Network Development Summer Academy Goethe Institut : Day One

Process Facilitation and Documentation: Dr. Marcus Hildebrandt

Content: characteristics of networks and goal orientation

First assignement: mental models of social networks

Process of creating pictures of social networks

Results (I)

Results (II)

Results (III)

Results (IV)

Results (V)

Characteristics of drawn pictures and common feature: normal distribution of links of the nodes leading to the notion of an average number of links per node

Dynamic evolution of social networks: rich–get-richer phenomena and the notion of fitnes of nodes

Scale-free networks and the „Small world Phenomena“

Learning points: social network theory (to be continued the next day)

Second assignment: purpose of social network in the context of the „pipeline business game“

Group A in process

Group B in process

In the meantime…

Result group B

Result group A

Process evaluation