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多重性是时间性的:社会时间对网络结构的影响

Multiplexity is temporal: effects of social times on network structure

Javier Ureña-Carrion, Sara Heydari, Talayeh Aledavood, Jari Saramäki, Mikko Kivelä

AI总结:

本文提出从大规模通信元数据中推断社会时间并构建多层网络的方法,揭示联系的时间多重性,验证社会焦点理论,并发现单层联系对全局连通性的关键作用。

摘要:

利用联系元数据构建的大规模社会网络一直是理解和检验全社会社会结构理论的重要工具。然而,解释不同社会情境的多重关系一直超出该方法的能力范围,限制了我们理解社会系统这一关键方面的能力。我们提出一种方法,从大规模联系元数据的每周活动中推断潜在的社会时间,并重建多层网络,其中各层对应于社会时间。然后,我们分析了一个由数百万个体组成的全社会通信网络中联系的时间多重性。这使我们能够在全社会网络中检验Feld的社会焦点理论的命题:我们表明,无论联系强度如何,联系都偏好其自身的社会时间,这表明它们反映了潜在的社会焦点。我们给出了一个关于单层联系强度的结果,该结果表明单层联系具有桥接作用,并且对全局网络连通性甚至比弱联系、低接触联系更为重要。最后,我们表明社会时间具有传递性,即当自我(egos)对一小部分他人(alters)使用某个社会时间时,这些他人之间也会使用该社会时间。我们的框架开辟了一条将大规模通信作为多重网络进行分析的途径,并揭示了多重连通性的社会层面模式。

英文摘要:

Large-scale social networks constructed using contact metadata have been invaluable tools for understanding and testing social theories of society-wide social structures. However, multiplex relationships explaining different social contexts have been out of reach of this methodology, limiting our ability to understand this crucial aspect of social systems. We propose a method that infers latent social times from the weekly activity of large-scale contact metadata, and reconstruct multilayer networks where layers correspond to social times. We then analyze the temporal multiplexity of ties in a society-wide communication network of millions of individuals. This allows us to test the propositions of Feld's social focus theory across a society-wide network: We show that ties favour their own social times regardless of contact intensity, suggesting they reflect underlying social foci. We present a result on strength of monoplex ties, which indicates that monoplex ties are bridging and even more important for global network connectivity than the weak, low-contact ties. Finally, we show that social times are transitive, so that when egos use a social time for a small subset of alters, the alters use the social time among themselves as well. Our framework opens up a way to analyse large-scale communication as multiplex networks and uncovers society-level patterns of multiplex connectivity.

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