Paper Info
Title
Comparative analysis of articulated and behavioural social networks in a social news sharing website
Abstract
This study analyses and contrasts the explicit (articulated) and implicit (behavioural) social networks on the Spanish Digg-like social news website meneame.net. The explicit network is given in the form of declared but not necessarily bidirectional friendship links; the behavioural network is extracted from conversations through comments to the shared links. These two directed social networks and their intersection are analysed and described in detail, which leads to some important conclusions about user behaviour on link sharing websites and online conversation habits in general. We find that reply interactions are more likely to occur between non-friends and that these interactions are (if bidirectional) also more balanced in the case of non-friends. A k-core decomposition of the networks reveals a fundamental difference in the practice of establishing behavioural and articulated links.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1080/13614568.2011.598192
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
implicit behavioural social network,behavioural social network,explicit network,online conversation habit,behavioural network,fundamental difference,k-core decomposition,bidirectional friendship link,comparative analysis,spanish digg-like social news,social network,important conclusion,social news sharing website,articulated link,social network analysis,social media
News sharing,World Wide Web,Conversation,Social network,Social media,Friendship,Computer science,Social network analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
3
1361-4568
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.44
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Kaltenbrunner161350.64
Gustavo Gonzalez2161.18
Ricard Ruiz De Querol371.50
Yana Volkovich420717.71