Identifying communities in blogs: roles for social network analysis and survey instruments

Abstract. This paper focuses on the community analysis of conference participants using their face-to-face contacts, visited talks, and tracks in a social and ubiquitous conferencing scenario. We consider human face-to-face contacts and perform a dynamic analysis of the number of contacts and their lengths. On these dimensions, we specifically investigate user-interaction and community structure according to different special interest groups during a conference. Additionally, using the community information, we examine different roles and their characteristic elements. The analysis is grounded using real-world conference data capturing community information about participants and their face-to-face contacts. The analysis results indicate, that the face-to-face contacts show inherent community structure grounded using the special interest groups. Furthermore, we provide individual and community-level properties, traces of different behavioral patterns, and characteristic (role) profiles.

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“…Community structure was observed in several online social networks [19,20] and is sometimes also called "virtual community" [21].…”

Section: Preliminariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Face-to-Face Contacts at a Conference: Dynamics of Communities and Roles

Atzmueller¹,

Doerfel²,

Hotho³

et al. 2012

Modeling and Mining Ubiquitous Social Media

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“…3) Front Interactivity: MD WebGIS roaming: scaling, translation, ranging, Hawkeye etc; 3D scene roaming: real-time rendering of target building's 3D scene; 3D avatar interaction: Web2.0 based chat [5], blog [1], RSS, albums, individual cabins etc. ; public information release: announcement, carpooling.…”

Section: ) Data Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

WebVRGIS: WebGIS Based Interactive Online 3D Virtual Community

Lü

Réhman

Chen

2013

2013 International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization

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In this paper we present a WebVRGIS based Interactive Online 3D Virtual Community which is achieved based on WebGIS technology and web VR technology. It is MultiDimensional(MD) web geographic information system (WebGIS) based 3D interactive online virtual community which is a virtual real-time 3D communication systems and web systems development platform. It is capable of running on a variety of browsers.In this work, four key issues are studied: (1) Multi-source MD geographical data fusion of the WebGIS, (2) scene combination with 3D avatar, (3) massive data network dispatch, and (4) multiuser avatar real-time interactive. Our system is divided into three modules: data preprocessing, background management and front end user interaction. The core of the front interaction module is packaged in the MD map expression engine 3GWebMapper and the free plug-in network 3D rendering engine WebFlashVR. We have evaluated the robustness of our system on three campus of Ocean University of China(OUC) as a testing base. The results shows high efficiency, easy to use and robustness of our system.

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“…Previous studies have investigated communities in blogs, Wei [18] used content analysis to find norms that indicate membership rules, Nardi et al [19] used interviews and surveys to investigate feelings of community and Chin [20] used social network analysis to identify communities in blogs. Taking into consideration the popularity of blogs, the facts that blogs can be connected in virtual communities of similar interests [21] and the that the activities that take place in the blogosphere affect the external world [22] as well as the importance of understanding influential bloggers, the paper aims at investigating the formation of focal-point political blogs and their influence in Greece.…”

Section: Open Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bloggers’ Community Characteristics and Influence within Greek Political Blogosphere

2012

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This paper investigates the properties of central or core political blogs. They can be located as clusters of blogs whose members have many incoming links. Other blogs form clouds around them in the sense that they link the core blogs. A case study records Greek political blogs and their incoming links reported through their blogrolls. The adjacency matrix from the blogs' social network is analyzed and clusters are located. Three of them, those with the larger numbers of incoming links, may be considered to be central. Next, four measures of influence are used to test the influence of the central blogs. The findings suggest that there are many kinds of central blogs, influential and non-influential, and high influence does not always involve high hyperlinking.

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Identifying communities in blogs: roles for social network analysis and survey instruments

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Face-to-Face Contacts at a Conference: Dynamics of Communities and Roles

Face-to-Face Contacts at a Conference: Dynamics of Communities and Roles

WebVRGIS: WebGIS Based Interactive Online 3D Virtual Community

Bloggers’ Community Characteristics and Influence within Greek Political Blogosphere

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