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2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Finding hierarchy in directed online social networks
Social hierarchy and stratification among humans is a well studied concept in sociology. The popularity of online social networks presents an opportunity to study social hierarch...
Mangesh Gupte, Pravin Shankar, Jing Li, S. Muthukr...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
Geography and social relationships are inextricably intertwined; the people we interact with on a daily basis almost always live near us. As people spend more time online, data re...
Lars Backstrom, Eric Sun, Cameron Marlow
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Groupthink and Peer Pressure: Social Influence in Online Social Network Groups
In this paper, we present a horizontal view of social influence, more specifically a quantitative study of the influence of neighbours on the probability of a particular node to jo...
Pan Hui, Sonja Buchegger
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
The impact of network structure on breaking ties in online social networks: unfollowing on twitter
We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Priya Govindan, Mor Naaman
ICWSM
2010
14 years 6 days ago
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Zeynep Tufekci