Digital Ecology: Coexistence and Domination among Interacting Networks.

ABSTRACT: The overwhelming success of Web 2.0, within which online social networks are key actors, has induced a paradigm shift in the nature of human interactions. The user-driven character of Web 2.0 services has allowed researchers to quantify large-scale social patterns for the first time. However, the mechanisms that determine the fate of networks at the system level are still poorly understood. For instance, the simultaneous existence of multiple digital services naturally raises questions concerning which conditions these services can coexist under. Analogously to the case of population dynamics, the digital world forms a complex ecosystem of interacting networks. The fitness of each network depends on its capacity to attract and maintain users' attention, which constitutes a limited resource

SUBMITTER: Kleineberg KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4437301 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature