Paper Info
Title
Analyzing the impact of events in an online music community
Abstract
The huge popularity of on-line social networking sites has increased the likelihood that locally-relevant events propagate globally throughout the Web. Conversely, real world events captured as digital content on the Web may influence the behavior of these digital social communities. In this work we collected and analyzed event-related data from LastFM, and global volume of searches from GoogleTrends, with the following objectives: (1) to study the event mechanism provided by LastFM, (2) to evaluate the impact of global and local events on system utilization, and (3) to understand the event-related propagation of information over social links. We analyze the impact of LastFM events on the user activity and interests. Our study indicates that half of LastFM events cause an increase of the interest for an artist. However, several peaks of popularity are not associated with LastFM events, while being highly correlated with global volume of Internet searches provided by Google Trends. Finally, our analysis shows that the interest for an artist appears to be disseminated over social links. We find out that there are two factors likely to make a user influential over his friends: the degree of interest and the number of social links.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1989656.1989662
SNS
Keywords
Field
DocType
event-related data,on-line social networking site,online music community,digital content,lastfm event,digital social community,user activity,social link,event-related propagation,global volume,huge popularity,social communication,relational data,social networks,data analysis,social network
World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Social network,Computer science,Popularity,Degree of interest,Digital content,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.51
21
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan M. Tirado1614.54
Daniel Higuero2483.97
Florin Isaila323424.01
Jesús Carretero455269.87