I'm in the process of completing my thesis on the development of different social roles in usenet, and am trying to find some demographic statistics to shed some light on my qualitative findings. More specifically, I'm interested in knowing how many newsgroups are in existence (with worldwide distribution), how many distinct people participate in these groups, and what the gender balance is. If anyone knows of a source for such statistics and could point me to it, I would appreciate it. Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott A. Golder golder@fas.harvard.edu http://www.scottgolder.net
Scott, Marc Smith of Microsoft has a great tool called Netscan which may allow you to do some of this: http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/ i think he is also allowing for a webservices interface also check out the book he co-edited with Kollock --> communities in cyberspace. hth K =============================================== Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project e-mail: lakhani@mit.edu voice: 617-851-1224 fax: 617-344-0403 http://opensource.mit.edu http://freesoftware.mit.edu http://mit.edu/lakhani/www
Hi Folks - I am taking a graduate Stats course - "Time Series Analysis" - and I would like to incorporate my own Internet research interests for my final paper. I am looking for any Internet data (use, access, etc) that has monthly tracking. I believe I need approximately 30 intervals for the analysis - so obviously I cannot do this in 'years' for Internet research. If you have any suggestions, please email me at tkennedy@netwomen.ca Thanks in advance. Tracy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracy L.M. Kennedy Graduate Department of Sociology University of Toronto www.netwomen.ca tkennedy@netwomen.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Scott, To add to Karim's response, Marc Smith has a chapter in Communities in Cyberspace called "Invisible crowds in cyberspace" that maps some demographics of Usenet. Janet A. --- "Scott A. Golder" <golder@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
I'm in the process of completing my thesis on the development of different social roles in usenet, and am trying to find some demographic statistics to shed some light on my qualitative findings.
More specifically, I'm interested in knowing how many newsgroups are in existence (with worldwide distribution), how many distinct people participate in these groups, and what the gender balance is.
If anyone knows of a source for such statistics and could point me to it, I would appreciate it.
Scott
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Thanks to everyone who had recommendations -- every single one recommended MSR's Netscan. I'd previously known about it, but thought it had more data on individuals and individual groups than about usenet as a whole. So I'll keep digging for those larger-scope statistics, and will report back if anything useful comes up. Scott On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Scott A. Golder wrote: : :I'm in the process of completing my thesis on the development of different :social roles in usenet, and am trying to find some demographic statistics :to shed some light on my qualitative findings. : :More specifically, I'm interested in knowing how many newsgroups are in :existence (with worldwide distribution), how many distinct people :participate in these groups, and what the gender balance is. : :If anyone knows of a source for such statistics and could point me to it, I :would appreciate it. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott A. Golder golder@fas.harvard.edu http://www.scottgolder.net
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