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Characterizing the Evolution of Communities on Reddit

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Humphrey Mensah,

Sucheta SoundarajanAuthors Info & Claims

SMSociety'20: International Conference on Social Media and Society

Pages 58 - 64

https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400814

Published: 22 July 2020 Publication History

Abstract

One of the most important structures in social networks is communities. Communities in social networks evolve over time. Understanding the evolution of communities is useful in many applications, such as building successful communities, maintaining the success of communities, etc. There have been some works on studying online communities such as understanding the life cycle of users and understanding the loyalty of members in a community. An aspect of online community studies that has not been sufficiently studied is the evolution of communities over time. In this work, we investigate factors that significantly differentiate the different parts of the evolution of communities. Firstly, we identify the different patterns that can exist in the evolution of communities. Next, we examine how different features differentiate parts of the patterns identified. Experimental results showed that the linguistic style of users who make posts and the interaction dynamics of members in a community are related to different parts of communities’ evolution with respect to the number of active users.

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DOI:10.1145/3400806

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Federal University of Pelotas and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil
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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain
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Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
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University of Maine at Augusta in the United States
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Royal Roads University in Canada
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DePaul University in the United States
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DePaul University in the United States

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Wang YLv Q(2023)Jump off the Bandwagon? Characterizing Bandwagon Fans’ Future Loyalty in Online NBA Fan Communities2023 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Sustainable Computing & Communications, Social Computing & Networking (ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom)10.1109/ISPA-BDCloud-SocialCom-SustainCom59178.2023.00158(953-960)Online publication date: 21-Dec-2023
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3506860.3506864

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