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Topological characteristics of the Buddhist Community in the VKontakte social network
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S013216250000756-4-1
Publication type
Article
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Published
Authors
Timur Badmatsyrenov 
Occupation: Assoc. Prof. of Department of Political Science and Sociology
Affiliation: Buryat State University
Address: Russian Federation, Ulan-Ude
Fedor Khandarov
Affiliation: Buryat State University
Address: Russian Federation, Ulan-Ude
Maxim Skvortsov
Affiliation: Buryat State University
Address: Russian Federation, Ulan-Ude
Edition
Issue 8
Pages
74-82
Abstract

   This paper provides an analysis of virtual Buddhist communities in the "VKontakte" social net­works. Social media have become the environment for the emergence of new religious activity forms. Digital social media are a very promising field for sociological research of religious activity and identity. Actually, digital religion is a new agenda in the Sociology of Religion and Digital Social Studies. At the same time this field is connected to the methodological and technical problems of "Big Data" and social networks studies with its weak structured and increasing volume. "VKontakte" is the most popular social network in Russia with more than 380 million users. This article deals with an attempt to analyze a number of important topo­logical characteristics of the graph model of social network "VKontakte" community of Buddhists. For the graph of friendship of Russian Buddhists under consideration, assortativeness, the distribution of degrees of vertices, and the lengths of the shortest paths of the graph are investigated. It is shown that at present there is a significant growth of the Buddhist segment of the social network, there is an increase in the number of Buddhist communities and Buddhist users. This segment as a whole reproduces social and network characteristics, but Buddhism is not an assortative feature, and Buddhist communities are weakly structured and are under the influence of many differentiating factors.

Keywords
Buddhism, Buddhist communities, Digital Religion, mathematical modelling, social networks, Internet
Received
06.10.2018
Date of publication
14.10.2018
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