Online Social Networks
Subtitle: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter Personal Graphs
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780128030233
Subjects: Online social networks; Facebook (electronic resource); Twitter
Description: Online Social Networks: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter provides new insights into the structural properties of personal online social networks and the mechanisms underpinning human online social behavior. As the availability of digital communication data generated by social media is revolutionizing the field of social networks analysis, the text discusses the use of large- scale datasets to study the structural properties of online ego networks, to compare them with the properties of general human social networks, and to highlight additional properties.