[Abstract] As popular social media have been adopted by corporations for professional sharing and internal communication, ties are strengthened in the network as employee users communicate frequently with each other on work practices. On the other hand, the company hierarchy connects and governs users in a way that shapes the pattern of posting activity, interactions and enacted topics. In this paper, we investigate social ties of employees and information flow in Yammer communication by quantifying the effect of company hierarchy with experiments on a large-scale real dataset…”
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~ketansin/673/CSCI_673_Project_Paper.pdf
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