Cohesion Analysis in na Academic Social Network

• Autor(a) principal: KOEHLER, Cristiane
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: CARVALHO, Marie Jane Soares
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Educação Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/educacaopublica/article/view/13393
• topic: social network analysis, cohesion, social manifestation; análise de redes sociais; coesão; manifestações sociais.

This article presents the network and network social interactions of a study group on the social networking site Facebook. The objective is to analyze the cohesion between the members of this academic group. We work with the analysis of social networks where group members are social actors and interactions are social connections. Relational structures show a centralized network with few actors around the teacher. The group is not cohesive. It is a group centered on a few actors who manage all the information, restricting the circulation of news on the network. The high value of the average degree of centrality of the network shows how strongly this network is hierarchical where few actors concentrate power over information. For online education, it is important to build social learning networks that encourage the engagement of the largest number of actors.