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Comparing Online Community Structure of Patients of Chronic Diseases

Social and Information Networks 2015-02-19 v1 Physics and Society

Abstract

In this paper we compare the social network structure of people talking about Crohn's disease, Cystic Fibrosis, and Type 1 diabetes on Facebook and Twitter. We find that the Crohn's community's contributors are most emotional on Facebook and Twitter and most negative on Twitter, while the T1D community's communication network structure is most cohesive.

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@article{arxiv.1502.05263,
  title  = {Comparing Online Community Structure of Patients of Chronic Diseases},
  author = {Hanuma Teja Maddali and Peter A. Gloor and Peter Margolis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05263},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks COINs15, Tokyo, Japan March 12-14, 2015 (arXiv:1502.01142