| Description |
1 online resource (electronic texts (323 pages)) |
| Contents |
1. Social networks and communities: from traditional society to the virtual sphere / Francesca Odella -- 2. Network perspective on structures related to communities / Alvin Wolfe -- 3. Civic engagement and communication technology networks / Philip J. Salem -- 4. The social construction of new cultural models through information and communication technologies / Almudena Moreno -- 5. From virtual to the simulated world: an agent-based model of friendship network in Second Life / Sadaf Alvi and Shah Jamal Alam -- 6. Analysis of success factors in social networking website development / Zanita Zahari and Eric Pardede -- 7. Knowledge discovery from online communities / Luca Cagliero and Alessandro Fiori -- 8. Information diffusion in social networks / Dmitry Zinoviev -- 9. Social network, information flow and decision-making efficiency: a comparison of humans and animals / Cédric Sueur -- 10. Extracting and measuring relationship strength in social networks / Steven Gustafson and Abha Moitra -- 11. Bringing qualitative and quantitative data together: collecting network data with the help of the software tool VennMaker / Markus Gamper, Michael Schönhuth and Michael Kronenwett -- 12. Observing the evolution of a learning community using social network analysis / Francesca Grippa, Marco De Maggio and Angelo Corallo -- 13. Social networks and terrorism / David Knoke -- 14. Social network sites: modeling the new business-customer relationship / Pedro Isaías, Sara Pífano and Paula Miranda -- 15. Community structure extraction for social networks / Helen Hadush [and others] -- 16. Towards a bespoke framework for eliciting consumer satisfaction in Second Life / Mitul Shukla, Marc Conrad and Nik Bessis -- 17. Finding similar users in Facebook / Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara and Giacomo Fiumara |
| Summary |
"This book provides a clear and consolidated view of current social network models, exploring new methods for modeling, characterizing, and constructing social networks"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Business social networks |
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Information diffusion |
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Mobile social networks |
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Models of social networks |
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Robustness of social networks |
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Virtual online communities |
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Social network evolution |
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Social networks and terrorism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Social networks.
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Social Support
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Negotiating.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Interpersonal Relations.
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Social networks
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Safar, Maytham H.
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Mahdi, Khaled A., 1970-
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| ISBN |
9781613504451 |
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1613504454 |
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