TY - GEN
T1 - Link creation and profile alignment in the aNobii social network
AU - Aiello, Luca Maria
AU - Barrat, Alain
AU - Cattuto, Ciro
AU - Ruffo, Giancarlo
AU - Schifanella, Rossano
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The present work investigates the structural and dynamical properties of aNobii1, a social bookmarking system designed for readers and book lovers. Users of aNobii provide information about their library, reading interests and geographical location, and they can establish typed social links to other users. Here, we perform an in-depth analysis of the system's social network and its interplay with users' profiles. We describe the relation of geographic and interest-based factors to social linking. Furthermore, we perform a longitudinal analysis to investigate the interplay of profile similarity and link creation in the social network, with a focus on triangle closure. We report a reciprocal causal connection: profile similarity of users drives the subsequent closure in the social network and, reciprocally, closure in the social network induces subsequent profile alignment. Access to the dynamics of the social network also allows us to measure quantitative indicators of preferential linking.
AB - The present work investigates the structural and dynamical properties of aNobii1, a social bookmarking system designed for readers and book lovers. Users of aNobii provide information about their library, reading interests and geographical location, and they can establish typed social links to other users. Here, we perform an in-depth analysis of the system's social network and its interplay with users' profiles. We describe the relation of geographic and interest-based factors to social linking. Furthermore, we perform a longitudinal analysis to investigate the interplay of profile similarity and link creation in the social network, with a focus on triangle closure. We report a reciprocal causal connection: profile similarity of users drives the subsequent closure in the social network and, reciprocally, closure in the social network induces subsequent profile alignment. Access to the dynamics of the social network also allows us to measure quantitative indicators of preferential linking.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78649299846
U2 - 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.42
DO - 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.42
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649299846
SN - 9780769542119
T3 - Proceedings - SocialCom 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust
SP - 249
EP - 256
BT - Proceedings - SocialCom 2010
T2 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2010, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, PASSAT 2010
Y2 - 20 August 2010 through 22 August 2010
ER -