Time development in the early history of social networks: link stabilization, group dynamics, and segregation.

ABSTRACT: Studies of the time development of empirical networks usually investigate late stages where lasting connections have already stabilized. Empirical data on early network history are rare but needed for a better understanding of how social network topology develops in real life. Studying students who are beginning their studies at a university with no or few prior connections to each other offers a unique opportunity to investigate the formation and early development of link patterns and community structure in social networks. During a nine week introductory physics course, first year physics students were asked to identify those with whom they communicated about problem solving in physics during the preceding week. We use these students' self reports to produce time dependent student intera

SUBMITTER: Bruun J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4234624 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature