From the early social movements like the Fall of Berlin Wall in 1989, to the WTO protest in Seattle during 2009, to the recent “#BlackLivesMatter” movement in 2013, it is not hard to find that the evolution of activism passed through two stages. Before the emergence of information and communication technologies, revolutions and protests were […]
The first graph shows a typical unified network. The tight crowd mainly consists of 5 medium groups. This is a network of 403 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained “#NASPAA2018”, or who were replied to or mentioned in those tweets. NASPAA stands for Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration, which is a […]
The continuous growth in the amount of Facebook users may suggest one thing: people love to build online social networks and tend to make their network sizes as big as possible. Though some people may have up to 500 Facebook friends, as Dunbar suggested, people’s personal networks actually have a maximum size of 150. According […]