On the value of weak ties for modeling interventions in online health communities

Alexander Nikolaev; Scott McIntosh

doi:10.1145/2492517.2500306

On the value of weak ties for modeling interventions in online health communities

Alexander Nikolaev
, Scott McIntosh

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

University at Buffalo

University of Rochester

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Abstract

Online pro-health social networks have grown in the past decade. This position paper argues for the need of prescriptive research that would enable models of online interventions capable of assessing the effects imposed on social networks from the outside, e.g., by a strategic decision-maker (supervisor) possessing the full knowledge of the network dynamics. The paper explains the importance of explicit modeling of weak, acquaintance-type ties for this purpose.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1481-1482
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781450322409
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2492517.2500306
State	Published - 2013
Event	2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013 - Niagara Falls, ON, Canada Duration: Aug 25 2013 → Aug 28 2013

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Name	Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013

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Conference	2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Niagara Falls, ON
Period	08/25/13 → 08/28/13

Keywords

Intervention modeling
Online health behavior
Social network analysis

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Nikolaev, A., & McIntosh, S. (2013). On the value of weak ties for modeling interventions in online health communities. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013 (pp. 1481-1482). (Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2492517.2500306

Nikolaev, Alexander ; McIntosh, Scott. / On the value of weak ties for modeling interventions in online health communities. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013. Association for Computing Machinery, 2013. pp. 1481-1482 (Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013).

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Nikolaev, A & McIntosh, S 2013, On the value of weak ties for modeling interventions in online health communities. in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1481-1482, 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, 08/25/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2492517.2500306

On the value of weak ties for modeling interventions in online health communities. / Nikolaev, Alexander; McIntosh, Scott.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013. Association for Computing Machinery, 2013. p. 1481-1482 (Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Nikolaev A, McIntosh S. On the value of weak ties for modeling interventions in online health communities. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013. Association for Computing Machinery. 2013. p. 1481-1482. (Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013). doi: 10.1145/2492517.2500306

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