Social reader: following social networks in the wilds of the blogosphere

Authors:
Brett Adams;Dinh Phung;Svetha Venkatesh
Affiliations:
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia;Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia;Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
Venue:
WSM '09 Proceedings of the first SIGMM workshop on Social media
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The social interactions manifest in blogs by the network of comments left by owners and readers are an under-used resource, both for blog pundits and industry. We present a web-based feed reader that renders these relationships with a graph representation, and enables exploration by displaying people and blogs who are proximate to a user's network. Social Reader is an example of Casual Information Visualization, and aims to help the user understand and explore blog-based social networks in a daily, real-life setting. A six week study of the software involving 20 users confirmed the usefulness of the novel visual display, via a quantitative analysis of use logs, and an exit survey.