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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…
Structural invariants in individuals language use: the "ego network" of words
Kilian Ollivier, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
The cognitive constraints that humans exhibit in their social interactions have been extensively studied by anthropologists, who have highlighted their regularities across differen…
The academic wanderer: structure of collaboration network and relation with research performance
Pavlos Paraskevopoulos, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
Thanks to the widespread availability of large-scale datasets on scholarly outputs, science itself has come under the microscope with the aim of capturing a quantitative understand…
Twitter and the Press: an Ego-Centred Analysis
Chiara Boldrini, Mustafa Toprak, Marco Conti +1
Ego networks have proved to be a valuable tool for understanding the relationships that individuals establish with their peers, both in offline and online social networks. Particul…