Human behavior in online social systems Export

@article{citeulike:4744170, abstract = {Abstract\ \ We present and study data concerning human behavior in four online social systems: (i) an Internet community of friends of over 107 people, (ii) a music community website with over 106 users, (iii) a gamers' community server with over 5 × 106 users and (iv) a booklovers' website with over 2.5 × 105 users. The purpose of those systems is different; however, their properties are very similar. We have found that the distribution of human activity (e.g., the sum of books read or songs played) has the form of a power law. Moreover, the relationship between human activity and time has a power-law form, too. We present a simple interest-driven model of the evolution of such systems which explains the emergence of two scaling regimes.}, author = {Grabowski, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {4744170}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2009-00185-4}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/9347}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/c048764q4357j321}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1140/epjb/e2009-00185-4}, issn = {1434-6028}, journal = {The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems}, keywords = {activities, behaviors, online-social-networks, online-social-systems}, month = {June}, number = {4}, pages = {605--611}, posted-at = {2009-07-22 12:24:26}, priority = {2}, title = {Human behavior in online social systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2009-00185-4}, volume = {69}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4744170 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4744170 N2 - Abstract  We present and study data concerning human behavior in four online social systems: (i) an Internet community of friends of over 107 people, (ii) a music community website with over 106 users, (iii) a gamers’ community server with over 5 × 106 users and (iv) a booklovers’ website with over 2.5 × 105 users. The purpose of those systems is different; however, their properties are very similar. We have found that the distribution of human activity (e.g., the sum of books read or songs played) has the form of a power law. Moreover, the relationship between human activity and time has a power-law form, too. We present a simple interest-driven model of the evolution of such systems which explains the emergence of two scaling regimes. IS - 4 JF - The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems SN - 1434-6028 EP - 611 TI - Human behavior in online social systems VL - 69 SP - 605 KW - activities KW - behaviors KW - online-social-networks KW - online-social-systems AU - Grabowski, A PY - 2009/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2009-00185-4 ER -