A New Framework to Define Familiar Strangers in Online Social Networks: Spacio-temporal Challenges
Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks Workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Spatial Studies, 13-14 December 2010
Charles PEREZ, Babiga BIRREGAH, Marc LEMERCIER, Alain CORPEL, Patrick LACLEMENCE, and Eric CHATELET
“With the exponential growth of social networks of Internet the identity of an individual has become numerical and thus diffused in both time and space dimensions. We cannot ignore that online social network has become a new platform for people to communicate and interact with each other. In our study we propose to focus on the Familiar Stranger notion in order to adapt it to virtual communities such as online social networks and micro blogging platforms. Familiar Strangers are critical in the understanding of our society (as they can become friend easily) and interesting for a lot of improvement of our community. In this study we propose to adapt and improve the actual formalization of Familiar Stranger applied to Social Networks by injecting both time and spatial constraint. This framework opens on some applications such as identifying the set of Familiar Strangers (FS) of a given micro-blogger in twitter.”
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