Does similarity breed connection? - An investigation in blogcatalog and last.fm communities

Proceedings - SocialCom 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 570-575

  Bisgin, Halil ^a   Agarwal, Nitin ^a   Xu, Xiaowei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; HOMOPHILY; HUMAN MIND; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LAST.FM; REAL-WORLD; SIMILAR INDIVIDUALS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MOBILITY; USER PARTICIPATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78649273049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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