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Making Personal Networks with a Computer: Lessons from the Field using Vennmaker

open access: yesConnections
Vennmaker software was created as a tool for actor-centered and interactive networks. It has many options that users can implement at different stages of their studies.
Fradejas-García Ignacio   +1 more
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The internet as interpersonal media: Case of Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesSociologija, 2013
Bearing in mind that modern technological tools for communication play an integral role in sustaining of social relationships, the aim of this article is to determine whether the internet has been replacing face to face (FtF) contacts in sustaining ...
Petrović Dalibor
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Association of personal network attributes with clean cooking adoption in rural South India

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
Adoption of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is the primary policy approach in India to transition rural poor communities toward clean cooking behavior. Prior clean cooking studies show that affordability, accessibility, and awareness impact LPG adoption in
Praveen Kumar   +7 more
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Revisiting the culture–social structure duality debate through the lens of personal networks

open access: yesConnections
In this article, we address a long-standing debate in social science about whether culture or social structure provides the best lens for understanding human behavior and how that scales to the level of social institutions.
Molina José Luis   +3 more
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En busca del contenido de las redes sociales: los "motivos" de las relaciones.

open access: yesREDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales, 2009
I propose here to restore the importance of the relationship as a basic unit for social networks and to explore what makes its "substance", considered from the angle of the "driving force" of the relationship.
Bidart, Claire
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Analysing the Role of Social Visits on Migrants’ Social Capital: A Personal Network Approach

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2017
There are concerns that migrants may be embedded in far-flung networks with support being less collective. The spatial dispersion of their relatives and friends would result in fragmented networks with lower solidarity and lower mutual trust than densely
Gil Viry   +4 more
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Networking in personal networks

open access: yes, 2005
This paper addresses networking in terms of tunnels and overlays establishment, naming, addressing and routing for Personal Networks (PN). A number of concepts to achieve PN networking and management are presented. A PN Agent is introduced in the PN architecture.
Alutoin, Mikko   +7 more
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Récits de ruptures conjugales : « créer du sens » en négociant les frontières du réseau

open access: yesEnfances, Familles, Générations, 2019
Research framework: In a context characterized both by an increase in the number of separations and by the persistence of the model of coupledom, an intimate relationship breakdown is an event that is experienced as a personal and painful ordeal by the ...
Gaëlle Aeby
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Accelerating a Network Model of Care: Taking a Social Innovation to Scale [PDF]

open access: yesTechnology Innovation Management Review, 2012
Government-funded systems of health and social care are facing enormous fiscal and human-resource challenges. The space for innovation in care is wide open and new disruptive patterns are emerging.
Kerry Byrne, Vickie Cammack
doaj  

Social Support Networks and the Mental Health of Runaway and Homeless Youth

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2017
In response to growing concerns about the rising number of runaway and homeless youth (RHY) in the U.S., researchers have sought to improve the scientific understanding of health and mental health needs, as well as the social resources available to these
Eric R. Wright   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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