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A prospective examination of online social network dynamics and smoking cessation. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2017
Introduction Use of online social networks for smoking cessation has been associated with abstinence. Little is known about the mechanisms through which the formation of social ties in an online network may influence smoking behavior.
Graham AL   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

How to network in online social networks [PDF]

open access: yes2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2014
In this paper, we consider how to maximize users' influence in Online Social Networks (OSNs) by exploiting social relationships only. Our first contribution is to extend to OSNs the model of Kempe et al. [1] on the propagation of information in a social network and to show that a greedy algorithm is a good approximation of the optimal algorithm that is
Neglia, Giovanni   +3 more
openaire   +11 more sources

Assembling thefacebook: Using Heterogeneity to Understand Online Social Network Assembly [PDF]

open access: yesWeb Science Conference, 2015
Online social networks represent a popular and diverse class of social media systems. Despite this variety, each of these systems undergoes a general process of online social network assembly, which represents the complicated and heterogeneous changes ...
Abigail Z. Jacobs   +3 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Online social networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Κατά την τελευταία δεκαετία, τα Διαδικτυακά Κοινωνικά Δίκτυα (ΔΚΔ) εξελίχθηκαν σε ένα νέο μέσο επικοινωνίας, κοινωνικής σύνδεσης και διαμοιρασμού πληροφορίας. Η έρευνα μας έχει ως στόχο, να μελετήσει την δομή, ιδιότητες, διάχυση πληροφορίας, προκαταλήψεις και χαρακτηριστικά αυτών των δικτύων.
openaire   +2 more sources

Online Social Networks and Trust [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Indicators Research, 2018
We use Italian data from the Multipurpose Household Survey to explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We account for measures of trust in strangers (often referred to as social trust), trust in neighbours (particularized trust) and ...
Sabatini, Fabio, Sarracino, Francesco
openaire   +5 more sources

The Relationship Between Use of Social Network Sites, Online Social Support, and Well-Being

open access: yesJ. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl., 2017
Existing work on the effects of social network sites (SNS) on well-being has often stressed that SNS can help people gain social support from their online networks, which positively affects their well-being.
S. Utz, Johannes Breuer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

BCOSN: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Online Social Network

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019
Online social networks (OSNs) are becoming more and more prevalent in people’s life, but they face the problem of privacy leakage due to the centralized data management mechanism.
Le Jiang, Xinglin Zhang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bistability in Online Social Networks [PDF]

open access: yes2010 INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, 2010
Online social networking is an increasingly prominent social phenomenon that has motivated much interesting research in networking. This work studies the dynamic evolvement of online social networks by a simple stochastic model that captures the inter-dependent social interactions.
Li, VOK, Chau, CK, Xu, K
openaire   +2 more sources

Follow the "Mastodon": Structure and Evolution of a Decentralized Online Social Network

open access: yesInternational Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018
In this paper we present a dataset containing both the network of the "follow" relationships and its growth in terms of new connections and users, all which we obtained by mining the decentralized online social network named Mastodon.
Matteo Zignani, S. Gaito, G. P. Rossi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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