Emergence of Power Laws in Online Communities: The Role of Social Mechanisms and Preferential Attachment.
Steven L. JohnsonSamer FarajSrinivas KudaravalliPublished in: MIS Q. (2014)
Keyphrases
- online communities
- power laws
- preferential attachment
- online social networks
- power law distribution
- social influence
- social networks
- social networking
- social media
- network evolution
- content analysis
- small world
- collective intelligence
- average degree
- power law
- degree distribution
- social relationships
- scale free
- real world graphs
- clustering coefficient
- social web
- social networking sites
- structural properties
- data analysis