Is a friend a friend?: investigating the structure of friendship networks in virtual worlds.
Brooke Foucault WellesAnne Van DevenderNoshir S. ContractorPublished in: CHI Extended Abstracts (2010)
Keyphrases
- social networks
- virtual world
- online social networks
- network structure
- social network analysis
- social networking
- virtual environment
- virtual communities
- cohesive subgroups
- power law
- network analysis
- social relationships
- social ties
- social interaction
- complex networks
- social media
- social context
- mixed reality
- multi user
- community detection
- virtual reality
- physical world
- preferential attachment
- heterogeneous networks
- small world
- link prediction
- social network data
- social graph
- network properties
- social behavior
- network evolution
- user interface
- link formation
- learning environment