Opinion Leadership on Gun Control in Social Networks: Preferential Attachment versus Reciprocal Linking
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This study involves a network analysis on Twitter discourse about gun control. In a test of competing models explaining social network dynamics, preferential attachment versus reciprocity, the latter received stronger support for the data set as a whole. Outdegree centrality at Time 1 was more closely correlated with degree centrality at Time 2 than was indegree centrality at Time 1. However, at the earliest stages of network formation, indegree centrality was the stronger force. The study further explores the process of opinion leader evolution and changes in group views on the issue of gun control.
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