Survey of Emotion Influence in Image Social Networks

Abstract

Abstract-Psychological theories propose that emotion represents the status of mind and natural responses of one's cognitive system. Emotions are a difficult state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that power our actions. In this paper, we study an interesting problem of emotion infection in social networks. In this paper, we study a different interesting problem of emotion influence in social networks. In particular, by employing an image social network as the basis of our study, we try to unveil how users' emotional statuses influence each other and how users' positions in the social network affect their influential strength on emotion in different papers. We also find out several interesting phenomena. For example, the possibility that a user feels happy is about linear to the number of friends who are also happy; but taking a nearer look, the pleasure chance is super linear to the number of happy friends who act as opinion leaders in the network and sub linear in the number of happy friends who span structural holes. This offers a new chance to understand the basic mechanism of emotional contagion in online social networks. Keywords-Emotion influence, image, social networks I. INTRODUCTIONWith the rapid development of online social networks such as Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, and Flicker, it becomes easier for people to connect with each other and share life understanding by posting messages online. In the interim, statistics show that 10% of the tweets on Twitter enclose an emotion icon. Thus an interesting question here is: will one's emotional status influence others around them? For instance, when you feel happy, will the happiness spread through your social network?Emotion influence is a development in which a person or group influences the emotions or performance of another person or group, which was previously studied by psychologists through interviews with small groups of applicants. For example, Fowler and Christakis presented the theory of three degree of authority. They find that when one feels happy, her/his friends will have a higher possibility than option to become happy. Existing research on Facebook also has established that emotion influence does happen via text-based computer-mediated communication.Comparing with text, image is a additional subjective and uncertain media for people to communicate. in addition textbased communications, will emotion influence happen in image social networks?Furthermore, researchers find that users occupying different positions in the social network participate very different roles when distribution information. For example, 1% of users acting as opinion leaders, who are taking essential positions within communities, post 50% of URLs on Twitter. In the meantime, 1% of users allocation the role of structural whole spanners, who are bridges between otherwise detached communities in a network, control 25% of information distribution. Comparing with propagating a piece of information, will these users have special patterns when propag...