Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2007-08-12
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
17 pages, 10 figures, to be published in International Journal on WWW/Internet
Scientific paper
The many-to-many social communication activity on the popular technology-news website Slashdot has been studied. We have concentrated on the dynamics of message production without considering semantic relations and have found regular temporal patterns in the reaction time of the community to a news-post as well as in single user behavior. The statistics of these activities follow log-normal distributions. Daily and weekly oscillatory cycles, which cause slight variations of this simple behavior, are identified. A superposition of two log-normal distributions can account for these variations. The findings are remarkable since the distribution of the number of comments per users, which is also analyzed, indicates a great amount of heterogeneity in the community. The reader may find surprising that only a few parameters allow a detailed description, or even prediction, of social many-to-many information exchange in this kind of popular public spaces.
Blat Josep
Gomez Vicenc
Kaltenbrunner Andreas
López Vicente
Meza Rodrigo
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