Highest degree nodes in Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as Twitter can be viewed as “social elites” or “connectivity hubs” as they are followed by many users and therefore can influence them. All these elites along with their pairwise connections form a structure that is known as the elite network. The elite network serves as the backbone of the OSN structure and thus its characteristics off...

This ar ticle reports original research conducted among animal rights activists and elites in Switzerland and the United States, and the Žnding that activism functioned in activists’ and elites’ lives like religious belief. The study used reference sampling to select Swiss and American informants.Various articles and activists have identiŽed both latent and manifest quasi-religious components i...

Political elite’s relations for maintaining power is an important key to analyse the government’s behaviour. This paper presents a new network policy among the Iranian political elite using Social Network Analysis Method. How do they make the network? Is there Elite to Elite family relation based on ideological united or common interests? Network boundary is the political elites who have kinshi...