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An Empirical Study of Virtual Social Networks
International Journal of Social Media and Online Communities, 2021Virtual social network is a kind of social network established through indirect interactions between individuals, especially through online interactions. Virtual social network has significant implications on business operations, governing, scientific research, and social relations. This paper describes several virtual social networks and studies their
Liguo Yu, Yingmei Li
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Virtual private social networks and a facebook implementation
ACM Transactions on the Web, 2013The popularity of Social Networking Sites (SNS) is growing rapidly, with the largest sites serving hundreds of millions of users and their private information. The privacy settings of these SNSs do not allow the user to avoid sharing some information (e.g., name and profile picture) with all the other users.
CONTI, MAURO +2 more
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Use and Participation in Virtual Social Networks
International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2010Managers are increasingly interested in the social web, as it provides numerous opportunities for strengthening and expanding relationships with customers, but the network processes that lead to these user-based assets are poorly understood. In this paper, the authors explore factors influencing use and participation in virtual social networks.
Pagani, Margherita, Hofacker, Charles F.
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Social Impact of Virtual Networking
2006Information has been defined as a set of data, facts, and figures that have been processed in such a way that they become meaningful. They make intelligence. When information is applied to doing something and is globally pertinent, it is said to have become knowledge.
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Social Networks and Virtual Communities
2012From prehistoric years, before even the formation of language, human beings tended to form communities in order to have more chances to survive in the primitive and hostile environment. Progressively the communities were expanded and developed by acquiring a more concrete structure with disperse roles and duties and were held together by family or ...
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Enhancing business networks using social network based virtual communities
Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2006PurposeTo enhance an entrepreneur's business network through the integration of the social network concepts and design principles of virtual communities.Design/methodology/approachThis study documents the design and initial deployment of a virtual community case, Innovation Information Infrastructure, based on social network concepts.FindingsBasic ...
Bih‐Ru Lea +3 more
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Community detection in social networks through similarity virtual networks
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2013Smart marketing models could utilize communities within the social Web to target advertisements. However, providing accurate community partitions in a reasonable time is challenging for current online large-scale social networks. In this paper, we propose an approach to enhance community detection in online social networks using node similarity ...
Kanna Alfalahi, Yacine Atif, Saad Harous
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Virtual Intimacy: Desire and Ideology in Virtual Social Networks
2009[Extract] There are few social phenomena in contemporary Western society whose magnitude can match the viral spread of virtual social networks (VSNs). Every minute of the day hundreds of new Myspace, Flickr, and Facebook accounts are set up throughout the world and users ready themselves to interact with the many millions already in operation.
Grassman, Rickard, Case, Peter
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Social Network Analysis of Virtual Worlds
2012As 3D environments become both more prevalent and more fragmented, studying how users are connected via their avatars and how they benefit from the virtual world community has become a significant area of research. An in depth analysis of the virtual world social networks is necessary to evaluate its worlds, to understand the impact of avatar social ...
Gregory Stafford +4 more
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Social Network Analysis for Virtual Communities
2008The social network analysis (SNA) method is a set of methods considered these days as a paradigm or a method that offers “the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, animals, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities.
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