虚拟穆斯林社区的社会网络

虚拟社区作为一种新型的社会网络,与现实社区一样,存在着强关系、弱关系等网络关系,因此,运用社会网络分析方法研究虚拟社区的互动结构,是一种恰当的方法.文章借助网络图呈现了虚拟穆斯林社区的整体社会关系网络,并在此基础上,运用点度、中心度、中介性、密度与凝聚度等指标,具体分析和梳理了虚拟穆斯林社区的整体社会网络.研究发现,在中国穆斯林网站,虽然已经形成了一定规模的围绕某些核心ID和热门话题的互动关系网络,但就整体网络而言,虚拟穆斯林社区的关系网络主要是一种弱关系网络,呈现的是一种扁平化、去中心化的网络结构.

Social Network of the Virtual Muslim Community

Virtual community,as a novel social structure,involves relations of various strengths the way a social community does,so it is rational to analyze the structure of virtual community using methods that are generally used in social community analysis.The paper examines,by means of web diagram methodology,the virtual community of the Muslims and their social network in general,concluding that China's Muslim wehsites,in spite of their topic-oriented relations,are fiat and decentralized because of their innate weakensses.