Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
| Dates: | 31 January 2018 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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Marco Bastos, University of London and Duke University’s Network Analysis Center
Exogenous Factors Affecting the Topology of Online Social Networks: Geographic Propinquity, Specialized Information, and Ideological Cliques
In this talk we explore exogenous mechanisms affecting the network topology of online social network Twitter. In the first part we present a case study of the Twitter agriculture social web showing that the network topology becomes increasingly more centralized when users share specialized information and that the network adopts decentralized formations as conversations become more generic. We conclude the talk discussing novel research on echo-chamber communication in the weeks leading up to the UK EU referendum that found echo-chambers to be associated with homophily in the physical world, chiefly the geographic proximity between users advocating sides of the referendum campaign.
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Samuel Alexander Building
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