Synchronization of Online Social Rhythms via Avatar Communications
Masanori Takano

TL;DR
This paper models online social communication rhythms as coupled oscillators, revealing how social connections influence rhythm synchronization and long-range correlations within social networks.
Contribution
It introduces a novel oscillator-based framework to analyze online social rhythm entrainment and demonstrates the emergence of long-range correlations in social networks.
Findings
Entrainment occurs when connection strength exceeds a threshold.
Entrainment spreads through densely-connected clusters.
Long-range correlations extend to about 36% of the network.
Abstract
In this study, we consider users' online communication rhythms (online social rhythms) as coupled oscillators in a complex social network. Users' rhythms may be entrained onto those of their friends, and macro-scale pattern of such rhythms can emerge. We investigated the entrainment in online social rhythms and long-range correlations of the rhythms using an avatar communication dataset. We indicated entrainment in online social rhythms to emerge if the strength of a new connection reaches a threshold. This entrainment spread via densely-connected clusters. Consequently, long-range correlations of online social rhythms extended to about 36% of the network, although offline social life naturally restricts online social rhythms. This research supports an understanding of human social dynamics in terms of systems of coupled oscillators.
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Taxonomy
TopicsOpinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation · Neural dynamics and brain function
