Socio-semantic dynamics in a blog network

Jean-Philippe Cointet (1, 2) , Camille Roth (1, 3)

1 CREA - Centre de recherche en épistémologie appliquée
2 SenS - Sciences en Société
3 CAMS - Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique sociales

The blogosphere can be construed as a knowledge network made of bloggers who are interacting through a social network to share, exchange or produce information. We claim that the social and semantic dimensions are essentially co-determined and propose to investigate the co-evolutionary dynamics of the blogosphere by examining two intertwined issues: first, how does knowledge distribution drive new interactions and thus influence the social network topology? Second, which role structural network properties play in the information circulation in the system? We adopt an empirical standpoint by analyzing the semantic and social activity of a portion of the US political blogosphere, monitored on a period of four months.

Mots clés: social network; diffusion; socio-semantic; blogosphere

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Méthodes et statistiques

Jean-Philippe Cointet, Camille Roth. Socio-semantic dynamics in a blog network. IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-09), Aug 2009, Vancouver, Canada. pp.114-121, ⟨10.1109/CSE.2009.105114⟩. ⟨hal-00416705⟩