Penerapan Social Network Analysis dengan Menggunakan Metode Sociomatrix pada Akun Instagram Siswa SMA di Surabaya

Abstract

This study observes the relationships of the Instagram accounts of high school students in Surabaya using sociomatrix in Social Network Analysis. We found eighteen groups are consisting of one biggest sociogram and seven smaller sociograms based on a survey from 18 high schools in Surabaya. The largest sociogram consists of 12 high schools. The biggest node is a high school student of SMAN 7 Surabaya with 22 Instagram friends who follow each other. The strongest friendships is also found from SMAN 7 Surabaya high school, with total the same 360 account of followings and followers and the highest links valued at 6.0. The number of friendships between female students (289 connections) is approximately 2.5 times higher than the friendship between males student (115 connections). Besides, the friendships between females students are about the same number of the connections from the opposites sex (284 female-male connections or links)