Power-law properties of human view and reply behavior in online society
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Power-law properties of human view and reply behavior in online society
zbMATH Open document ID: 1264.91098
DOI: 10.1155/2012/969087
author: Ye Wu
author: Qihui Ye
author: Lixiang Li
author: Jinghua Xiao
published in: Mathematical Problems in Engineering
publication date: 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: Statistical properties of the human comment behavior are studied using data from ``Tianya'' and ``Tieba'' which are very popular online social systems (or forums) in China. We find that both the reply number \(R\) and the view number \(V\) of a thread in a subforum obey the power-law distributions \(P(R) = R^\alpha\) and \(P(V) \propto V^\beta\), respectively, which indicates that there exists a kind of highly popular topics. These topics should be specially paid much attention, because they play an important role in the public opinion formation and the public opinion control. In addition, the relationship between \(R\) and \(V\) also obeys the power-law function \(R \propto V^\gamma\). Based on the human comment habit, a model is introduced to explain the human view and reply behaviors in the forum. Numerical simulations of the model fit well with the empirical results. Our findings are helpful for discovering collective patterns of human behaviors and the evolution of public opinions on the virtual society as well as the real one.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91D10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62P25
zbMATH DE Number: 6173732
Wikidata QID: Q57631871
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/969087
OpenAlex ID: W1966288330
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6173732