The described dissertation focuses on social regulation of user behavior within virtual social spaces. A multi-year field study of two fantasy-based game MUDs (multi-user dungeons...
We analyze empirical data of Germany’s largest online social lending platform Smava.de to exemplarily study the contribution of unstructured, ambiguous, or unverified informatio...
—Location-based Social Networks (LSNs) allow users to see where their friends are, to search location-tagged content within their social graph, and to meet others nearby. The rec...
—The hidden knowledge in social networks data can be regarded as an important resource for criminal investigations which can help finding the structure and organization of a crim...
An overview is provided of recent developments in the use of latent class (LC) models in social science research. Special attention is paid to the application of LC analysis as a f...