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SUBMITTER: Yang HN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7313755 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Hao-Nan HN Xu Xin-Jian XJ Liang Haili H Wang Xiaofan X
PloS one 20200624 6
Online forums in Chinese universities play an important role in understanding collective behavior of college students. Of particular interest are community and popularity. We address these two issues by examining data from Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) of four Chinese universities. To characterize users' behavior, we introduce a hypothesis test to infer individual preferred boards, which yields a polarization of users. We also perform a multilevel algorithm to detect communities of each BBS netw ...[more]