Networks

 

Today is a time of connectedness. Modern society is facing a great spectrum of forms to express their ideas and connect with people into the whole world. This connectedness may develop different sources of information. In fact, the connectedness is a source of information. From all the social networks that in this moment exist in the web, we can extract a lot of tendencies, modes and data thhat allow us to know about what is going on in different sectors of the society. And, it could be helpful to know more about this tendencies and modes. Analyse what people want at this moment and to predict what people could want in the future may be an advantage.
A tool that we may use to visualize and analyze this data is the Network Theory. A network is a pattern of interconnections among a set of things. We may find networks at home, at the office, at the market, etc. In all these networks the essential element is the communication, or information transferring. Then in each discussion, or commentary in which we found an interchanging of ideas among different actors, we found a network.
In society we found a diversity of networks that by its nature may be constituted by strong or weak ties. We found the basic network that is the family which in fact constitutes the unit of the society (strong ties), after this, we found the friend’s network that may contain strong and weak ties. These networks have become more complicated and complex with the technologic advances since at this moment we can share information and have more contact among all the elements (persons) that constitute the networks.
The technological advances like the facility of distant travel, the global communication and the digital interaction in fact may be considered like another parallel network that interact and helps to develop our social network.
So, the network’s study has become more fascinating with the pass of time and has acquired a lot of importance in our lives. That is why their knowledge, characterisation and study is becoming more important in this blog.