Pulling sense out of today’s informational chaos: LiveJournal as a site of knowledge creation and sharing

Raynes-Goldie, Kate

doi:10.5210/fm.v9i12.1194

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“…Fono and Raynes-Goldie [8] for example studied the semantics of friendship relations in the OSN LiveJournal and find that a number of overlapping processes drive the formation of links: ties may be formed as measures of trust, reciprocity, an extension of offline acquaintance or as a facilitator for information transmission. This function of friends as content providers [9] is a strong force, as it even drives the friend selection of users: in a usage survey on Facebook, subscribers named their interest to obtain information from friends to form friendship relations [10]. According to network theory, such content dissemination should work best across "weak ties" [11] which are linking tightly connected clusters, as these should transmit information with the least amount of redundancy.…”

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Are Friends Overrated? A Study for the Social Aggregator Digg.com

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Abstract. The key feature of online social networks is the ability of users to become active, make friends and interact with those around them. Such interaction is typically perceived as critical to these platforms; therefore, a significant share of research has investigated the characteristics of social links, friendship relations, community structure, searching for the role and importance of individual members. In this paper, we present results from a multi-year study of the online social network Digg.com, indicating that the importance of friends and the friend network in the propagation of information is less than originally perceived. While we note that users form and maintain social structure, the importance of these links and their contribution is very low: Even nearly identically interested friends are only activated with a probability of 2% and only in 50% of stories that became popular we find evidence that the social ties were critical to the spread.

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“…According to sociological theory, friendship relations in an OSN grow directed by common interests and tastes [9]. Within Digg, all news stories are classified within eight major topic areas, subdivided by 50 special interests.…”

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Are Friends Overrated? A Study for the Social Aggregator Digg.com

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“…Friendships in Online Social Networks do not necessarily follow this scheme as one may also create friendship relations towards users without knowing them in person. The hypothesis that personal preferences limit the possible number of users, still holds as online friendships are based on common interests as shown in [5,11,14,15].…”

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“…The underlying justification our approach is driven by is the sociopsychological hypothesis, which was empirically verified for digg.com [5] and facebook.com [14], that users form social ties with those around them who are similar in socio-economic status, interests and opinions [15]. In consequence, knowing a user's friends can therefore to a large degree tell us the individual tastes and choices of a social network user even when his profile page is hidden.…”

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How much do your friends know about you?

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Doerr

Shadravan

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Social Network Systems

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After the early land rush and fast exponential growth of online social networking platforms, concerns about how data placed in online social networks may be exploited and abused have begun to appear among mainstream users. Social networking sites have responded to these new public sentiments by introducing privacy filters to their site, allowing users to specify which aspects of their profile are visible to whom. In this paper, we demonstrate that such an approach to privacy and informational self-determination is largely futile: as we form social relations and build networks with those alike us, much of who we are and what we do can be reconstructed from unhidden parts of the social graph.

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“…Qualitative studies of bloggers' motivations (Raynes-Goldie, 2004;Fono and Raynes-Goldie, 2006) reveal bloggers are interested in producing their own content and opinions on current events, interacting with other bloggers and generating debate on their own opinions, as well as in joining communities of shared interests. Other papers distinguish between different types of bloggers by their position in a network and determine how this influences their activity.…”

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Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention

Gaudeul¹,

Mathieu²,

Peroni³

Internet Econometrics

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Blogs differ from other media in that authors are usually not remunerated and inscribe themselves in communities of similarly minded individuals. Bloggers value reciprocal attention, interaction with other bloggers and information from reading other blogs; they value being read but also writing itself, irrespective of an audience. A novel dataset from a major blogging community, LiveJournal, is used to verify predictions from a model of social networking. Content production and blogging activity are found to be related to the size and degree of asymmetry of the relational networks in which bloggers are inscribed. JEL Classifications: D63, D85, H41, L17, L82, L86, Z13Keywords: Blog; Internet; Media; Community; Social Network; Reciprocity; LiveJournal; Web 2.0. This paper models the behavior of bloggers, a specific type of producers of media content on the Internet. Such content consists mainly of entries, or short articles, published in blogs. Blogs are websites which are either individually or collectively maintained and deal in a variety of topics, ranging from the most mundane to the political, scientific or cultural. Entries are usually rather short, frequent and arranged chronologically. Blogs feature many links with a number of other websites, and they are widely read by and engaged with by the Internet community. Bloggers spend considerable time interacting with their readers, mainly other bloggers. They also read the entries of other bloggers, with whom they establish relations maintained over long periods of time.Blogs differ from other media as their authors are usually not remunerated and inscribe themselves in communities of similarly minded bloggers. There is little hierarchy and no clear distinction between writers and readers, i.e. between producers and consumers of information. Blogging * The support of the ESRC is gratefully acknowledged. This paper was presented at the 2d FLOSS Workshop in Rennes, France, and in a seminar at the University of East Anglia. We are grateful to Peter Moffatt for useful discussions. Bloggers respond to a mix of different motivations; they value interaction with other bloggers and information from reading other blogs. They value being read but they also value writing itself, irrespective of an audience.The aim of this paper is to determine how a mix of agents with different motivations exchange reciprocal attention, and to measure the relative importance of different motivations in taking part in the newly emergent networks of 'blogs'. In doing so, the paper exploits a unique and novel dataset from the LiveJournal blogging community.This paper thus devotes its attention to the moral codes, motivations and interactions of online participants into blogging networks. For example, if bloggers care primarily about expressing themselves, then their activity will not depend on the number in their audience. If instead bloggers care primarily about building relations with their readers and those they read, then there will be a fine balance between how much attention a ...

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Pulling sense out of today’s informational chaos: LiveJournal as a site of knowledge creation and sharing

Cited by 13 publications

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Are Friends Overrated? A Study for the Social Aggregator Digg.com

Are Friends Overrated? A Study for the Social Aggregator Digg.com

How much do your friends know about you?

Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention

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