Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity
Abstract Social media like Twitter or Instagram play the role of fertile platforms for self-exhibition and allow their users to earn a good repute. People higher in grandiosity share their contents in a charismatic way and as a result, they are successful in gaining attention from others, which may...
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| description | Abstract Social media like Twitter or Instagram play the role of fertile platforms for self-exhibition and allow their users to earn a good repute. People higher in grandiosity share their contents in a charismatic way and as a result, they are successful in gaining attention from others, which may also influence their responses and behaviors. Such attention and repute enable them to be a trendsetter or a socially recognized maven. In this paper, we present a complex adaptive mental network model of a narcissist to see how popularity can adaptively influence his/her behavior. To analyze and to support behavior showed by our model, we used some key performance indicators from the literature to study the popularity and narcissism of 30 Instagram profiles. The results of the—both computational and empirical—study indicate that our presented computational adaptive network model in general shows the behavior found from the empirical data. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dcafa92fb8d34c36b375bbf45d2a39732022-12-21T19:22:20ZengSpringerOpenApplied Network Science2364-82282020-10-015113110.1007/s41109-020-00319-6Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularityFakhra Jabeen0Charlotte Gerritsen1Jan Treur2Social AI Group, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamSocial AI Group, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamSocial AI Group, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamAbstract Social media like Twitter or Instagram play the role of fertile platforms for self-exhibition and allow their users to earn a good repute. People higher in grandiosity share their contents in a charismatic way and as a result, they are successful in gaining attention from others, which may also influence their responses and behaviors. Such attention and repute enable them to be a trendsetter or a socially recognized maven. In this paper, we present a complex adaptive mental network model of a narcissist to see how popularity can adaptively influence his/her behavior. To analyze and to support behavior showed by our model, we used some key performance indicators from the literature to study the popularity and narcissism of 30 Instagram profiles. The results of the—both computational and empirical—study indicate that our presented computational adaptive network model in general shows the behavior found from the empirical data.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-020-00319-6Digital narcissismDigital reputationPopularity influenceComplex network |
| spellingShingle | Fakhra Jabeen Charlotte Gerritsen Jan Treur Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity Applied Network Science Digital narcissism Digital reputation Popularity influence Complex network |
| title | Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity |
| title_full | Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity |
| title_fullStr | Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity |
| title_short | Narcissism and fame: a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity |
| title_sort | narcissism and fame a complex network model for the adaptive interaction of digital narcissism and online popularity |
| topic | Digital narcissism Digital reputation Popularity influence Complex network |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-020-00319-6 |
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