Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
A mundane but theoretically interesting and practically relevant situation presents itself on social networking sites: the co-presence of multiple groups important to an individua...
Since privacy information can be inferred via social relations, the privacy confidentiality problem becomes increasingly challenging as online social network services are more popu...
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...
—Social networks and discussion boards have become a significant outlet where people communicate and express their opinion freely. Although the social networks themselves are us...