Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up"

Herring, Susan C.; Kouper, Inna; Paolillo, John C.; Scheidt, Lois Ann; Tyworth, M.; Welsch, Pierre-Jean; Wright, Elijah; Yu, Ning

doi:10.1109/hicss.2005.167

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“…Sidebar links were analyzed as a manifestation of interaction between blogs: Links from randomly-selected blogs were followed from blog to blog to create a snowball sample that was then plotted as a social network diagram, from which topicallyfocused cliques emerged. Within these cliques, however, even reciprocally-linked bloggers blogging on the same topic only rarely left comments in each other's blogs or referred to each other in blog entries (Herring, Kouper, et al, 2005). Ali-Hasan and Adamic (2007) found a similar lack of correspondence between comments or citations in blog entries and contacts linked in the blogrolls of Kuwaiti bloggers.…”

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“…As with websites more generally, however, the interlinked nature of blogs poses problems for delimiting natural groupings of blogs, leading researchers such as Herring, Kouper, et al (2005) to set arbitrary limits to their snowball samples in terms of degrees of separation and to allow clusters of blogs to emerge from patterns of reciprocal linking.…”

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“…Another is the option to incorporate links into blog sidebars and entries; this is part of the definition of a blog, according to Blood (2002). Links make intertextual connections among blogs and between blogs and other kinds of online media technologically explicit; linking to someone's blog can also function as a turn in a "conversation" between bloggers (Herring, Kouper, et al, 2005). Further, linking from text and images creates integrated, multimodal units in which the contributions of different modalities cannot easily be separated (cf.…”

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“…The bottom-up and top-down approaches to identifying blog conversations used by Herring, Kouper, et al (2005) and Efimova and De Moor (2005), respectively, illustrate the types of methodological innovation that blog researchers have made in order to address certain questions about blog content. While traditional CA, CA-related paradigms, and earlier web content analyses all provide useful precedents, most blog researchers have found it necessary to innovate methodologically in some respects.…”

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Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm

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2009

International Handbook of Internet Research

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Are established methods of content analysis (CA) adequate to analyze web content, or should new methods be devised to address new technological developments? This chapter addresses this question by contrasting narrow and broad interpretations of the concept of web content analysis. The utility of a broad interpretation that subsumes the narrow one is then illustrated with reference to research on weblogs (blogs), a popular web format in which features of HTML documents and interactive computer-mediated communication converge. The chapter concludes by proposing an expanded Web Content Analysis (WebCA) paradigm in which insights from paradigms such as discourse analysis and social network analysis are operationalized and implemented within a general content analytic framework.

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“…These two sites were chosen because they were the most popular SNSs at the time when data were collected in 2007(boyd & Ellison, 2007Lu, 2008). For each of the two sites, six "seed" users were randomly selected to "crawl" two degrees out along the friendship networks (Herring et al, 2005).…”

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Social networking friendships: A cross-cultural comparison of network structure between MySpace and Wretch

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2010

Cultural Science Journal

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A cross-cultural comparison of social networking friendship between MySpace (in USA) and Wretch (in Taiwan) was conducted utilizing the high-and low-context framework proposed by Edward T. Hall (1976). Three network indicators were used to describe the network structure of both social network sites: size, density, and heterogeneity. Data were drawn from the forum "Jobs, Work, Careers" on MySpace and "Job-Related" on Wretch over a 2-month period from mid-October to mid-December in 2007. For each of the 2 sites, 6 users (3 men and 3 women) were randomly selected as sources or "seeds" from which to crawl the friendship networks. From the 6 seed users, a snowball sample was constructed by crawling 2 degrees out along the networks. The results indicated that Wretch, although it followed the expected direction predicted by Hall's model, did not have significantly larger and denser networks than MySpace. Finally, no differences in same-sex and cross-sex friendships were found between the 2 sites either. The overall findings are discussed with implications for future studies.

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The role of media‐embedded heuristics in achieving online readership popularity

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Readership popularity has been an important proxy for success for many emerging online interactive media sites. Given the exponential growth of new web applications and services, and the intense competition among them, attaining and retaining popularity are difficult. One possible approach to this problem is to enhance the competitiveness of a web presence by using appropriate web design mechanisms. Research in this area has mainly focused on technological issues and usability studies. Few studies have paid attention to the socially constructed meaning (cognition) that is embedded in the context of media. Drawing on the heuristic model from the social cognition perspective, the author posits that source credibility and content freshness are two important media‐embedded heuristics potentially influential to the readership popularity of online interactive media sites. The content analysis results of 100 leading weblogs strongly supported this hypotheses. Key quantitative findings were also consistent with the qualitative evidence provided by 28 expert practitioners. This study expands our understanding of the related constructs from a social cognition perspective and calls for design attention to influential media‐embedded traits when developing online interactive media and related websites.

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Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up"

Cited by 204 publications

References 17 publications

Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm

Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm

Social networking friendships: A cross-cultural comparison of network structure between MySpace and Wretch

The role of media‐embedded heuristics in achieving online readership popularity

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