论文标题
Twitter上北美高等教育机构的复杂网络分析
Complex Network Analysis of North American Institutions of Higher Education on Twitter
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论文摘要
北美高等教育机构（IHES）：大学，4年和2年的大学以及贸易学校 - 在Twitter上大量存在并遵循。一个Twitter帐户平均有20,000个订户。他们中的许多人都遵循不止一个，因此可以根据共同追踪器的数量来构建一个IHE网络。在本文中，我们在Twitter上探讨了1,435 Ihhes网络的结构。我们发现了网络属性之间的显着相关性：各种核心和聚类系数 - 以及ihes的属性，例如入学，学费以及宗教/种族/种族/性别隶属关系。我们发现了与同质性相关的网络的社区结构，以使类似的追随者跟随类似的大学。此外，我们分析了追随者的自我描述，并确定了十二个重叠的主题，这些主题可以追溯到追随者的群体身份。
North American institutions of higher education (IHEs): universities, 4- and 2-year colleges, and trade schools -- are heavily present and followed on Twitter. An IHE Twitter account, on average, has 20,000 subscribers. Many of them follow more than one IHE, making it possible to construct an IHE network, based on the number of co-followers. In this paper, we explore the structure of a network of 1,435 IHEs on Twitter. We discovered significant correlations between the network attributes: various centralities and clustering coefficients -- and IHEs' attributes, such as enrollment, tuition, and religious/racial/gender affiliations. We uncovered the community structure of the network linked to homophily -- such that similar followers follow similar colleges. Additionally, we analyzed the followers' self-descriptions and identified twelve overlapping topics that can be traced to the followers' group identities.
