基于块模型的微信用户关系网络分析

The Analysis of Wechat Users' Relationships Network Based on the Block Model

微信的成熟发展使其成为人们维护人际关系的一个重要平台,它对于人际沟通和信息传播有着至关重要的作用.本文在对微信相关研究进行分析的基础上,基于定量分析基本原理,选取一个微信用户的全部好友作为研究对象,形成用户关系网络,并采用块模型的方法,探讨群体之间关注关系和微信用户关系网络的整体结构.通过研究发现,微信用户关系网络中存在大量的子群体,各个子群也有较多的共享成员,各个子群之间、子群内部都有互动和交流;子群分布呈现差序格局,群体内部关系较群体之间关系活跃,强关系占主导地位,弱关系不明显.

The mature development of Wechat makes it became an important platform for people to maintain interpersonal relationship,and it plays a very important role in interpersonal communication and dissemination of information.The paper chooses a Wechat user and its all friends as the object of study based on the the research about Wechat and quantitative analysis to format a users＇ relationship network; at the same time,it used the block model to analyze the relationship between the groups and the overall structure Wechat users＇ relationships network. Based on the research,it finds that there are a large number of subgroups in the users＇ relationship networks,and some subgroups have shareing members; internal between subgroups, and each subgroup has interaction and communication; the distribution of subgroups showed the pattern of difference sequence,and the relationship internal the groups is stronger than between groups,and strong ties predominate,so weak ties are not obvious.