Facebook as a Small World: a topological hypothesis

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 163-167

  Caci, Barbara ^a   Cardaci, Maurizio ^a   Tabacchi, Marco E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Istituto Nazionale di Ricerche Demopolis   (Italy)

Author keywords

Facebook; Small World networks; Social networks; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY;

FACEBOOK; INDIVIDUAL CHOICE; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; SMALL WORLDS; SPECIFIC SUBSET; TOPOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS; TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; WEB 2.0;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84891760695     PISSN: 18695450     EISSN: 18695469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-011-0042-8     Document Type: Article

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