Definition of on-line community through homophily
Hello, everybody. I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through common itnerests. My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in LiveJournals are not such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of interaction. So that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of taste and part of self-presentation in their profiles. In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one of such communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of-LiveJournal-FOAF-St...). Their data show that there is no correlation between interests and friends and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, that is my working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some sources. I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another approach. -- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html Graduate Student in Sociology at State University - Higher School of Economics http://www.hse.ru/eng
hello Alex, I consider homophily on blogs in the article described below. If you want a "review copy" just send me a note offlist and I'll push you a pdf. thanks, -r http://abs.sagepub.com/content/49/4/575.short Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium Abstract News blogs (Web logs dedicated to the dissemination of news) are becoming the default political news source for a growing number of well-educated and apparently well-informed segments of the population. Bloggers and blog advocates suggest that blogs, online lists, and their various analogs offer something different and potentially unique to the 21st-century citizen. At their best, blogs represent a new form of open-sourced/open-access partisan press that promises to bring McLuhan’s tribal context one step closer to fulfillment. At their worst, blogs represent the latest form of mass-mediated triviality and celebrity spectacle, with the potential to create and sustain insulated enclaves of intolerance predicated on little more than personal illusion, rumor, and politically motivated innuendo. Employing first a medium theoretic and then a symbolic interactionist lens, the present study considers some of the key structural features of news blogs and discusses some of the personal, social, and political significances of blogs and blogging. ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Semenov Alexander [semenoffalex@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 4:46 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily Hello, everybody. I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through common itnerests. My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in LiveJournals are not such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of interaction. So that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of taste and part of self-presentation in their profiles. In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one of such communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of-LiveJournal-FOAF-St...). Their data show that there is no correlation between interests and friends and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, that is my working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some sources. I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another approach. -- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html Graduate Student in Sociology at State University - Higher School of Economics http://www.hse.ru/eng _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
I have published a social network informed theoretical position on what forms 'crowds' vs 'communities'. The basic proposition is that crowds are tied by a coorientation to a subject of common interest, communities are tied by this coorientation, but also heavily by attention to others in the community. Be interested in what you find from your work. This is one version of the idea: Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan. 2009). Crowds and communities: Light and heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. Available via the UIUC institutional repository at: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/9457. I'm surprised you'd think Live Journal is not a community in that sense. Try a dissertation by Claudia Rebaza that shows the internal recognition of others and interaction through reading and commentary on writings. (Re one community within LiveJournal). Rebaza, C. (2009). The Technological Continuum of Coterie Publication: Fan Fiction Writing Communities on LiveJournal. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois. /Caroline ---- Original message ----
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:46:52 +0400 From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex@googlemail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Hello, everybody. I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through common itnerests. My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in LiveJournals are not such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of interaction. So that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of taste and part of self-presentation in their profiles. In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one of such communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of- LiveJournal-FOAF-Structure-and-Change-from-2004-to-2005). Their data show that there is no correlation between interests and friends and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, that is my working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some sources. I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another approach. -- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
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Caroline Haythornthwaite I will be using this @illinois email for a few more months for projects started at UIUC. However, if your email is in relation to my position as Director, SLAIS, UBC please use haythorn@interchange.ubc.ca
Hello, Caroline! I didn't mean entire LiveJournal, only one of its communities. My case is community "sociolog" and the problem is that during 2 huge scandals in russian sociology, which mostly took part in blogosphere (in Russia blogosphere = LiveJournal) this community wasn't the main place of discussion. So, my arguement is that community should be defined by interaction, not by some declarative features like interests, profiles, communities, etc. Best regards, Alexander. 2010/10/6 Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@illinois.edu>
I have published a social network informed theoretical position on what forms 'crowds' vs 'communities'. The basic proposition is that crowds are tied by a coorientation to a subject of common interest, communities are tied by this coorientation, but also heavily by attention to others in the community. Be interested in what you find from your work. This is one version of the idea:
Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan. 2009). Crowds and communities: Light and heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. Available via the UIUC institutional repository at: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/9457.
I'm surprised you'd think Live Journal is not a community in that sense. Try a dissertation by Claudia Rebaza that shows the internal recognition of others and interaction through reading and commentary on writings. (Re one community within LiveJournal).
Rebaza, C. (2009). The Technological Continuum of Coterie Publication: Fan Fiction Writing Communities on LiveJournal. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois.
