Study on Influence of Community Structure on Opinion Topic Propagation of Micro-blog

Authors

Hengmin Zhu, 1. College of Management, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China;;
Hu Wei, 1. College of Management, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China;;
Ma Jing, 2. College of Economics＆Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;
Wei Jing, 1. College of Management, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China;;

Abstract

Abstract: Micro-blog gathers a large number of users, and community structure is a typical feature of Micro-blog network. In order to explore the influence of community structure on the opinion topic propagation of Micro-blog, users' psychology was analyzed for selecting their followees, and a model for constructing Micro-blog network was proposed which could modify community structure of network with a community factor. Experiments testify the effect of the community factor on micro-blog network structure, and use a SIR model to analyze the influence of different topic source nodes and community factors on the topic propagation of simulated networks. The result shows that community structure has a negative effect on the topic propagation compared with the effect of celebrities in the Micro-blog. An example data from twitter testifies some conclusions.

Recommended Citation

Zhu, Hengmin; Wei, Hu; Jing, Ma; and Jing, Wei (2020) "Study on Influence of Community Structure on Opinion Topic Propagation of Micro-blog," Journal of System Simulation: Vol. 28: Iss. 7, Article 4.
Available at: https://dc-china-simulation.researchcommons.org/journal/vol28/iss7/4

First Page

1506

Revised Date

2015-10-09

DOI Link

https://doi.org/

Last Page

1514

CLC

TP391.9

Recommended Citation

Zhu Hengmin, Hu Wei, Ma Jing, Wei Jing. Study on Influence of Community Structure on Opinion Topic Propagation of Micro-blog[J]. Journal of System Simulation, 2016, 28(7): 1506-1514.