{"id":378,"date":"2011-10-03T07:33:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.dds.nl\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-10-03T07:33:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:33:31","slug":"new-working-paper-online-online-social-networks-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/new-working-paper-online-online-social-networks-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"New working paper online: Online Social Networks in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I just uploaded a <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1935817\">new working paper on SSRN<\/a>, titled &#8220;Composition and Structure of a Large Online Social Network in the Netherlands.&#8221; The paper describes an exploratory analysis of a unique dataset provided by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyves.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyves<\/a>, <\/em>the largest online social network in the Netherlands, with currently over 11 million members. Here&#8217;s the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Limitations  in  data collection haven long been an obstacle in research on  friendship  networks. Most earlier studies use either a sample of  ego-networks, or  complete network data on a relatively small group  (e.g., a single  organization). The rise of online social networking  services such as  Friendster and Facebook, however, provides researchers  with  opportunities to study friendship networks on a much larger scale.  In  this study, we use complete network data from a popular online social   networking service in the Netherlands, Hyves, comprising over eight   million members and over 400 million online friendship relations. In the   first study of its kind for the Netherlands, we examine the structure   of this network in terms of the degree distribution, characteristic  path  length, clustering, and degree assortativity. First results  indicate  that this network shares features of other large complex  networks, but  also deviates in other respects. In addition, a  comparison with other  online social networks shows that these networks  show remarkable  similarities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Download the PDF from <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1935817\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just uploaded a new working paper on SSRN, titled &#8220;Composition and Structure of a Large Online Social Network in the Netherlands.&#8221; The paper describes an exploratory analysis of a unique dataset&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}