Think different: increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Follow the (slash) dot: effects of feedback on new members in an online community
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Talk to me: foundations for successful individual-group interactions in online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Structure and evolution of online social networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Graph evolution: Densification and shrinking diameters
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Microscopic evolution of social networks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Co-evolution of social and affiliation networks
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Mark my words!: linguistic style accommodation in social media
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Language use as a reflection of socialization in online communities
LSM '11 Proceedings of the Workshop on Languages in Social Media
What's in a hashtag?: content based prediction of the spread of ideas in microblogging communities
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
The life and death of online groups: predicting group growth and longevity
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Echoes of power: language effects and power differences in social interaction
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Churn prediction in new users of Yahoo! answers
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Beefmoves: dissemination, diversity, and dynamics of English borrowings in a German hip hop forum
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
Predicting emerging social conventions in online social networks
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Characterizing and curating conversation threads: expansion, focus, volume, re-entry
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Learning Attitudes and Attributes from Multi-aspect Reviews
ICDM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining
From amateurs to connoisseurs: modeling the evolution of user expertise through online reviews
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
On participation in group chats on Twitter
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
From amateurs to connoisseurs: modeling the evolution of user expertise through online reviews
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Behavior Analysis of Microblog Users Based on Transitions in Posting Activities
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Finding progression stages in time-evolving event sequences
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web
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Vibrant online communities are in constant flux. As members join and depart, the interactional norms evolve, stimulating further changes to the membership and its social dynamics. Linguistic change --- in the sense of innovation that becomes accepted as the norm --- is essential to this dynamic process: it both facilitates individual expression and fosters the emergence of a collective identity. We propose a framework for tracking linguistic change as it happens and for understanding how specific users react to these evolving norms. By applying this framework to two large online communities we show that users follow a determined two-stage lifecycle with respect to their susceptibility to linguistic change: a linguistically innovative learning phase in which users adopt the language of the community followed by a conservative phase in which users stop changing and the evolving community norms pass them by. Building on this observation, we show how this framework can be used to detect, early in a user's career, how long she will stay active in the community. Thus, this work has practical significance for those who design and maintain online communities. It also yields new theoretical insights into the evolution of linguistic norms and the complex interplay between community-level and individual-level linguistic change.