Rumor diffusion in an interests-based dynamic social network

ScientificWorldJournal. 2013 Dec 21:2013:824505. doi: 10.1155/2013/824505. eCollection 2013.

Abstract

To research rumor diffusion in social friend network, based on interests, a dynamic friend network is proposed, which has the characteristics of clustering and community, and a diffusion model is also proposed. With this friend network and rumor diffusion model, based on the zombie-city model, some simulation experiments to analyze the characteristics of rumor diffusion in social friend networks have been conducted. The results show some interesting observations: (1) positive information may evolve to become a rumor through the diffusion process that people may modify the information by word of mouth; (2) with the same average degree, a random social network has a smaller clustering coefficient and is more beneficial for rumor diffusion than the dynamic friend network; (3) a rumor is spread more widely in a social network with a smaller global clustering coefficient than in a social network with a larger global clustering coefficient; and (4) a network with a smaller clustering coefficient has a larger efficiency.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Communication*
  • Computer Simulation*
  • Friends
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking*
  • Verbal Behavior