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Felix S. Hussenoeder
Social network sites (SNSs) have become ubiquitous around the globe and interwoven with all aspects of life. In this article, I will argue that the communicative infrastructure of SNSs, i.e., all SNS-elements that allow users to communicate, is a key element for understanding their impact as it creates environments in…
Sanjib Tiwari, Michael Lane, Khorshed Alam
Broadband is a general purpose technology and major enabler for building social capital (SC) by better connecting rural communities – locally, nationally and internationally with families and friends and broadening their circles of influence. The main objectives of this paper are to determine to what extent broadband…
Rense Corten, Attila Szolnoki
For social scientists, the remarkable rise to prominence of online social networks is relevant for at least two reasons. From a substantive point of view, online social networks provide a novel way of social interaction, providing individuals with new ways to communicate, spread information, and coordinate collective…
Tushti Rastogi
This paper presents a method to validate the true patrons of a brand, group, artist or any other entity on the social networking site Twitter. We analyze the trend of total number of tweets, average retweets and total number of followers for various nodes for different social and political backgrounds. We argue that…
Felix S Hussenoeder
capital for mental health Authors: Felix S Hussenoeder Social network sites are an essential part of the daily lives of people around the globe, but our theoretical understanding of the phenomenon is still limited. However, to fully grasp the potential of social network sites and to be able to generate meaningful…
Michael Peer, Mordechai Hayman, Bar Tamir, Shahar Arzy
To successfully navigate our social world, we keep track of other individuals’ relations to ourselves and to each other. But how does the brain encode this information? To answer this question, we mined participants’ social media (Facebook^TM^) profiles to objectively characterize the relations between individuals in…
Lyudmyla Kirichenko, Тамара Радівілова, Anders Carlsson
This article considers a short survey of basic methods of social networks analysis, which are used for detecting cyber threats. The main types of social network threats are presented. Basic methods of graph theory and data mining, that deals with social networks analysis are described. Typical security tasks of social…
Elisa C Baek, Mason A Porter, Carolyn Parkinson
Although social neuroscience is concerned with understanding how the brain interacts with its social environment, prevailing research in the field has primarily considered the human brain in isolation, deprived of its rich social context. Emerging work in social neuroscience that leverages tools from network analysis…
Piotr Bródka, Krzysztof Skibicki, Przemysław Kazienko, Katarzyna Musiał
'Katarzyna Musiał'] Abstract— Multi-layered social networks reflect complex relationships existing in modern interconnected IT systems. In such a network each pair of nodes may be linked by many edges that correspond to different communication or collaboration user activities. Multi-layered degree centrality for…
Paolo Parigi, Bogdan State, Diana Dakhlallah, Rense Corten + 2 more
'Karen Cook' 'Tobias Preis'] In this paper we explore two contrasting perspectives on individuals' participation in associations. On the one hand, some have considered participation the byproduct of pre-existing friendship ties - the more friends one already has in the association, the more likely he or she is to…
Ben Kawam, Julia Ostner, Richard McElreath, Oliver Schülke + 1 more
A major goal of behavioural ecology is to explain how phenotypic and ecological factors shape the social relationships that animals form with one another. This inferential task is notoriously challenging. The social networks of interest are generally not observed, but must be approximated from behavioural samples.…
Brenna Marie Gagliardi, Nader St-Amant, Roslyn Dakin
Social networks can shape the evolution and transmission of behaviours. Recent studies have characterized social networks within species, but we know relatively little about the drivers of variation in the structure of social networks across species. Here, we analyze a database of 631 social networks from more than 30…
Wajeb Gharibi, Maha Shaabi
A social network is a social structure made up of individuals or organizations called nodes, which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, common interest, and exchange of finance, relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. A cyber threat can be both unintentional and…
Jae-Young Son, Marc-Lluís Vives, Apoorva Bhandari, Oriel FeldmanHall
To make adaptive social decisions, people must anticipate how information flows through their social network. While this requires knowledge of how people are connected, networks are too large to have firsthand experience with every possible route between individuals. How, then, are people able to accurately track…
Valeria Gelardi, Alain Barrat, Nicolas Claidiere
Networks are well-established representations of social systems, and temporal networks are widely used to study their dynamics. Temporal network data often consist in a succession of static networks over consecutive time windows whose length, however, is arbitrary, not necessarily corresponding to any intrinsic…
João C. Magalhães, Nick Couldry
Critical platform scholars have long suggested, if indirectly, that social media power is somehow akin to social engineering. This article argues that the parallel is analytically productive, but for reasons that are more complex than has previously been appreciated. By examining Facebook’s foundational technologies…
Amiyaal Ilany, Erol Akcay
The social network structure of animal populations has major implications to survival, reproductive success, sexual selection, and pathogen transmission. Recent studies showed in various species that the structure of social networks and individuals’ positions in it are influenced by individual traits such as sex, age…
Changtao Zhong, Nishanth Sastry
The aim of this article is to provide an understanding of social networks as a useful addition to the standard tool-box of techniques used by system designers. To this end, we give examples of how data about social links have been collected and used in different application contexts. We develop a broad taxonomy-based…
Anson Au
How do people form personal ties? A consensus holds in sociological and social network scholarship that in-person networks are dominated by status homophily and that guanxi networks rely extensively on balance. This article argues that social networking sites (SNSs) reconceptualize the character of homophily and…
Naruki Yoshikawa, Ryuichi Kubo, Kazuki Yamamoto
Social media activity on a research article is considered to be an altmetric, a new measure to estimate research impact. Demonstrating software on Twitter is a powerful way to attract attention from a larger audience. SNS integration of software can also lower the barriers to trying the tools and make it easier to save…
Naruki Yoshikawa, Kentaro Rikimaru, Kazuki Yamamoto
Many computer-aided drug design (CADD) methods using deep learning have recently been proposed to explore the chemical space toward novel scaffolds efficiently. However, there is a tradeoff between the ease of generating novel structures and the chemical feasibility of structural formulas. To overcome the limitations…