Romantic partnerships and the dispersion of social ties: A network analysis of relationship status on facebook

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 831-841

  Backstrom, Lars ^a   Kleinberg, Jon ^b  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Romantic Relationships; Social Networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISPERSIONS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

FACEBOOK; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ON-LINE APPLICATIONS; ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP; SOCIAL TIES; TIE STRENGTHS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84899021693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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