Community-based measures for social capital

Christopher T Spratt, Jun Hong, Kevin McAreavey, Weiru Liu

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    Abstract

    Social capital is the value that can be derived from connections between individuals in a social network. The most common forms are bonding and bridging social capital, resulting from connections with similar and diverse groups of individuals respectively. In this paper we propose a novel community-based model for measuring bonding and bridging social capital in a social network. Some previous measures of bonding and bridging capital depend on node attributes, which are often difficult to obtain. Other measures overcome this limitation by relying purely on network structure but are limited to direct connections only for bonding capital and indirect connections only for bridging capital. Our structural measures for bonding and bridging capital are independent of attributes and account for both direct and indirect connections. We experimentally validate our measures on a collaboration network extracted from DBLP, and our results show a strong correlation with standard measures of academic success.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationComplex Networks and Their Applications VII
    Subtitle of host publicationVolume 2 Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018
    EditorsLuca Maria Aiello, Hocine Cherifi, Pietro Lió, Luis M. Rocha, Chantal Cherifi, Renaud Lambiotte
    PublisherSpringer, Cham
    Pages327-338
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Electronic)9783030054144
    ISBN (Print)9783030054137
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Dec 2018
    Event7th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
    Duration: 11 Dec 201813 Dec 2018

    Publication series

    NameStudies in Computational Intelligence
    Volume813
    ISSN (Print)1860-949X

    Conference

    Conference7th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityCambridge
    Period11/12/1813/12/18

    Keywords

    • Community detection
    • Social capital
    • Social network analysis

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