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  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Course group shot
  • Virtual social science
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What is social science?
  • 1.1.1. Social systems are continuously restructuring networks
  • 1.2. Social systems are complex systems
  • 1.2.1. What is co-evolution?
  • 2. A virtual society
  • 2.1. The universe: the Pardus game
  • 2.1.1. The census of avatars
  • 2.1.2. The structure of the universe
  • 2.1.3. Trade and economy
  • 2.1.4. Communication
  • 2.1.5. Friends and enemies
  • 2.1.6. Performance measures of players
  • ""states
  • 2.1.7. Alliances
  • 3. How do people interact?
  • 3.1. Testing a classic sociological hypothesis of social interaction: weak ties
  • 3.1.1. How strong do people interact?
  • Kepler's law
  • 3.2. Forces between avatars
  • Newton's law for social interactions?
  • 4. How do people organize?
  • 4.1. Dynamics of the ""atoms of society"": triadic closure
  • 4.1.1. Testing triadic closure
  • the triad-significance profile
  • 4.2. Taking triadic closure seriously
  • understandingsocial multilayer network structure
  • 4.2.1. Characteristic exponents
  • 4.3. Degree distributions for negative ties are power laws
  • positive are not
  • 4.4. Social balance
  • 4.4.1. Origin of social balance
  • 4.5. Avatars organize in multiples of four
  • 4.5.1. Dunbar numbers
  • 4.6. The behavioral code
  • 4.6.1. Two ways of seeing the same data
  • 4.6.2. Behavioral code and predicting behavior
  • 4.6.3. Worldlines of players
  • 4.6.4. Zipf's law in the human behavioral code
  • 4.7. Network-network interactions
  • 5. Gender differences
  • 5.1. Gender differences in networking
  • 5.1.1. Gender differences in network topology
  • 5.1.2. Gender differences in temporal behavior
  • 6. Mobility
  • how avatars move in their universe
  • 6.1. Jump- and waiting time distributions
  • 6.2. Long-term memory and mobility
  • 7. The wealth of virtual nations
  • 7.1. More on the Pardus economy
  • 7.2. Wealth
  • 7.3. Inequality
  • 7.4. Behavioral factors for wealth
  • 7.4.1. Influence of activity on wealth
  • 7.4.2. Influence of achievement factors on wealth
  • 7.4.3. Wealth depends on how social you are
  • 7.5. Wealth and position in the multilayer network
  • 8. Towards a new social science?
  • Measuring social and political phenomena on the web
  • 1. Background and motivation
  • 2. Measuring gender inequality on Wikipedia
  • 3. Modeling minorities in social networks
  • 4. Measuring voting power and behavior in liquid democracy
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Science of success: An introduction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Performance and success
  • 2.1. Performance drives success
  • 2.2. Performance is bounded
  • 3. Success as a collective phenomenon
  • 3.1. Success or recognition is unbounded
  • 3.2. Success breeds success
  • 3.3. Quality times previous success determines future success
  • 4. Science of science
  • 4.1. Quantifying long-term scientific impact
  • 4.2. The Q-model
  • 4.3. Credit is based on perception, not performance