Glossary
- Computer science (CS):
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Discipline based on a scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications
- Computational social science (CSS):
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New discipline based on interdisciplinary investigation of the social universe on many scales, ranging from individual actors to the largest groupings, through the medium of computation (Cioffi-Revilla 2014)
- Dunbar number:
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Value of the cognitive limit to the number of people with whom a person can maintain stable social relationships (≈150)
- Echo chamber:
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“Enclosed” system in which information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by internal transmission and repetition
- Ego network:
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Focal node (“ego”) and the nodes to which the ego is directly connected (friends or alters) plus the ties, if any, among the alters
- Group or community:
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Coletto, M., Lucchese, C. (2018). Social–Spatiotemporal Analysis of Topical and Polarized Communities in Online Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110182
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