Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Yana Volkovich
Barcelona Media Innovation Center, Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona Media Innovation Center, ,
, 16 , 2013
Acknowledgment
Barcelona Media Innovation Center carries out applied research focused on the needs of the Media and Communications industry in Spain and Brazil Social Media group
Pablo Aragn Karolin Kappler* Andreas Kaltenbrunner Jessica G. Neff* David Laniado
Network of objects
Wikipedia
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Biographical Social networks Is history made by great man? or is great man made by history?
undoubtedly social connections shape history
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Questions:
1. 2. 3. 4. Who are the most central characters in these networks? Do culture related peculiarities exist? Which cultures are more similar? What is the shared knowledge about connections between persons across cultures?
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low clustering: with exception for Chinese c=0.17 two persons are rarely mutually connected: parasocial interactions one-sided interpersonal relationships in which one part knows a great deal about the other, but the other does not a person is influenced by the works of somebody who died decades before
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What is the shared knowledge about connections between persons across cultures?
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Most central persons unveil interesting peculiarities about the language communities
Networks are more similar for geographically or linguistically closer communities
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Disclaimer No central register User generated data (only 30% of reciprocal connections) No guarantee that the dataset is complete
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UK
Russia Poland Japan Italy China Ukraine Sweden Norway Spain Finland Brazil Mexico Canada Romania Belgium the Netherlands
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An evidence of the Death of Distance (F. Cairncross The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing our Lives)
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Discussion trees
Slashdot Wikipedia
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Discussion trees
Number of users involved Number of chains of length >= 3, or consecutive replies between two users example chain of length 3: A B A good indicator of conflictive discussions
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Article discussions categorisation [structural differences among discussions from different macro-categories ]
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conservative and liberal political blogs primarily link to other blogs with their same political orientation (Adamic L, Glance N; The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: Divided they blog, 2005)
people tend to read blogs that reinforce, rather than challenge, their political beliefs (Lawrence E, Sides J, Farrell H; Self-segregation or deliberation? Blog readership, participation, and polarization in American politics, 2010) strong evidence of political polarization on Twitter (e.g. Aragn P, Kappler K, Kaltenbrunner A, Laniado D, Volkovich Y; Communication Dynamics in Twitter during Political Campaigns: the Case of the 2011 Spanish National Election, 2013)
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conservative ideology: This user is pro-life, This user supports LEGAL immigration, and this user thinks the global warming issue has been immensely exaggerated liberal ideology: This user supports the legalization of same-sex marriage, This user is pro-choice, and This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share
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Cross-party interactions
Editors appear to be equally likely to engage conversations with users from the other party as with users from the same party
Levels of conflict are high both within and across parties when the discussion threads dealt with political or other potentially controversial topics
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References
J.G. Neff, D. Laniado, K. Kappler, Y. Volkovich, P. Aragon, and A. Kaltenbrunner; Jointly they edit: examining the impact of community identification on political interaction in Wikipedia.; in PLOS ONE, 2013 A. Kaltenbrunner, P.Aragon, D. Laniado, and Y. Volkovich; Not all paths lead to Rome: Analysing the network of sister cities.; in IWSOS2013 P Aragon, A Kaltenbrunner, D Laniado, and Y Volkovich, Biographical Social Networks on Wikipedia: A cross-cultural study of links that made history.; in 8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym2012) D. Laniado, R. Tasso, Y. Volkovich, and A. Kaltenbrunner, When the Wikipedians Talk: Network and Tree Structure of Wikipedia Discussion Pages.; in Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2011); 2011
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Questions?
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