Assembling thefacebook: Using heterogeneity to understand online social network assembly

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Web Science Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jacobs, Abigail Z ^a   Way, Samuel F ^a   Ugander, Johan ^b   Clauset, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

H.5.3 group and organization interfaces : web based interaction; H.5.4 hypertext hypermedia : theory; K.4.0 computers and society : general

Indexed keywords

GROUP THEORY; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; WEBSITES;

COMPLEMENTARY DATA; COMPUTERS AND SOCIETIES; H.5.4 [HYPERTEXT/HYPERMEDIA]: THEORY; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEMS; USER HETEROGENEITY; WEB BASED;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84978127765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2786451.2786477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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