• DocumentCode
    2326739
  • Title

    Exploring user sociocentric and egocentric behaviors in online and detected social networks

  • Author

    Socievole, Annalisa ; Marano, Salvatore

  • Author_Institution
    D.E.I.S. Dept., Univ. of Calabria, Rende, Italy
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    25-27 April 2012
  • Firstpage
    140
  • Lastpage
    147
  • Abstract
    Social ties are increasingly constructed and maintained by online social networking tools. These online tools provide an alternative to the more traditional physical meeting approach of establishing and maintaining social relationships. This paper explores the similarities and the differences between the Bluetooth-based detected social network and the Facebook social network, for a particular set of users. Specifically, we explore and compare the egocentric and the sociocentric behaviors of nodes, highlighting the structural similarities between the two types of networks and the differences in how individuals take part in detected social network and online social network. Performing a sociocentric network analysis, our results indicate that betweenness centrality has a relatively high correlation, while the other users´ centrality measures in the online social network and the detected social network vary considerably. Moreover, our results shows that the community structures of the two networks differ. The egocentric analysis further confirms that the detected and the online social networks have different structural characteristics.
  • Keywords
    Bluetooth; social aspects of automation; social networking (online); Bluetooth; Facebook social network; betweenness centrality; egocentric behavior; online social networking tool; social relationship; sociocentric network analysis; user sociocentric behavior; Communities; Correlation; Facebook; Internet; Measurement; Routing; Facebook; contact traces; online social network;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Future Internet Communications (BCFIC), 2012 2nd Baltic Congress on
  • Conference_Location
    Vilnius
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1672-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BCFIC.2012.6217994
  • Filename
    6217994