A study of homophily on social media

The fact that similarity breeds connections, the principle of homophily, has been well-studied in existing sociology literature. Several studies have observed this phenomenon by conducting surveys on human subjects. These studies have concluded that new ties are formed between similar individuals. T...

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Published inWorld wide web (Bussum) Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 213 - 232
Main Authors Bisgin, Halil, Agarwal, Nitin, Xu, Xiaowei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.03.2012
Subjects
Computer Science
Database Management
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Operating Systems
Latent Dirichlet Allocation
World Wide
Social Medium
Online Social Network
Virtual World
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