/Caroline
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:46:52 +0400 From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex@googlemail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Hello, everybody. I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through common itnerests. My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in LiveJournals are not such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of interaction. So that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of taste and part of self-presentation in their profiles. In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one of such communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of- LiveJournal-FOAF-Structure-and-Change-from-2004-to-2005). Their data show that there is no correlation between interests and friends and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, that is my working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some sources. I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another approach. -- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
I will be using this @illinois email for a few more months for projects started at UIUC.
However, if your email is in relation to my position as Director, SLAIS, UBC please use haythorn@interchange.ubc.ca
-- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html Graduate Student in Sociology at State University - Higher School of Economics http://www.hse.ru/eng
Hi, perhaps you have already seen the Digital Icons publications that focus on the post-Soviet internet, but here is a link to a particularly good edition that deals with social networking: http://www.digitalicons.org/ru/issue02/ Please post when you publish, I would be interested in seeing your work as I am (trying to) write a book about the Russian internet. Sincerely Sarah Sarah Oates Professor of Political Communication School of Social and Political Sciences Adam Smith Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8RT Email: sarah.oates@glasgow.ac.uk Website with publications for free download: www.media-politics.com <http://www.media-politics.com/> Telephone: (0)141 330 5124 The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 ________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Semenov Alexander Sent: Thu 07/10/2010 10:30 To: Caroline Haythornthwaite Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily Hello, Caroline! I didn't mean entire LiveJournal, only one of its communities. My case is community "sociolog" and the problem is that during 2 huge scandals in russian sociology, which mostly took part in blogosphere (in Russia blogosphere = LiveJournal) this community wasn't the main place of discussion. So, my arguement is that community should be defined by interaction, not by some declarative features like interests, profiles, communities, etc. Best regards, Alexander. 2010/10/6 Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@illinois.edu>
I have published a social network informed theoretical position on what forms 'crowds' vs 'communities'. The basic proposition is that crowds are tied by a coorientation to a subject of common interest, communities are tied by this coorientation, but also heavily by attention to others in the community. Be interested in what you find from your work. This is one version of the idea:
Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan. 2009). Crowds and communities: Light and heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. Available via the UIUC institutional repository at: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/9457.
I'm surprised you'd think Live Journal is not a community in that sense. Try a dissertation by Claudia Rebaza that shows the internal recognition of others and interaction through reading and commentary on writings. (Re one community within LiveJournal).
Rebaza, C. (2009). The Technological Continuum of Coterie Publication: Fan Fiction Writing Communities on LiveJournal. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois.
/Caroline
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:46:52 +0400 From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex@googlemail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Hello, everybody. I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through common itnerests. My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in LiveJournals are not such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of interaction. So that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of taste and part of self-presentation in their profiles. In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one of such communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of- LiveJournal-FOAF-Structure-and-Change-from-2004-to-2005). Their data show that there is no correlation between interests and friends and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, that is my working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some sources. I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another approach. -- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
I will be using this @illinois email for a few more months for projects started at UIUC.
However, if your email is in relation to my position as Director, SLAIS, UBC please use haythorn@interchange.ubc.ca
-- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html Graduate Student in Sociology at State University - Higher School of Economics http://www.hse.ru/eng _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Quite agree - that an online site is a community is a hypothesis to be tested. /Caroline ---- Original message ----
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:30:06 +0400 From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily To: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@illinois.edu> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Hello, Caroline! I didn't mean entire LiveJournal, only one of its communities. My case is community "sociolog" and the problem is that during 2 huge scandals in russian sociology, which mostly took part in blogosphere (in Russia blogosphere = LiveJournal) this community wasn't the main place of discussion. So, my arguement is that community should be defined by interaction, not by some declarative features like interests, profiles, communities, etc. Best regards, Alexander. 2010/10/6 Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@illinois.edu>
I have published a social network informed theoretical position on what forms 'crowds' vs 'communities'. The basic proposition is that crowds are tied by a coorientation to a subject of common interest, communities are tied by this coorientation, but also heavily by attention to others in the community. Be interested in what you find from your work. This is one version of the idea:
Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan. 2009). Crowds and communities: Light and heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. Available via the UIUC institutional repository at: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/9457.
I'm surprised you'd think Live Journal is not a community in that sense. Try a dissertation by Claudia Rebaza that shows the internal recognition of others and interaction through reading and commentary on writings. (Re one community within LiveJournal).
Rebaza, C. (2009). The Technological Continuum of Coterie Publication: Fan Fiction Writing Communities on LiveJournal. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois.
