Influentials,novelty, and social contagion : The viral power of average friends,close communities,and old news |
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Authors: | Nicholas Harrigan Palakorn Achananuparp Ee-Peng Lim |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, 90 Stamford Road, Level 4, Singapore 178903, Singapore;2. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902, Singapore |
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Abstract: | What is the effect of (1) popular individuals, and (2) community structures on the retransmission of socially contagious behavior? We examine a community of Twitter users over a five month period, operationalizing social contagion as ‘retweeting’, and social structure as the count of subgraphs (small patterns of ties and nodes) between users in the follower/following network. |
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Keywords: | Social contagion Subgraphs Network motifs Influentials hypothesis Community structures Twitter |
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