Social Groups, Social Media, and Higher Dimensional Social Structures: A Simplicial Model of Social Aggregation for Computational Communication Research

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-58

  Kee, Kerk F ^a   Sparks, Lisa ^a   Struppa, Daniele C ^a   Mannucci, Mirco ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication Networks; Computational Simulation; Higher Dimensional Groups; Mathematical Modeling; Social Aggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873952189     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2012.719566     Document Type: Article

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