Several interdisciplinary studies are emerging in different disciplines, in an attempt to address human behavior inference; its impact in clusters and dynamics of social structures. Can you provide references related with Internet design and social interaction aspects? Whirch metrics (roots in social sciences) are being considered?
Article Moving Towards a Socially-Driven Internet Architectural Design
Chapter Trust as a Fairness Parameter for Quality of Experience in W...
suggest you look at the anthology 'Throughout' Ed Ulrik Ekman, MIT press (2013?(
This link might be helpful, though you've probably already seen this. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239279150_Bowling_Alone_but_Online_Together_Social_Capital_in_E-Communities
Article Bowling Alone but Online Together: Social Capital in E-Communities
Social Network Theory. Social Network Analysis can give useful metrics about social relations on online or offline communities, as well insight in power and prestige of actors and social capital levels of the community. I hope it could be helpful.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/davidlazer/files/papers/Lazer_Katz_Small_Group.pdf
Dear Rute,
I agree with Dr. Costa that social network theory is important. I do not know how mathematical you are. The term "metrics" has clear mathematical sense and suggest some distances between objects for quantitative analysis.
But what are your objects? In economics, agents interact only via market. However, it was discovered that the market for art has complex structure with high role of social network that influences individual decision.
I know two literature trends. The first is about social dynamics; a good book is: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-dynamics
The second is about mathematical theory of networks. Here I can mention such authors as Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Duncan Watts.
You topic clearly suggests two topologies: social interaction of an agent and internet connections. One cannot draw all complexity in real mathematical graph. So its statistical properties should be studied. Some physicists know how to do that but they do not know social problem that you need to formulate, better in mathematical form.
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