Abstract--The increasing popularity of social media is shortening the distance between people. Social activities, e.g., tagging in Flickr, bookmarking in Delicious, twittering in T...
In this paper, a social network model based on real social relationships, referred as Relation Grid, is proposed. Relation grid is isomorphic to the actual social network; hence it...
Abstract. The growing popularity of online social networks gave researchers access to large amount of network data and renewed interest in methods for automatic community detection...
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people...