The paper considers studying the perception and assessment of media content in the Russian-language social networks, analyzing the causes that affect the perception and distribution of network content. The importance of language learning and communication in Russian-language social networks, and problems of content effectiveness is determined by the growth in the number and activity of Runet us...

Introduction The Marine Biotechnology (MB) research area is gaining increasing relevance in Brazil. Its analysis is a challenge owing to the inherently multidisciplinary nature, and the study of research groups (RGs) may support this work. The task of analysing RGs is facilitated in Brazil, which has a national source gathering the country's RGs, maintained by the National Council for Scientifi...

for their valuable comments; however, all errors are my own. This is a work in progress; please do not cite or reference. Abstract: The existing literature on civic engagement in the United States has focused on face-to-face interactions as the key to acquiring both the desire and skills necessary to participate in civil society. However, few works have focused on the relationship between indiv...

Microblogging and social news web sites like Twitter are largely used as an important source of up-to-date information. Consequently, organizations and firms have interest in using those platforms to di↵use their own news and updates. The dynamics of information or rumor spread in online social networks depends mainly on network characteristics and is currently a critical topic in Social Networ...

This paper describes first experiments measuring organizational consciousness by comparing six “honest signals” of interpersonal communication within organizations with organizational metrics of performance.

On social network sites (SNS), information about one’s romantic partner is readily available and public for friends. The paper focuses on the negative (SNS jealousy) and positive (SNS relationship happiness) consequences of SNS use for romantic relationships. We examined whether relationship satisfaction, trait jealousy, SNS use and need for popularity predicted these emotional consequences of ...

Social network analysis investigates relationships between people and information created by people. The field is presently in flux due to the increasing amount of available data and the concomitant interest in networks across many disciplines. This article reviews some of the recent advances in the field, such as p* modeling and community detection algorithms alongside some of the societal tra...

In this paper, we study the social network structure of an online discussion board within SeniorNet, an empathic online community for older people. We apply Social Network Analysis (SNA) to analyse the communication patterns and relationships between members of the discussion board. In addition to looking at the structure of the exchanged messages within the discussion board as a whole, we also...