Structural Stability of the Russian Sociologists’ Online Community: 2011—2018
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https://doi.org/10.14515/monitoring.2024.1.2327Keywords:
online community, structure of professional community, Russian sociologists, stability evaluation, social network analysis, blockmodeling approachAbstract
This study deals with the stability evaluation of the community structure of Russian sociologists’ online group. Based on the data from the online community, which consisted of seven years of communication from 2011 to 2018, we constructed networks based on commenting and reacting. The participants’ activities included four main periods for evaluating the stability of the community. Blockmodeling reveals the structural patterns of community interactions. The results show the “core-periphery” type of the global structure. The core and periphery are structured differently in networks of comments and reactions. The stability between the positions in the global structure is high, and while the structure may vary in some periods, the sizes of the core and periphery fluctuate. However, the stability within the positions of the global structure is low, according to the modified Rand index.
Acknowledgments. The article was prepared within the framework of the HSE University Basic Research Program.
We would like to express our special gratitude to our colleagues, Prof. Anuška Ferligoj, Prof. Vladimir Batagelj, Dr. Stanislav Moiseev and other colleagues from the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research for their advice and comments. This work is prepared within the framework of the HSE University Basic Research Program. We appreciate the help of Academic Writing Center of HSE University with the proofreading of the article.
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