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Stability of the personal relationship networks in a longitudinal study of middle school students
Diego Escribano, Francisco J. Lapuente, José A. Cuesta +2
The personal network of relationships is structured in circles of friendships, that go from the most intense relationships to the least intense ones. While this is a well establish…
Structure of Ego-alter relationships of Politicians in Twitter
Valerio Arnaboldi, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti +1
We analyze the ego-alter Twitter networks of 300 Italian MPs and 18 European leaders, and of about 14,000 generic users. We find structural properties typical of social environment…
The Structure of Online Social Networks Mirror Those in the Offline World
R. I. M. Dunbar, Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti +1
We use data on frequencies of bi-directional posts to define edges (or relationships) in two Facebook datasets and a Twitter dataset and use these to create ego-centric social netw…
The Internet of People: A human and data-centric paradigm for the Next Generation Internet
Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella
The cyber-physical convergence, the fast expansion of the Internet at its edge, and tighter interactions between human users and their personal mobile devices push towards a data-c…
The Stability of Transient Relationships
Valentin Vergara Hidd, Eduardo Lopez, Simone Centellegher +3
In contrast to long-term relationships, far less is known about the temporal evolution of transient relationships, although these constitute a substantial fraction of people's comm…
Turnover in close friendships: age and gender differences
Chandreyee Roy, Kunal Bhattacharya, Robin I. M. Dunbar +1
Humans are social animals and the interpersonal bonds formed between them are crucial for their development and well being in a society. These relationships are usually structured…