Exploiting the Relationship between Online and Spatial Collaboration Networks for Online Mass Collaboration

This electronic document is a “live” template and Modern communication and information technologies, especially Internet services, have diminished the role of geography and territorial boundaries on the access and transmissibility of information. This has enabled anyone for closer communication and collaboration. Nevertheless, geography is still an important factor affecting online collaboration. Here we present an empirical analysis of online mass collaboration from a macroscopic view to show the role of geography in the online collaboration, by identifying the users' online collaboration network and their spatial collaboration network which based on the geographic locations of their public social account information. The results showed that the online collaboration networks and their spatial collaboration networks are closely related but has some differences from the macroscopic view.