Bowling Alone and Trust Decline in Social Network Sites (original) (raw)

2009 Eighth IEEE International …, 2009

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the community of a social network site, Advogato. The peculiar characteristics of Advogato is that users can explicitly express weighted trust relationships among themselves. We conduct a longitudinal analysis of the trust network over a time period of 4 years, exploring the community as it grew from a knit circle of 300 users to an society of almost 6500 individuals. We report the changes over time of standard indexes in social network analysis such as clustering and degrees of separation. We then ...

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