The World-Wide-Web as social hypertext
Communications of the ACM
Trawling the Web for emerging cyber-communities
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
On the bursty evolution of blogspace
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
The experienced "sense" of a virtual community: characteristics and processes
ACM SIGMIS Database
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Communications of the ACM - The Blogosphere
Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up"
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 4 - Volume 04
Using Egocentric Networks to Understand Communication
IEEE Internet Computing
Designing and evaluating online communities: research speaks to emerging practice
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Automatic detection of cohesive subgroups within social hypertext: A heuristic approach
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Sense of community among mobile language learners: can blogs support this?
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Users' book-loan behaviors analysis and knowledge dependency mining
WAIM'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web-age information management
Face-to-face contacts at a conference: dynamics of communities and roles
MSM'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Modeling and Mining Ubiquitous Social Media
Identification of Group Changes in Blogosphere
ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
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We examine the problem of identifying, measuring and evaluating communities in blogs. In our approach, we use sense of community (McMillan and Chavis, 1986) and centrality measures derived from social network analysis. We then describe a method for identifying communities in blogs using both sense of community measurement and Social Network Analysis (SNA). We apply this framework to a blog on Canadian independent music. Hypotheses are developed concerning the specific structural properties of social networks formed by blogging relationships and how those properties are related to the sense of community experienced by the participants (authors and readers of the blogs). Finally, we discuss the implications for blog implementation and use.