European Journal of Social Behaviour 2 (1): 21-30, 2015 ISSN 2408-0292 Visualizations of personal social networks on Facebook and community structure: an exploratory study Christina Gkini 1 Alexios Brailas 2 Published online: 30 June 2015 Abstract: We...
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European Journal of Social Behaviour 2 (1): 21-30, 2015 ISSN 2408-0292 Visualizations of personal social networks on Facebook and community structure: an exploratory study Christina Gkini 1 Alexios Brailas 2 Published online: 30 June 2015 Abstract: We studied the community structure pattern in the visualizations of ten personal social networks on Facebook at a single point in time. It seems to be a strong tendency towards community formation in online personal, social networks: somebody’s friends are usually also friends between them, forming subgroups of more densely connected nodes. Research on community structure in social networks usually focuses on the networks’ statistical properties. There is a need for qualitative studies bridging the gap between network topologies and their sociological implications. To this direction, visual representations of personal networks in social media could be a valuable source of empirical data for qualitative interpretation. Most of the personal so
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