Achieving and maintaining important roles in social media |
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| Affiliation: | 1. AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Al. Mickiewicza 30, Kraków 30-059, Poland;2. AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Humanities, Al. Mickiewicza 30, Kraków 30-059, Poland;3. CNRS – LIG, 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire – CS 40700, Grenoble CX 9 Grenoble 38058, France;1. School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China;2. Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;1. Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain;2. ETS de Ingenieros Informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Spain;1. Key Laboratory of Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation, School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China;2. Department of Pain Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310018, China;3. Wuhan second ship design and research institute, Wuhan 430205, China;1. Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Spain;2. Faculty of Computer Sciences, Østfold University College Norway;3. Foundation for Biomedical Research, Príncipe de Asturias Hospital Spain;4. Computer Science Department, Universidad de Alcalá Spain |
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| Abstract: | A significant problem common for different domains of applications is an issue of obtaining and keeping an influential position in the respective social media society. In this paper a new approach is proposed based on the analysis of roles of users in groups identified within society. Three different dimensions of user behavior are considered as key elements of these roles: Their activity, influence and cooperativeness/competition. Taking into account measures describing these dimensions, a set of roles characterizing behaviors of users in groups is formulated. We propose an original set of roles with their justification in sociological models, develop an easy extendable model of a social system and conduct experiments to allow us to define patterns describing stability and variability of given roles as well as statistics of transitions in time between these considered roles. To define the roles, we took into account different features of user interactions, both quantitative and qualitative. We propose an integrated approach to the analysis of role changes in the context of group evolution. We consider behavior of users in groups with different sizes and differences between them. We also analyse the stability of individual roles players by users in groups and often occurring transitions between individual roles. The obtained results, interpreted also from the sociological point of view, allow the formulation of general recommendations on which behaviors of users could ensure achieving and maintaining influential roles in social media. The most frequent patterns of transitions between roles are identified and significant similarities between them for two considered blog portals are described. The approaches and methods of analysis presented in the paper may be applied to support decisions leading to obtaining and maintaining influential positions in social media, which may be useful for the promotion of goods and services, leading business or political campaigns. |
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