User Participation in Social Media Digg Study

The social news aggregator Digg allows users to submit and moderate stories by voting on (digging) them. As is true of most social sites, user participation on Digg is non-uniformly distributed, with few users contributing a disproportionate fraction of content. We studied user participation on Digg...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops S. 255 - 258
1. Verfasser: Lerman, Kristina
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 02.11.2007
Schriftenreihe:ACM Conferences
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Applied computing > Document management and text processing > Document preparation > Multi > mixed media creation
Human-centered computing > Collaborative and social computing
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > Interaction paradigms > Hypertext > hypermedia
Information systems > Information retrieval
Information systems > Information storage systems
social mediaincentives
ISBN:0769530281, 9780769530284
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Zusammenfassung:The social news aggregator Digg allows users to submit and moderate stories by voting on (digging) them. As is true of most social sites, user participation on Digg is non-uniformly distributed, with few users contributing a disproportionate fraction of content. We studied user participation on Digg, to see whether it is motivated by competition, fueled by user ranking, or social factors, such as community acceptance. For our study we collected activity data of the top users weekly over the course of a year. We computed the number of stories users submitted, dugg or commented on weekly. We report a spike in user activity in September 2006, followed by a gradual decline, which seems unaffected by the elimination of user ranking. The spike can be explained by a controversy that broke out at the beginning of September 2006. We believe that the lasting acrimony that this incident has created led to a decline of top user participation on Digg.
ISBN:0769530281
9780769530284
DOI:10.5555/1339264.1339702