A Social Hypertext Model for Finding Community In Blogs (original) (raw)

Abstract

sparkles

AI

This research explores the concept of social hypertext primarily in the context of blogs, viewing them as a convergence of document networks and social networks for community engagement analysis. A model is proposed that integrates blogging behavior, link analysis, and social network analysis to assess community strength through centrality measures and behavioral surveys. The paper includes a case study demonstrating the application of the proposed methods and concludes with insights for future implementations in analyzing communities within blogs.

Loading...

Loading Preview

Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.

References (39)

  1. REFERENCES
  2. Allen, J. and Dillman, D. Against all Odds: Rural Community in the Information Age. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1994.
  3. Chin, A. and Chignell, M. Finding Evidence of Community from Blogging Co-citations: A Social Network Analytic Approach. In Proceedings of 3 rd IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2006 (WBC06) (San Sebastian, Spain, Feb. 26-28, 2006), 2006, 191-200.
  4. Blanchard, A. The effects of dispersed virtual communities on face-to-face social capital. In M. Huysman & V. Wulf (Eds), Social capital and information technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 2003.
  5. Blanchard, A. Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community and Culture. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere, 2004.
  6. Blanchard, A. and Markus, M. The Experienced "Sense" of a Virtual Community: Characteristics and Processes. The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, 35, 1, 2004.
  7. Borgatti, S. P. et al., Ucinet for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis. Analytic Technologies, Harvard, USA, 2002.
  8. Burroughs, S. M., and Eby, L. T. Psychological sense of community at work: An explanatory framework. Journal of Community Psychology, 26 (1998), 509-532.
  9. Burt, R.S., and M. Minor, Applied Network Analysis: A Methodological Introduction, Newbury Park: Sage, 1983
  10. Chavis, D. Sense of Community Index. Association for the Study and Development of Community, http://www.capablecommunity.com/pubs/SCIndex.PDF.
  11. Chavis, D. and Wandersman, A. Sense of community in the urban environment: A catalyst for participation and community development. American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb 1990), 55 -81.
  12. de Nooy, W. et al. Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 2005.
  13. Efimova, L. and Hendrick, S. In Search for a Virtual Settlement: An Exploration of Weblog Community Boundaries. https://doc.telin.nl/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File- 46041/weblog_community_boundaries.pdf, 2005.
  14. Efimova, L. et al. Finding ``the life between buildings'': An approach for defining a weblog community, AOIR Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations, Chicago, 2005.
  15. Erickson, T. WWW as Social Hypertext. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39, No. 1 (January 1996), 15-17.
  16. Fisher, D. Using Egocentric Networks to Understand Communication. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 9, No. 5 (2005), 20-28.
  17. Flake, G. et al. Self-Organization and Identification of Web Communities. IEEE Computer, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2002), 66-71.
  18. Freeman, L. C. Centrality in Social Networks: Conceptual Clarification. Social Networks 1: 1978/79, 215-239.
  19. Herring, S.C. et al. Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up". In Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, USA, 2005, 107-118.
  20. Jones, Q. Virtual-communities, virtual settlements and cyber-archaeology: A theoretical outline. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1997.
  21. Kim, A. J. Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities. Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA, 2000.
  22. Kumar, R. et al. On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on World Wide Web, New York, USA, 2003, 568-576.
  23. Kumar, R. et al. Trawling the Web for emerging cyber- communities. Computer Networks. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1999.
  24. Kleinberg, J. Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment. In Proc. 9th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1998.
  25. Lanphear, B.P. et. al. Community Characteristics Associated With Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children. Pediatrics, Vol. 101, No. 2, 264-271, 1998.
  26. Maclaran, P. and Catterall, M. Researching the Social Web: Marketing Information from Virtual Communities. Marketing Intelligence and Planning, Vol. 20, No. 6, 319- 326, 2002.
  27. McMillan, D. W. and Chavis, D. M. Sense of community: A definition and theory. Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1986), 6-23.
  28. Merelo-Guervos et al. Mapping weblog communities. http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.NE/0312047, 2004.
  29. Nardi, B.A. et al. Why we blog. In Communications of the ACM, Vol. 47, No. 12, 2004, 41-46.
  30. Rheingold, H. The virtual community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier. Addison-Wesley, Toronto, Canada, 1993.
  31. Ten Thij, E. et. al. Success Factors of (Dutch) Online Dance Communities: A Validation of Website Features For Social Interaction. In Proceedings of 3 rd IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2006 (WBC06) (San Sebastian, Spain, Feb. 26-28, 2006), 2006, 201-210.
  32. Tyler, J. R. et. al. E-Mail as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations. The Information Society, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2005, 143 -153.
  33. Valdez, F. and Chignell, M. Browsing Models for Hypermedia Databases. In Proceedings of the Human Factors Society, 32nd Annual Meeting, Santa Monica, CA, 1988, 196-200.
  34. Wei, C. Formation of norms in a blog community. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community and Culture of Weblogs, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA, 2004.
  35. Wellman, B. Computer networks as social networks. Science, 293, 5537 (September 2001), 2031 -2034.
  36. Wellman, B. and Guilia, M. Net Surfers don't ride alone: Virtual communities as communities. In B. Wellman (Ed.), Networks in the global village: Life in contemporary communities, Westview Press, Boulder, USA, 1999.
  37. Wellman, B. Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1999.
  38. Wikipedia. Blogs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs, 2006.
  39. Wikipedia. Community. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community, 2006.