The "blogosphere" has been claimed to be a densely interconnected conversation, with bloggers linking to other bloggers, referring to them in their entries, and posting comments on each other's blogs. Most such characterizations have privileged a subset of popular blogs, known as the 'A-list.' This study empirically investigates the extent to which, and in what patterns, blogs are interconnected, taking as its point of departure randomly-selected blogs. Quantitative social network analysis, visualization of link patterns, and qualitative analysis of references and comments in pairs of reciprocally-linked blogs show that A-list blogs are overrepresented and central in the network, although other groupings of blogs are more densely interconnected. At the same time, a majority of blogs link sparsely or not at all to other blogs in the sample, suggesting that the blogosphere is partially interconnected and sporadically conversational.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 HerringKouperPaolilloScheidtTyworthWelschWrightYu05
%A Herring, S. C.
%A Kouper, I.
%A Paolillo, J. C.
%A Scheidt, L. A.
%A Tyworth, M.
%A Welsch, P.
%A Wright, E.
%A Yu, Ning
%B System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
%D 2005
%I IEEE
%J System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
%K blogosfera, blogs, citas, cites citeulike
%P 107b
%R 10.1109/hicss.2005.167
%T Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up"
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2005.167
%X The "blogosphere" has been claimed to be a densely interconnected conversation, with bloggers linking to other bloggers, referring to them in their entries, and posting comments on each other's blogs. Most such characterizations have privileged a subset of popular blogs, known as the 'A-list.' This study empirically investigates the extent to which, and in what patterns, blogs are interconnected, taking as its point of departure randomly-selected blogs. Quantitative social network analysis, visualization of link patterns, and qualitative analysis of references and comments in pairs of reciprocally-linked blogs show that A-list blogs are overrepresented and central in the network, although other groupings of blogs are more densely interconnected. At the same time, a majority of blogs link sparsely or not at all to other blogs in the sample, suggesting that the blogosphere is partially interconnected and sporadically conversational.
%@ 0-7695-2268-8
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abstract = {{The "blogosphere" has been claimed to be a densely interconnected conversation, with bloggers linking to other bloggers, referring to them in their entries, and posting comments on each other's blogs. Most such characterizations have privileged a subset of popular blogs, known as the 'A-list.' This study empirically investigates the extent to which, and in what patterns, blogs are interconnected, taking as its point of departure randomly-selected blogs. Quantitative social network analysis, visualization of link patterns, and qualitative analysis of references and comments in pairs of reciprocally-linked blogs show that A-list blogs are overrepresented and central in the network, although other groupings of blogs are more densely interconnected. At the same time, a majority of blogs link sparsely or not at all to other blogs in the sample, suggesting that the blogosphere is partially interconnected and sporadically conversational.}},
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author = {Herring, S. C. and Kouper, I. and Paolillo, J. C. and Scheidt, L. A. and Tyworth, M. and Welsch, P. and Wright, E. and Yu, Ning},
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journal = {System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on},
keywords = {blogosfera, blogs, citas, cites citeulike},
location = {Big Island, HI, USA},
month = jan,
pages = {107b},
posted-at = {2014-05-23 17:09:20},
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publisher = {IEEE},
timestamp = {2017-09-08T10:53:23.000+0200},
title = {{Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up"}},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2005.167},
year = 2005
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