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Finding structure in Blogs: bipartite networks analysis: invited presentation, extended abstract

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.8047,
    author={Bosiljka  Tadic and Marija  Mitrovic},
    title={Finding structure in Blogs: bipartite networks analysis: invited presentation, extended abstract},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={VALUETOOLS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={Complex networks Blog structure Cyber communities},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.8047}
}
  • Bosiljka Tadic
    Marija Mitrovic
    Year: 2010
    Finding structure in Blogs: bipartite networks analysis: invited presentation, extended abstract
    VALUETOOLS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.8047
Bosiljka Tadic1,*, Marija Mitrovic1,*
  • 1: Department of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
*Contact email: bosiljka.tadic@ijs.si, marija.mitrovic@ijs.si

Abstract

Temporal patterns of activity on Blogs (posting, reading, commenting, comment-on-comment) contain valuable infor- mation about user behavior, which leads to potentially new type of social clustering in the Blog space. Here we show how the structure in Blog space can be retrieved from the data by mapping onto a bipartite graph and using the appro- priate methods of complex networks, including the spectral analysis of graphs [4, 3]. With the analysis of (almost) com- plete set of data from B92 Blogsite since its opening, we demonstrate how the user communities emerge in time and what are possible underlying mechanisms of this structure.

Keywords
Complex networks Blog structure Cyber communities
Published
2010-05-16
Publisher
ICST
Modified
2010-05-16
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.8047
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