
separate and don't interact
3. Networks can help reveal patterns
4. Visualization Can Help Provide an Understanding of Networks
5. Lots of Software Tools to Collect and Study Networks
6. Networks Help You Compare a Wide Variety of Systems
7. Structure of a Network Can Influence Its State and Vice Versa
●● 1. Networks are everywhere (7 Central Theme)
Answer: - broad & general; part of every aspect of life
- economic, people, biological & ecological, cultural, historical,
religious, varying spatial scales, varying temporal scales
●● 2. Networks describe how things connect, and interact and how
things are separate and don't interact (7 Central Theme)
Answer: - Connections are links, edges and ties (ex: link = bff and
person a & b are entities & some links are not equal)
- entities are nodes, vertices and actors
- undirected (symmetric) & direct (asymmetric)
- Different strengths & pos/neg (measurement)
- # of node's connections: degree (measurement)
- multiple types of connections in a network
- sequences of edges: path
, - group interconnected by paths: components (how groups are
interconnected)
●● 3. Networks can help reveal patterns (7 Central Themes)
Answer: - describe through nodes, relations, groups, patterns
- sub-structure or hierarchy
- path lengths (steps needed to connect)
- clusters or communities
- use to explain/predict certain phenomena
●● 4. Visualization Can Help Provide an Understanding of Networks
Answer: - matrix (who-to-whom; who to what, table with numbers -->
90 students talking to ea other 90x90)
- sociogram: connected nodes via edges (social network graph)
- visualizing helps understand & communicate about the network (lots of
different ways to show visuals)
- visualizations do not tell the whole story
●● 5. Lots of Software Tools to Collect and Study Networks
Answer: - many free, educational & commercial computer programs for
collecting, analyzing, visualizing networks
- many datasets, help, tutorials on internet
- many career implications
NETWORKS POWER AND INEQUALITY
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● What are the different Kinds of Social Networks?
Answer: They can be anything: plants, animals, work, enemies etc
●● What Can Social Networks Be Used For?
Answer: - A variety of uses. You can look at patterns along these
relationships
- offer insight into wide variety of social, personal, and organizational
issues
●● What are the Examples of Overlapping Networks?
Answer: You have a friend that goes to UCSB and is also from the bay
area
●● What are the 7 central themes for Network Literacy?
Answer: 1. Networks are everywhere
,2. Networks describe how things connect, interact and how things are
separate and don't interact
3. Networks can help reveal patterns
4. Visualization Can Help Provide an Understanding of Networks
5. Lots of Software Tools to Collect and Study Networks
6. Networks Help You Compare a Wide Variety of Systems
7. Structure of a Network Can Influence Its State and Vice Versa
●● 1. Networks are everywhere (7 Central Theme)
Answer: - broad & general; part of every aspect of life
- economic, people, biological & ecological, cultural, historical,
religious, varying spatial scales, varying temporal scales
●● 2. Networks describe how things connect, and interact and how
things are separate and don't interact (7 Central Theme)
Answer: - Connections are links, edges and ties (ex: link = bff and
person a & b are entities & some links are not equal)
- entities are nodes, vertices and actors
- undirected (symmetric) & direct (asymmetric)
- Different strengths & pos/neg (measurement)
- # of node's connections: degree (measurement)
- multiple types of connections in a network
- sequences of edges: path
, - group interconnected by paths: components (how groups are
interconnected)
●● 3. Networks can help reveal patterns (7 Central Themes)
Answer: - describe through nodes, relations, groups, patterns
- sub-structure or hierarchy
- path lengths (steps needed to connect)
- clusters or communities
- use to explain/predict certain phenomena
●● 4. Visualization Can Help Provide an Understanding of Networks
Answer: - matrix (who-to-whom; who to what, table with numbers -->
90 students talking to ea other 90x90)
- sociogram: connected nodes via edges (social network graph)
- visualizing helps understand & communicate about the network (lots of
different ways to show visuals)
- visualizations do not tell the whole story
●● 5. Lots of Software Tools to Collect and Study Networks
Answer: - many free, educational & commercial computer programs for
collecting, analyzing, visualizing networks
- many datasets, help, tutorials on internet
- many career implications
