TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling and visualizing information propagation in a micro-blogging platform
AU - Ho, Chien Tung
AU - Li, Cheng Te
AU - Lin, Shou De
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Micro-blogging is a type of social networking service that has become ubiquitous in Web 2.0 era. Micro-blogs allows bloggers to exchange information, discuss ideas, and share experiences with friends or even strangers with similar interests. In this paper, we try to identify ways to measure how information is propagated in micro-blogs. More specifically, we consider the following issues. (1) How to quantify a person's capability to disseminate ideas via a micro-blog. (2) How to measure the extent of propagation of a concept in a micro-blog. (3) How to demonstrate and visualize information propagation in a microblog. We propose methods to effectively measure each user's ability to disseminate information via micro-blogs. The design of the measure considers three factors: (a) the number of people influenced; (b) the speed of propagation; and (c) the geographic distance of the propagation. We also provide an online demonstration micro-blog system that allows the users to explore the information propagation. The system shows the propagation paths and social graphs, influence scores, timelines, and geographical information among people for the user-given terms.
AB - Micro-blogging is a type of social networking service that has become ubiquitous in Web 2.0 era. Micro-blogs allows bloggers to exchange information, discuss ideas, and share experiences with friends or even strangers with similar interests. In this paper, we try to identify ways to measure how information is propagated in micro-blogs. More specifically, we consider the following issues. (1) How to quantify a person's capability to disseminate ideas via a micro-blog. (2) How to measure the extent of propagation of a concept in a micro-blog. (3) How to demonstrate and visualize information propagation in a microblog. We propose methods to effectively measure each user's ability to disseminate information via micro-blogs. The design of the measure considers three factors: (a) the number of people influenced; (b) the speed of propagation; and (c) the geographic distance of the propagation. We also provide an online demonstration micro-blog system that allows the users to explore the information propagation. The system shows the propagation paths and social graphs, influence scores, timelines, and geographical information among people for the user-given terms.
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U2 - 10.1109/ASONAM.2011.37
DO - 10.1109/ASONAM.2011.37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052755601
SN - 9780769543758
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2011
SP - 328
EP - 335
BT - Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2011
T2 - 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2011
Y2 - 25 July 2011 through 27 July 2011
ER -