Elite Size and Resilience Impact on Global System Structuration in Social Media

Authors

Sorin Matei, Purdue UniversityFollow
wutao Tan, Purdue University
Michael Zhu, Purdue University
Chuanhai Liu, PurdueFollow
Elisa Bertino, Purdue UniversityFollow
Jeremy Foote, Purdue UniversityFollow

Abstract

The paper examines the role played by the most productive members of social media systems on leading the project and influencing the degree of project structuration. The paper focuses on findings of a large computational social science project that examines Wikipedia.¹

Keywords

role; division of labor; equality; entropy; Wikipedia

Date of this Version

5-2014

DOI

10.1109/CTS.2014.6867535