Paper Info
Title
Trends of news diffusion in social media based on crowd phenomena
Abstract
Information spreads across social media, bringing heterogeneous social networks interconnected and diffusion patterns varied in different topics of information. Studying such cross-population diffusion in various context helps us understand trends of information diffusion in a more accurate and consistent way. In this study, we focus on real-world news diffusion across online social systems such as mainstream news (News), social networking sites (SNS), and blogs (Blog), and we analyze behavioral patterns of the systems in terms of activity, reactivity, and heterogeneity. We found that News is the most active, SNS is the most reactive, and Blog is the most persistent, which governs time-evolving heterogeneity of these systems. Finally, we interpret the discovered crowd phenomena from various angles using our previous model-free and model-driven approaches, showing that the strength and directionality of influence reflect the behavioral patterns of the systems in news diffusion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2567948.2579325
WWW (Companion Volume)
Keywords
Field
DocType
diffusion pattern,real-world news diffusion,social media,information diffusion,news diffusion,online social system,mainstream news,crowd phenomenon,heterogeneous social network,behavioral pattern,cross-population diffusion
Behavioral pattern,World Wide Web,Social network,Social media,Computer science,Social system,Mainstream
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.50
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Minkyoung Kim18511.01
David Newth27722.00
Peter Christen31697107.21