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

Ignacio Fradejas-García
Ignacio Fradejas-García
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Francisca Ortiz Ruiz
Francisca Ortiz Ruiz
   | Jul 20, 2024
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Published Online: Jul 20, 2024
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/connections-2019.036
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Figure 1:

At left, anonymized personal network of an international (expat) aid worker made with paper, sticky notes and colored pencils. The inner circle is for ego’s household, the outer circles, which are inside out and in order, locate alters living in the same city, alters living in other cities in Turkey, and alters living elsewhere in the world, i.e. outside Turkey. The circles are divided into three parts: living, working and working-living environment. Alters are organized within three main categories of sticky notes, distinguished by color: friends in green, relatives in blue, working colleagues in orange. Then the interviewee was asked which alters are expats, Syrians or Turkish, their sex/gender, and whether they were aid-workers. The interview was audio-recorded. On the right is the same network from the left, but done in Vennmaker and simplifying some of the circle divisions to ease the placing of alters. Source: elaborated by first author.
At left, anonymized personal network of an international (expat) aid worker made with paper, sticky notes and colored pencils. The inner circle is for ego’s household, the outer circles, which are inside out and in order, locate alters living in the same city, alters living in other cities in Turkey, and alters living elsewhere in the world, i.e. outside Turkey. The circles are divided into three parts: living, working and working-living environment. Alters are organized within three main categories of sticky notes, distinguished by color: friends in green, relatives in blue, working colleagues in orange. Then the interviewee was asked which alters are expats, Syrians or Turkish, their sex/gender, and whether they were aid-workers. The interview was audio-recorded. On the right is the same network from the left, but done in Vennmaker and simplifying some of the circle divisions to ease the placing of alters. Source: elaborated by first author.

Figure 2:

Notes for the three networks: The inner circle is for people living in the same city (Gaziantep), while the outer circle locates alters living outside it. The green area is for friends, purple for co-workers and orange for family. Closeness is symbolized by the size of the circle representing each person. Relations in which each member knows the other are represented by lines connecting alters. Source: elaborated by first author.
Notes for the three networks: The inner circle is for people living in the same city (Gaziantep), while the outer circle locates alters living outside it. The green area is for friends, purple for co-workers and orange for family. Closeness is symbolized by the size of the circle representing each person. Relations in which each member knows the other are represented by lines connecting alters. Source: elaborated by first author.

Figure 3:

Social-support networks in Javiera in 2019. The left-hand network is the support from ego to alter, the right-hand one the support from alter to ego. I measured the material aid, level of intimacy, advice, physical assistance, feedback, positive social interaction, and negative social interactions. Each type of support is represented using one color (in the same order): light blue, pink, yellow, brown, blue, green, and red. Source: elaborated by the second author.
Social-support networks in Javiera in 2019. The left-hand network is the support from ego to alter, the right-hand one the support from alter to ego. I measured the material aid, level of intimacy, advice, physical assistance, feedback, positive social interaction, and negative social interactions. Each type of support is represented using one color (in the same order): light blue, pink, yellow, brown, blue, green, and red. Source: elaborated by the second author.
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