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The aim is to understand how social media influences content creation and community interactions.

September 1, 2008Open Access

The Information Ecology of Social Media and Online Communities

Key Points

The aim is to understand how social media influences content creation and community interactions.
Analyzed structures of social media platforms like blogs and wikis.
Developed systems to identify spam blogs and track opinions.
Utilized models to detect influential bloggers and trust relationships.
Identified spam blogs with high accuracy using network models.
Detected communities of interest through shared connections and interactions.
Recognized influential bloggers who shape discussions within networks.

Abstract

Social media systems such as weblogs, photo‐ and link‐sharing sites, wikis, and online forums are currently thought to produce up to one third of new web content. One thing that sets these “web 2.0” sites apart from traditional web pages and resources is that they are intertwined with other forms of networked data. Their standard hyperlinks are enriched by social networks, comments, trackbacks, advertisements, tags, RDF data, and metadata. We describe recent work on building systems that use models of the blogosphere to recognize spam blogs, find opinions on topics, identify communities of interest, derive trust relationships, and detect influential bloggers.

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