Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace

Beyond serving as online diaries, weblogs have evolved into a complex social structure, one which is in many ways ideal for the study of the propagation of information. As weblog authors discover and republish information, we are able to use the existing link structure of blogspace to track its flow...

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Published in:IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on web intelligence pp. 207 - 214
Main Authors: Adar, Eytan, Adamic, Lada A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 01.01.2005
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Animals
Applied computing > Document management and text processing
Blogs
Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation theory > Systems theory
Data visualization
Electronic mail
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI)
Information systems > Information retrieval
Information systems > Information storage systems
Information systems > Information storage systems > Storage architectures > Storage network architectures
Mathematics of computing > Information theory
Relays
Social and professional topics
Social network services
Support vector machine classification
Support vector machines
Web pages
World Wide Web
ISBN:076952415X, 9780769524153
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Summary:Beyond serving as online diaries, weblogs have evolved into a complex social structure, one which is in many ways ideal for the study of the propagation of information. As weblog authors discover and republish information, we are able to use the existing link structure of blogspace to track its flow. Where the path by which it spreads is ambiguous, we utilize a novel inference scheme that takes advantage of data describing historical, repeating patterns of "infection." Our paper describes this technique as well as a visualization system that allows for the graphical tracking of information flow.
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ISBN:076952415X
9780769524153
DOI:10.1109/WI.2005.151