Social and semantic coevolution in knowledge networks. Roth, C. & Cointet, J. Social Networks, 32(1):16--29, January, 2010.
Social and semantic coevolution in knowledge networks [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Socio-semantic networks involve agents creating and processing information: communities of scientists, software developers, wiki contributors and webloggers are, among others, examples of such knowledge networks. We aim at demonstrating that the dynamics of these communities can be adequately described as the coevolution of a social and a socio-semantic network. More precisely, we will first introduce a theoretical framework based on a social network and a socio-semantic network, i.e. an epistemic network featuring agents, concepts and links between agents and between agents and concepts. Adopting a relevant empirical protocol, we will then describe the joint dynamics of social and socio-semantic structures, at both macroscopic and microscopic scales, emphasizing the remarkable stability of these macroscopic properties in spite of a vivid local, agent-based network dynamics.
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	title = {Social and semantic coevolution in knowledge networks},
	volume = {32},
	issn = {0378-8733},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/science/article/B6VD1-4XC3X6K-1/2/767fdfac10e60939c46cf006a509e225},
	doi = {10.1016/j.socnet.2009.04.005},
	abstract = {Socio-semantic networks involve agents creating and processing information: communities of scientists, software developers, wiki contributors and webloggers are, among others, examples of such knowledge networks. We aim at demonstrating that the dynamics of these communities can be adequately described as the coevolution of a social and a socio-semantic network. More precisely, we will first introduce a theoretical framework based on a social network and a socio-semantic network, i.e. an epistemic network featuring agents, concepts and links between agents and between agents and concepts. Adopting a relevant empirical protocol, we will then describe the joint dynamics of social and socio-semantic structures, at both macroscopic and microscopic scales, emphasizing the remarkable stability of these macroscopic properties in spite of a vivid local, agent-based network dynamics.},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2010-01-16},
	journal = {Social Networks},
	author = {Roth, Camille and Cointet, Jean-Philippe},
	month = jan,
	year = {2010},
	keywords = {Bicliques, Blogs, Cohesiveness, Dynamics, Epistemic communities, Galois lattices, Hierarchies, Knowledge networks, Scientific networks, Socio-semantic networks},
	pages = {16--29},
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