Effect of direct reciprocity and network structure on continuing prosperity of social networking services

Abstract Background Social networking services (SNSs) are widely used as communicative tools for a variety of purposes. SNSs rely on the users’ individual activities associated with some cost and effort, and thus it is not known why users voluntarily continue to participate in SNSs. Because the stru...

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Main Authors: Kengo Osaka, Fujio Toriumi, Toshihauru Sugawara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-05-01
Series:Computational Social Networks
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40649-017-0038-2