Abstract
Blogs form an essential part of the Web and they are one of the main sources of information to millions of people around the world. Blogs such as Gizmodo, Slashdot, and many others, receive a very large number of daily visitors and consequently are a main force on driving what information becomes known to the public. Furthermore, information in blogs have become crucial to established news agencies such as CNN and NBC, which have dedicated programs and reporters to discuss information in the Blogosphere. This paper looks at the structure the blogosphere using Blogspot–Google’s blog hosting service–as a case study.We created networks for 12 different blog categories and a combined network. We show that these networks are very similar to the structure of the whole WWW and that the blogosphere is highly connected regardless of category divisions.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Agarwal, N.: A study of communities and influence in blogosphere. In: Proceedings of the 2nd SIGMOD PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research, IDAR 2008, pp. 19–24 (2008)
Amaral, L.A., Scala, A., Barthelemy, M., Stanley, H.E.: Classes of small-world networks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97(21), 11149–11152 (2000)
Barabási, A., Albert, R.: Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 286(5439), 509 (1999)
Cointet, J.-P., Roth, C.: Socio-semantic dynamics in a blog network. In: IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, vol. 4, pp. 114–121. IEEE Computer Society (2009)
Dautrich, K., Barnes, C.: Freedom of the press survey: General population 2005. University of Connecticut, Department of Public Policy (May 2005)
Dorogovtsev, S.N., Goltsev, A.V., Mendes, J.F.F.: Pseudofractal scale-free web. Phys. Rev. E 65(6), 066122 (2002)
Dorogovtsev, S.N., Mendes, J.F.F.: Evolution of networks with aging of sites. Phys. Rev. E 62(2), 1842–1845 (2000)
Farrell, H., Drezner, D.: The power and politics of blogs. Public Choice 134(1), 15–30 (2008)
Gruhl, D., Guha, R., Kumar, R., Novak, J., Tomkins, A.: The predictive power of online chatter. In: KDD 2005: Proceeding of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining, pp. 78–87. ACM Press, New York (2005)
Guo, J., Fan, C., Guo, Z.: Weblog patterns and human dynamics with decreasing interest. The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems 81(3), 341–344 (2011)
Huffaker, D.A., Calvert, S.L.: Gender, identity, and language use in teenage blogs. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10(2) (2005)
Java, A., Kolari, P., Finin, T., Oates, T.: Modeling the spread of influence on the blogosphere. In: Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (March 2006)
Newman, M.: The structure and function of complex networks. SIAM Review 45(2), 167–256 (2003)
Roy, D.: New horizons in the study of child language acquisitio. In: Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, England (2009)
Watts, D., Strogatz, S.: Collective dynamics of small-world networks. Nature 393(6684), 440–442 (1998)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Saha, P., Menezes, R. (2013). Measuring a Category-Based Blogosphere. In: Menezes, R., Evsukoff, A., González, M. (eds) Complex Networks. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 424. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30287-9_14
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30287-9_14
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-30286-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-30287-9
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)