Reviving dormant ties in an online social network experiment

• Main Authors: LIM, Ee Peng, CORREA, Denzil, LO, David, FINEGOLD, Michael, ZHU, Feida
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Dormant tie; Online user experiment; Online social network; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1821; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2820/viewcontent/Reviving_Dormant_Ties_in_an_Online_Social_Network_Experiment_Finegold_1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Social network users connect and interact with one another to fulfil different kinds of social and information needs. When interaction ceases between two users, we say that their tie becomes dormant. While there are different underlying reasons of dormant ties, it is important to find means to reviv...