Search results for "Homophily"

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The impact of user’s availability on On-line Ego Networks: a Facebook analysis

2016

We have defined and implemented a Facebook application to log a Facebook dataset.We have studied and validated the structural properties of the whole dataset and of the Dunbar ego networks.We have analyzed the interactions of the users.The availability of the users in the Dunbar ego networks have been investigated.Our results reveal the presence of the temporal homophily property in the Dunbar ego networks. Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the most popular applications in todays Internet and they have changed the way people interact with each other. Understanding the structural properties of OSNs and, in particular, how users behave when they connect to OSNs is crucial for designing user-c…

Structure (mathematical logic)Dunbar's circleOnline Social NetworksOnline Social NetworkSocial networkComputer Networks and CommunicationsProperty (programming)business.industryComputer scienceInternet privacy020206 networking & telecommunicationsSample (statistics)02 engineering and technologyHomophilyTemporal homophilyWorld Wide WebOnline Social Networks; Temporal homophily; Dunbar's circlesLine (geometry)0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringDunbar's circles020201 artificial intelligence & image processingThe InternetbusinessSet (psychology)Computer Communications
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Discovering Homophily in Online Social Networks

2018

During the last ten years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have increased their popularity by becoming part of the real life of users. Despite their tremendous widespread, OSNs have introduced several privacy issues as a consequence of the nature of the information involved in these services. Indeed, the huge amount of private information produced by users of current OSNs expose the users to a number of risks. The analysis of the users’ similarity in OSNs is attracting the attention of researchers because of its implications on privacy and social marketing. In particular, the homophily between users could be used to reveal important characteristics that users would like to keep hidden, hence …

Viral marketingComputer scienceComputer Networks and CommunicationsInternet privacy02 engineering and technologyInformation SystemHomophilyHomophilyViral marketing020204 information systemsSimilarity (psychology)0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringInformation systemPrivate information retrievalOnline Social NetworkOnline Social Networksbusiness.industryPopularitySocial marketingTie strengthPrivacy preservingHardware and ArchitectureHomophily; Online Social Networks; Privacy preserving; User profiling; Viral marketing; Software; Information Systems; Hardware and Architecture; Computer Networks and Communications020201 artificial intelligence & image processingUser profilingbusinessSoftwareInformation Systems
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Best Friends Forever? Modeling the Mechanisms of Friendship Network Formation

2020

The formation of friendships and alliances is a ubiquitous feature of human life, and likely a crucial component of the cooperative hunting and child-rearing practices that helped our early hominin ancestors survive. Research on contemporary human beings typically finds that strong-tie social networks are fairly small, and reveals a high degree of physical (e.g., age) and social-structural (e.g., educational attainment) homophily. Yet, existing work all too often underestimates, or even ignores, the importance of abstract, symbolic homophily (such as shared identities or worldviews) as a driver of friendship formation. Here we employ agent-based modeling to identify the optimal variable wei…

media_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences050109 social psychology050105 experimental psychologyHomophilyEducational attainmentVariable (computer science)FriendshipOrder (exchange)KinshipOutgroup0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesCooperative huntingPsychologySocial psychologymedia_common2020 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
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