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Area of Science:

  • Computational Social Science
  • Network Science
  • Ecology

Background:

  • Social relationships and communication (discourse) are known to be interconnected.
  • Existing theoretical models are insufficient to explain the co-evolution of social and semantic networks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel theoretical model for socio-semantic networks inspired by ecological interactions.
  • To investigate the ENRON email network for properties characteristic of mutualistic ecological networks.

Main Methods:

  • Modeled socio-semantic networks as interacting social community and document-based processes.
  • Used a plant-pollinator matrix analogy, mapping communities to 'insects' and topics to 'plants'.
  • Applied block modelling for community detection and topic modelling for latent topics.

Main Results:

  • The ENRON socio-semantic network interaction matrix exhibited characteristics of mutualism.
  • These characteristics include moderate connectance, heterogeneous degree distribution, moderate modularity, and high nestedness.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed ecological framework provides a novel approach to understanding human socio-semantic dynamics.
  • The findings support the analogy between social-semantic interactions and ecological mutualistic networks.