/Caroline
---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:46:52 +0400 >From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex@googlemail.com> >Subject: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily >To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org > >Hello, everybody. >I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through common >itnerests. >My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in LiveJournals are not >such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of interaction. So >that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of taste and part of >self-presentation in their profiles. >In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one of such >communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( >http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of- LiveJournal-FOAF-Structure-and-Change-from-2004-to-2005). >Their data show that there is no correlation between interests and friends >and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, that is my >working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some sources. >I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another approach. >-- >Alexander Semenov. >MA student >Faculty of Sociology >Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) >http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html > >Graduate Student in Sociology at >State University - Higher School of Economics >http://www.hse.ru/eng >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite
I will be using this @illinois email for a few more months for projects started at UIUC.
However, if your email is in relation to my position as Director, SLAIS, UBC please use haythorn@interchange.ubc.ca
-- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
Graduate Student in Sociology at State University - Higher School of Economics http://www.hse.ru/eng
Caroline Haythornthwaite I will be using this @illinois email for a few more months for projects started at UIUC. However, if your email is in relation to my position as Director, SLAIS, UBC please use haythorn@interchange.ubc.ca
Hi all I'm doing a project that involves (amongst other things) comparing data from emails and I am looking into software that might help me with my analysis, which will involve qualitative and a small amount of quantitative research, though some of the quantitative stuff is so basic I can do it in Outlook! I had Deduce recommended to me, but I can't find a link to it anywhere - does anyone know how I can find it? Would Nvivo also be useful - and does anyone know of any other tools that I can utilise? Many thanks Ruth Deller Sheffield Hallam University
Hello, Ruth. That depends on what do you mean by qualitative analysis. Nvivo is good and it's based on the methodology of "grounded theory". It is quite easy to start using. There is also Atlas.ti, but this one seemed too advanced for me. I think, that these two are main software for qualitative analysis of texts. Best regards, Alexander. 2010/10/8 Deller, Ruth A <R.A.Deller@shu.ac.uk>
Hi all
I'm doing a project that involves (amongst other things) comparing data from emails and I am looking into software that might help me with my analysis, which will involve qualitative and a small amount of quantitative research, though some of the quantitative stuff is so basic I can do it in Outlook!
I had Deduce recommended to me, but I can't find a link to it anywhere - does anyone know how I can find it?
Would Nvivo also be useful - and does anyone know of any other tools that I can utilise?
Many thanks
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I use SAS at work for quantitative analysis and they have something called text miner. I know nothing about it though other than to guess it is very expensive although SAS is provided to students free at both universities in my city. Peter Timusk at571@ncf.ca ptimusk@sympatico.ca web: www.crystalcomputing.net blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Deller, Ruth A Sent: October-08-10 9:27 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Deduce Qualitative Analysis software? Hi all I'm doing a project that involves (amongst other things) comparing data from emails and I am looking into software that might help me with my analysis, which will involve qualitative and a small amount of quantitative research, though some of the quantitative stuff is so basic I can do it in Outlook! I had Deduce recommended to me, but I can't find a link to it anywhere - does anyone know how I can find it? Would Nvivo also be useful - and does anyone know of any other tools that I can utilise? Many thanks Ruth Deller Sheffield Hallam University _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Hi Ruth, Depending on your programming skills, you might want to have a look to this python module : http://www.nltk.org/ All best, Antoine Mazières http://ant1.cc/ On 08/10/2010 15:27, Deller, Ruth A wrote:
Hi all
I'm doing a project that involves (amongst other things) comparing data from emails and I am looking into software that might help me with my analysis, which will involve qualitative and a small amount of quantitative research, though some of the quantitative stuff is so basic I can do it in Outlook!
I had Deduce recommended to me, but I can't find a link to it anywhere - does anyone know how I can find it?
Would Nvivo also be useful - and does anyone know of any other tools that I can utilise?
Many thanks
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Hi Ruth, I use Atlas.ti, which has a handy export feature of your qualitative data codes into a statistical program like SPSS. Atlas.ti has a learning curve but so does NVivo. Best, ~Jenny Associate Professor Department of Communication Social Science 333 University at Albany, SUNY Albany, NY 12023 518-442-4873 jstromer@albany.edu www.albany.edu/~jstromer Deliberative E-Rulemaking Project: lead.ils.albany.edu
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l- bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Deller, Ruth A Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 9:27 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Deduce Qualitative Analysis software?
Hi all
I'm doing a project that involves (amongst other things) comparing data from emails and I am looking into software that might help me with my analysis, which will involve qualitative and a small amount of quantitative research, though some of the quantitative stuff is so basic I can do it in Outlook!
I had Deduce recommended to me, but I can't find a link to it anywhere - does anyone know how I can find it?
Would Nvivo also be useful - and does anyone know of any other tools that I can utilise?
Many thanks
Ruth Deller Sheffield Hallam University _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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