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Area of Science:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computational Social Science
  • Network Science

Background:

  • Digital interactions are reshaping collective identities, necessitating new analytical frameworks.
  • Traditional identity concepts (essentialist, representational) are insufficient for networked societies.
  • The interactional approach to identity aligns with social network analysis advancements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel definition of collective identities as recurrent, cohesive, and coordinated communicative interaction networks.
  • To develop a graph-theoretical methodology for empirically analyzing collective identities in digital spaces.
  • To investigate the structure of political and social movement identities in technopolitical interaction networks.

Main Methods:

  • Mapping and filtering interaction networks to identify communities.
  • Applying graph theory to determine strongly connected components (core identity).
  • Defining identity audiences and sources within network communities.
  • Empirical application to case studies on Twitter and Facebook.

Main Results:

  • Collective identities can be technically characterized as specific types of interaction networks.
  • The graph-theoretical approach successfully delineates the internal structure of political and social movement identities.
  • Analysis of Spanish elections, Catalan independence strike, and Indignados movement demonstrates the method's utility.

Conclusions:

  • Collective identities emerge from and are structured by technologically mediated interaction networks.
  • The proposed method offers a robust framework for studying digital collective identities.
  • Understanding identities as network phenomena is crucial in the platformized digital world.