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The spread of media content through blogs

Authors: Meeyoung Cha, Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez, Hamed Haddadi

Published in: Social Network Analysis and Mining | Issue 3/2012

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Blogs are a popular way to share personal journals, discuss matters of public opinion, pursue collaborative conversations, and aggregate content on similar topics. Blogs can be also used to disseminate new content and novel ideas to communities of interest. In this paper, we present an analysis of the topological structure and the patterns of popular media content that is shared in blogs. By analyzing 8.7 million posts of 1.1 million blogs across 15 major blog hosting sites, we find that the network structure of blogs is “less social” compared to other online social networks: most links are unidirectional and the network is sparsely connected. The type of content that was popularly shared on blogs was surprisingly different from that from the mainstream media: user generated content, often in the form of videos or photos, was the most common type of content disseminated in blogs. The user-generated content showed interesting viral-spreading patterns within blogs. Topical content such as news and political commentary spreads quickly by the hour and then quickly disappears, while non-topical content such as music and entertainment propagates slowly over a much long period of time.

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Title: The spread of media content through blogs
Authors: Meeyoung Cha
Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez
Hamed Haddadi
Publication date: 01-09-2012
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Social Network Analysis and Mining / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1869-5450
Electronic ISSN: 1869-5469
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-011-0040-x

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