The aim of the dissertation is to shed light on the complex determinants of tie formation. Extant research has linked similarity and dissimilarity (respectively homophily and heterophily) and different proximities types to the likelihood of tie formation in a linear way. However, there are...

Abstract: The first concept of privacy was provided by Samuel D. Warren and Louis Brandeis in 1890 as “the right to be left alone”. At that time, the world was more than a century away from people voluntary disclosing information and sharing data on a large scale via the Internet on social...