There are quite a few papers about large-scale OSN analysis. You might look at the work of Barabasi, Kleinberg, Kumar, Thelwall, Adamic and Huberman. By now there are probably a number of reviews on this topic. I wrote one as a first year but you don't want to read that. Some papers include: Spertus, E., Sahami, M., and Buyukkokten, O. (2005). Evaluating Similarity Measures: A Large-Scale Study in the Orkut Social Network. In Proceedings of KDD 2005. Heer, J. and Boyd, D. (2005). Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InforViz 2005). Liben-Nowell, D. and Kleinberg, J. (2007). The link-prediction problem for social networks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(7), 1019-1031. Kumar, R., Novak, J., and Tomkins, A. (2006). Structure and Evolution of Online Social Networks. In Proceedings of KDD 2006 (pp. 611-617). Halvey, M. and Keane, M. T. (2007). Exploring Social Dynamics in Online Media Sharing. In Proceedings of WWW 2007. Thelwall, M. (2008). How are Social Network Sites Embedded in the Web? An Exploratory Link Analysis. Cybermetrics: International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics, ISSN 1137, 5019(12), 1. Adamic, L., Buyukkokten, O., and Adar, E. (2003). A Social Network Caught in the Web. First Monday, 8(6). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_6/adamic/index.html Adamic, L. and Adar, E. (2005). How to Search a Social Network. Social Networks, 27(3), 187-203. Adamic, L. and Adar, E. (2003). Friends and Neighbors on the Web. First Monday, 8(6). Huberman, B. and Adamic, L. (2004). Information Dynamics in the Networked World. In Ben-Naim, E., F. H. and Toroczaki, Z. (Eds.), Complex Networks (pp. 371-398). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Andrew Long wrote:

Hi Luca -

You may want to talk to Valdis Krebs at: http://www.orgnet.com/ about SNA of large social networks. In fact she has software to do this kind of thing.

Kind regards Andrew

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: -----Original Message----- : From: Luca Rossi [mailto:luca.rossi@uniurb.it] : Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 10:48 p.m. : To: air-l; denrall : Subject: [Air-L] Automated analysis of large social network : : Dear all, : : I'm working on a research project aimed to develop a software tool : able to map and analyze how social relations are reshaped on Facebook. : I was wondering if you were aware of any paper or book about large : social network analysis (preferably automated). I'm not thinking about : small scale SN analysis but about large (or very large) SN. At the : same time are you aware of any research based on the analysis of large : quantities of User generated contents? (blog entries or youtube videos : etc.). : : thank you all : : Luca : : -- : Luca Rossi : LaRiCA - Advanced Communication Laboratory : Faculty of Sociology - "Carlo Bo" University, Urbino : luca.rossi@soc.uniurb.it : T. +39 0722 305726 F. +39 0722 305727 : http://larica-virtual.soc.uniurb.it/redline

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