Abstract:
The paper reviews the main results of the study of real social networks (networks of
collaboration between scientists and actors, networks of citation of scientific publications, networks of friends
and acquaintances, etc.) and modern online social networks (Twitter, Facebook etc.) from the complex networks
theory standpoint. Based on original research by the authors, it reveals peculiarities of perception of certain
complex networks.
Keywords:scalefree networks, assortativity, online social networks.