English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

The small-world phenomenon is found in many self-organising systems. Systemsconfigured in small-world networks spread information more easily than inrandom or regular lattice-type networks. Whilst it is a known fact thatsmall-world networks have short average path length and high clusteringcoefficient in self-organising systems, the ego centralities that maintain thecohesiveness of small-world network have not been formally defined. Here weshow that instantaneous events such as the release of news items via Twitter,coupled with active community arguments related to the news item form aparticular type of small-world network. Analysis of the centralities in thenetwork reveals that community arguments maintain the small-world networkwhilst actively maintaining the cohesiveness and boundary of the group. Theresults demonstrate how an active Twitter community unconsciously forms asmall-world network whilst interacting locally with a bordering community. Overtime, such local interactions brought about the global emergence of thesmall-world network, connecting media channels with human activities.Understanding the small-world phenomenon in relation to online social or civicmovement is important, as evident in the spate of online activists that tippedthe power of governments for the better or worst in recent times. The support,or removal of high centrality nodes in such networks has importantramifications in the self-expression of society and civic discourses. Thepresentation in this article anticipates further exploration of man-madeself-organising systems where a larger cluster of ad-hoc and active communitymaintains the overall cohesiveness of the network.

Local Interactions and the Emergence of a Twitter Small-World Network