期刊
PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
卷 436, 期 -, 页码 582-595出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.05.075
关键词
Multiplex networks; Simplicial complexes; Online social networks; Simmelian brokerage
资金
- Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia [P1-0044]
- European Community's COST Action [TD1210 KNOWeSCAPE]
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia [OI 174014]
In online communications, patterns of conduct of individual actors and use of emotions in the process can lead to a complex social graph exhibiting multilayered structure and meso-scopic communities. Using simplicial complexes representation of graphs, we investigate in-depth topology of the online social network constructed from MySpace dialogs which exhibits original community structure. A simulation of emotion spreading in this network leads to the identification of two emotion-propagating layers. Three topological measures are introduced, referred to as the structure vectors, which quantify graph's architecture at different dimension levels. Notably, structures emerging through shared links, triangles and tetrahedral faces, frequently occur and range from tree-like to maximal 5-cliques and their respective complexes. On the other hand, the structures which spread only negative or only positive emotion messages appear to have much simpler topology consisting of links and triangles. The node's structure vector represents the number of simplices at each topology level in which the node resides and the total number of such simplices determines what we define as the node's topological dimension. The presented results suggest that the node's topological dimension provides a suitable measure of the social capital which measures the actor's ability to act as a broker in compact communities, the so called Simmelian brokerage. We also generalize the results to a wider class of computer-generated networks. Investigating components of the node's vector over network layers reveals that same nodes develop different socio-emotional relations and that the influential nodes build social capital by combining their connections in different layers. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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