TY - GEN
T1 - An analysis of information diffusion in the blog world
AU - Kwon, Yong Suk
AU - Kim, Sang Wook
AU - Park, Sunju
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - In the blog world, bloggers produce information, establish relationships with other bloggers in order to exchange information, and form a blog network, an online social network. In social network theory, information diffusion is said to occur through the relationships of the social network's constituents. Contrary to the social network theory, however, when the history of information diffusion that occurs in the actual blog world is examined, a majority of information spreads between the constituents without any established relationship. Moreover the phenomenon of explosive information diffusion is also observed. Using the real-world blog data, this paper reveals that these two phenomena are related to each other and examines the causes that induce explosive information diffusion.
AB - In the blog world, bloggers produce information, establish relationships with other bloggers in order to exchange information, and form a blog network, an online social network. In social network theory, information diffusion is said to occur through the relationships of the social network's constituents. Contrary to the social network theory, however, when the history of information diffusion that occurs in the actual blog world is examined, a majority of information spreads between the constituents without any established relationship. Moreover the phenomenon of explosive information diffusion is also observed. Using the real-world blog data, this paper reveals that these two phenomena are related to each other and examines the causes that induce explosive information diffusion.
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U2 - 10.1145/1651274.1651280
DO - 10.1145/1651274.1651280
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:74049106953
SN - 9781605588070
T3 - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings
SP - 27
EP - 30
BT - 1st ACM International Workshop on Complex Networks in Information and Knowledge Management, CNIKM'09, Co-located with the 18th ACM Int. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009
T2 - 1st ACM International Workshop on Complex Networks in Information and Knowledge Management, CNIKM'09, Co-located with the 18th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009
Y2 - 2 November 2009 through 6 November 2009
ER -