The role of different tie strength in disseminating different topics on a microblog

• Main Authors: NATALI, Felicia, CARLEY, Kathleen M., ZHU, Feida, HUANG, Binxuan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3927; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4929/viewcontent/p203_Natali__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The study of information flow typically does not distinguish the choices of tie strength on which the information flows. All receivers of the information are assumed to have the same potential to pass on the information. Modifying the SEIZ (susceptible, exposed, infected, skeptic) model, we discover...