Finding evidence of community from blogging co-citations: a social network analytic approach (2006)
| Venue: | Proceedings of 3rd IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2006 |
| Citations: | 3 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Chin06findingevidence,
author = {Alvin Chin and Mark Chignell},
title = {Finding evidence of community from blogging co-citations: a social network analytic approach},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 3rd IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2006},
year = {2006},
pages = {191--200}
}
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Abstract
In this paper, we examine the problem of evaluating communities in blogs. We describe the construction and instrumentation of a research blog (on Canadian independent music) designed as a tool for measuring community effects in blogging. We then identify a number of measures concerning strength and type of communities. Using research results from sociology and psychology concerning how communities grow and function, as well as clustering algorithms from the physical and applied sciences, we demonstrate how these measures can be used in a case study based on the research blog that we developed. In addition to providing these results, the paper also introduces a computational framework based on social network analysis, which can be used to measure and evaluate community in blogs.
