• DocumentCode
    3179369
  • Title

    The Social Network

  • Author

    Xing, Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    8-10 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    4877
  • Lastpage
    4879
  • Abstract
    Facebook as the emerging internet industry representative, which takes improving the communication among people as a mission, now is practicing the new trend of the generalized virtual economy. Facebook´s success and rapid growth shows the tremendous economic prospects for the development of the generalized virtual economy. With the development of the internet, information as the communication link, transfers the generalized virtual economy to everyone. The development of the internet supplies a good field for studying generalized virtual economy. Generalized virtual economy supplies a strong theory for improving the development of the internet industry as well.
  • Keywords
    social networking (online); socio-economic effects; Facebook; Internet industry; economic prospects; generalized virtual economy; social network; Economics; Facebook; Industries; Internet; Presses; Publishing; generalized virtual economy; human-based economy; six degrees of separation; social network;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Electronic Commerce (AIMSEC), 2011 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Deng Leng
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0535-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AIMSEC.2011.6010876
  • Filename
    6010876