{"id":1050,"date":"2021-10-21T13:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2021-10-24T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T17:40:13","slug":"alvin-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/21\/alvin-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin-Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0A network is any form of connection between two or more parties. This can be through sharing information or having similar interests. I am fascinated by the concept of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">actor network theory <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because it explores the structure of a network. The more components in a network, the stronger the performance. An example of this is any celebrity fan base. Most celebrity fans do not know each other although they are still a part of a very huge network which has supported the fame of the celebrity<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Other forms of networks include\u00a0 sports clubs which will have different elements for acceptance and maintenance. Elements such as skill level, class and experience\u00a0 among the various individuals will create a web of relationships hence a network.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Social networks for example LinkedIn were purposefully made with the aim of networking and career development. Such online networks are more popular because they are able to connect various people globally sharing similar ideas together and communication has never been easier in this era due to social media. Information is shared and debated online all over the world creating various networks.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both online and real life networks have some sort of hierarchy and it is very natural that people want to be at the top of the network or at least be acquainted with the top people in a specific network in order to get the best out of it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A network is any form of connection between two or more parties. This can be through sharing information or having similar interests. I am fascinated by the concept of actor network theory because it explores the structure of a network. The more components in a network, the stronger the performance. An example of this is any celebrity fan base. Most&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/21\/alvin-network\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}