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Channel-specific daily patterns in mobile communication
Aledavood, Talayeh Lopez, Eduardo Roberts, Sam G. B. Reed-Tsochas, Felix Moro, Esteban Dunbar, Robin I. M. Saramäki, Jari
Aledavood, Talayeh
Lopez, Eduardo
Roberts, Sam G. B.
Reed-Tsochas, Felix
Moro, Esteban
Dunbar, Robin I. M.
Saramäki, Jari
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2016-05
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Humans follow circadian rhythms, visible in their activity
levels as well as physiological and psychological factors. Such rhythms
are also visible in electronic communication records, where the aggregated
activity levels of e.g. mobile telephone calls or Wikipedia edits are
known to follow their own daily patterns. Here, we study the daily communication
patterns of 24 individuals over 18 months, and show each
individual has a different, persistent communication pattern. These patterns
may differ for calls and text messages, which points towards calls
and texts serving a different role in communication. For both calls and
texts, evenings play a special role. There are also differences in the daily
patterns of males and females both for calls and texts, both in how they
communicate with individuals of the same gender vs. opposite gender,
and also in how communication is allocated at social ties of different
nature (kin ties vs. non-kin ties). Taken together, our results show that
there is an unexpected richness to the daily communication patterns,
from different types of ties being activated at different times of day to
different roles of channels and gender differences.
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Aledavood, T., Lopez, E., Roberts, S. G. B., Reed-Tsochas, F., Moro, E., Dunbar, R. I. M. & Saramäki, J. (2016). Channel-specific daily patterns in mobile communication. Proceedings of European Conference on Complex Systems 2014, pp209-218. Springer International Publishing: Switzerland
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9783319292267