Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in Slashdot

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 645-654

  Gómez, Vicenç ^a,b   Kaltenbrunner, Andreas ^a,b   López, Vicente ^a,b  

^a Barcelona Media Innovation Center   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bulletin board; H index; Log normal; Online communities; Power law; Radial tree; Social networks; Thread; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERNET; STATISTICAL TESTS; WEBSITES;

H-INDEX; LOG-NORMAL; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; POWER-LAW; RADIAL TREE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; THREAD; WEBLOGS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 52949151777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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