Synonyms
Glossary
- Clustering:
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The process of partitioning networks into substructures or groups of dense or similar nodes
- Semantic network:
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Structured representations of knowledge that are used for reasoning and inference (Sowa 1992)
- Social network:
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Consists of nodes representing social agents and links representing connections between social agents
Definition
Network representations of online interactions between social agents, such as individuals, groups, and organizations, can be combined with, enhanced with, or built based upon the content of information and communication shared by network participants.
Introduction
Social media platforms and social networking sites have been developing rapidly and are being adopted widely (Van Dijck 2013). These systems allow people to interact, e.g., to socialize or collaborate with each other, to broadcast user generated content, and to share professionally generated content, among other...
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Diesner, J., Chin, CL., Smith, M.A. (2018). Combining Online Social Networks with Text Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_328
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