Digging in the digg social news website

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1163-1175

  Tang, Siyu ^a   Blenn, Norbert ^a   Doerr, Christian ^a   Van Mieghem, Piet ^a  

^a Department of Microelectronics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Content dissemination; friendship relations; social media website; user characteristics

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE USERS; CONTENT DISSEMINATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FRIENDSHIP RELATIONS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NEWS AGGREGATORS; RANDOM USERS; SERVICE INTERFACES; SHORT PERIODS; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; USER BEHAVIORS; USER CHARACTERISTICS;

PUBLISHING; WEBSITES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 80052947777     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2011.2159706     Document Type: Article

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