Personality Homophily and Geographic Distance in Facebook

Noë, Nyala; Whitaker, Roger M.; Allen, Stuart M.

doi:10.1089/cyber.2017.0615

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“…This fact, according to authors such as Scatà and collaborators [44] can prove that said tendency plays a double role in contraction, with this being reinforcing or delaying the noxious ideas that can lead to unhealthy behaviours such as suicide. In addition, these values are justified because the majority of the students belong to different geographic areas [45]. …”

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confidence: 99%

Social Network Analysis and Resilience in University Students: An Approach from Cohesiveness

Liébana‐Presa

Díaz

Reguera-García

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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The Social Network Analysis offers a view of social phenomena based on interactions. The aim of this study is to compare social reality through the cohesion variable and analyse its relationship with the resilience of university students. This information is useful to work with the students academically and to optimise the properties of the network that have an influence in academic performance. This is a descriptive transversal study with 90 students from the first and third year of the Nursing Degree. Cohesion variables from the support and friendship networks and the level of resilience were gathered. The UCINET programme was used for network analysis and the SPSS programme for statistical analysis. The students’ friendship and support networks show high intra-classroom cohesion although there are no differences between the support networks and friendship or minimal contact networks in both of the courses used for the study. The network cohesion indicators show less cohesion in the third year. No correlations were found between cohesion and resilience. Resilience does not appear to be an attribute related to cohesion or vice versa.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Network Analysis and Resilience in University Students: An Approach from Cohesiveness

Liébana‐Presa

Díaz

Reguera-García

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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“…This is governed by the overall similarity of A and B, which can be expressed as the proportion of features where A and B hold the same trait, denoted p. Then A chooses a dissimilar feature to copy from B with probability p. An example is shown in Figure 1. Thus when two neighbouring agents have more features in common, they are more likely to copy an additional trait from each other, thereby reinforcing the role that homophily [10], [11], [12] plays in attracting those that are similar and supporting their assimilation.…”

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The Impact of Peer Pressure: Extending Axelrod's Model on Cultural Polarisation

Morris

Turner

Whitaker

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)

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Culture represents the broad range of things over which people influence each other, and frequently contributes to the behaviour, interaction and outlook of groups. Although it has been studied in the context of humans, it is also relevant to future intelligent cognitive systems, that could have the capability to update their disposition and strategy based on the influence of others.In this work we transfer concepts from social sciences to the computing sciences and examine the effect of peer influence on culture. We consider the notion of "peer pressure", being the combined effect from all an individual's neighbours exerting influence at the same time, and also through influence flowing from indirect sources. This approach is derived using Social Impact Theory. We benchmark this against the cultural polarisation model from Axelrod, which involves influence being restricted to dyadic interactions between agents.We find that peer pressure provides complex contagion with a significant impact on cultural evolution. Greater cultural diversity is maintained, with indirect paths mitigating this by effectively forming disruptive weak links. This reaffirms that maintaining diversity in social ties, as well as a wide breadth, supports the mitigation of cultural isolation and polarisation. The model provides a platform to explore culture in a wide range of further scenarios, including electronic, coalition and organisational contexts.

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“…I had a particular interest in the referenced study since it simultaneously compared users’ friendships in both offline and Facebook contexts. Meanwhile, other studies focus on either offline friendship only (e.g., Campigotto et al, 2021; Joyner & Kao, 2000; Smith et al, 2014) or Facebook friendship only (e.g., Barnett & Benefield, 2017; Korkmaz et al, 2020; Noë et al, 2018).…”

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How Does Facebook Retain Segregated Friendship? An Agent-Based Model Approach

Firmansyah

2023

Social Science Computer Review

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Facebook, the largest social networking site in the world, has overcome the structural barriers that historically constrain individuals to reach out to different others. Through the platform, people from all walks of life and virtually any location can develop diverse friendships online. However, friendships on Facebook have been as segregated as friendships in real life. This research sought to understand why the leading social networking site intended to “bring the world closer together” retains segregated friendship. In doing so, I employed a series of agent-based simulations based on the Framework for Intergroup Relations and Multiple Affiliations Networks (FIRMAN). As demonstrated, Facebook has primarily enhanced users’ capacity to maintain a larger number of friendships (tie capacity), but it has done little to empower users’ ability to accept diversity and befriend different others (tie outreachability). Facebook must focus on the latter should they truly wish to contribute to the development of a more inclusive society. While in this study I focus on ethnically segregated friendship on Facebook, I argue that the same explanation might also hold for racially and ideologically segregated friendships on other bidirectional social networking sites.

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Personality Homophily and Geographic Distance in Facebook

Cited by 8 publications

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Social Network Analysis and Resilience in University Students: An Approach from Cohesiveness

Social Network Analysis and Resilience in University Students: An Approach from Cohesiveness

The Impact of Peer Pressure: Extending Axelrod's Model on Cultural Polarisation

How Does Facebook Retain Segregated Friendship? An Agent-Based Model Approach

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