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Table 3 Results from applying the Newman-Girvan clustering algorithm to our abstraction hierarchy

From: A qualitative, network-centric method for modeling socio-technical systems, with applications to evaluating interventions on social media platforms to increase social equality

Component name

Nodes

Relationship

Adaption, coping, and interaction over time, locations (of the two individuals), racial income disparities, relationship

Algorithms, policies, and norms

Algorithms, click through to user profile, community behaviors, community messaging, community policies, fairness constraint, optimization function

Categorization

minimal group categories & filters, race-based categories & filters, search filters presented, user profile layout

User cognition

dating history, mental model of offline dating, mental model of online dating, preferences, stereotypes

User goals, constraints, and actions

communicate with potential partner, cultural expectations, effort required, find long term partner, increase interracial relationships, offline dating, personal desires and values, reduce racial income disparity and segregation, self present

Platform goals and constraints

Data-driven insights, dating/matchmaking theories, effort reduction, find long-term partner, help people find a long-term partner, maximize profit, profit from data (wanted by advertisers)

  1. The left-hand column represents a name we construct to refer to each cluster in the text; on the right, the nodes in the cluster