Exploring Temporal Communication Through Social Networks

The dissemination of information in social networks and the relative effect of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) use has long been an interesting area of study in the field of sociology, human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. To date, a lot of research has been conducted regarding an actor’s mobile phone usage behavior while disseminating information within a mobile social network. In this study, we explore the structured network position of individuals using mobile phone and their ability to disseminate information within their social network. Our proposition is that an actor’s ability to disseminate information within a social group is affected by their structural network position. In this paper, we determine an actor’s structural network position by four different measures of centrality—(i) degree, (ii) closeness, (iii) betweenness, and (iv) eigenvector centrality. We analyse the Reality Mining dataset, which contains mobile phone u...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: INTERACT
• Authors: Liaquat Hossain, Kon Shing Kenneth Chung, Shahriar Tanvir Hasan Murshed
• Keywords: Human Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2007, Mobile Phone, Network Position, Social Network