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Social Communication Network: Case Study

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Synonyms

Call network; Communication network; Interaction network; Mobile network; Social interaction

Glossary

BC:

Betweenness centrality

CC:

Closeness centrality

DC:

Degree centrality

IM:

Instant messaging

SNA:

Social network analysis

SP:

Shortest path

Definition

Social network is formally defined as a set of social actors that are connected by one or more types of relations (Wasserman and Faust 1994). Social actors can be individuals, groups, organizations, and even any units that can be connected to other units such as web pages, blogs, emails, instant messages, families, journal articles, neighborhoods, classes, sectors within organizations, positions, or nations (Furht 2010).

Social communication network is one of the most important social networks. In a social communication network, social actors are mostly persons, and the relationship between them is established for the purpose of communication. In a social communication network, social actors use communication tools such as...

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  1. School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Bin Liang, Bo Xu, Qi Liu & Yanghua Xiao

  2. School of Data Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Deqing Yang

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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Liang, B., Xu, B., Yang, D., Liu, Q., Xiao, Y. (2018). Social Communication Network: Case Study. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_289

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