Telecommunications Science ›› 2010, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (10): 109-114.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-0801.2010.10.029

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Study on Social Network of Mobile Phone User

Xinxin Qiao1,Jihong Zhu2,Yong Shen3   

  1. 1 School of Information&Engineering,Huzhou Teachers College,Huzhou 313000,China
    2 College of Electronics&Information Engineering,Tongji University,Shanghai 201804,China
    3 College of Electronics&Information Engineering,Tongji University,Shanghai 201804,China
  • Online:2010-10-15 Published:2010-10-15

Abstract:

With a sample of college users,based on strength tie theory,the current study adopts name generator in ego-centered network to explore the social networkˊs feature of mobile phone user. The result suggests that the mean of mobile phone usersˊnet work size is 9.7,personal network size is 6 or 7,group network size is 3 or 4,and the type of relationship is 3 or 4. The top five relationships are lovers or good friends,parents,roommate or neighbor,classmate and kinsman.

Key words: social network, strength tie theory, name generator

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