Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1081903, abstract = {Beyond serving as online diaries, weblogs have evolved into a complex social structure, one which is in many ways ideal for the study of the propagation of information. As weblog authors discover and republish information, we are able to use the existing link structure of blogspace to track its flow. Where the path by which it spreads is ambiguous, we utilize a novel inference scheme that takes advantage of data describing historical, repeating patterns of "infection." Our paper describes this technique as well as a visualization system that allows for the graphical tracking of information flow.}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Adar, Eytan and Adamic, Lada A.}, booktitle = {WI '05: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence}, citeulike-article-id = {1081903}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1092473}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2005.151}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1517844}, doi = {10.1109/WI.2005.151}, isbn = {0-7695-2415-X}, journal = {Web Intelligence, 2005. Proceedings. The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on}, keywords = {information-asymmetries, information-flows, information-propagation, visualizing}, pages = {207--214}, posted-at = {2009-07-18 21:38:50}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2005.151}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1081903 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1081903 N2 - Beyond serving as online diaries, weblogs have evolved into a complex social structure, one which is in many ways ideal for the study of the propagation of information. As weblog authors discover and republish information, we are able to use the existing link structure of blogspace to track its flow. Where the path by which it spreads is ambiguous, we utilize a novel inference scheme that takes advantage of data describing historical, repeating patterns of "infection." Our paper describes this technique as well as a visualization system that allows for the graphical tracking of information flow. JF - Web Intelligence, 2005. Proceedings. The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on SN - 0-7695-2415-X AD - Washington, DC, USA EP - 214 TI - Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace PB - IEEE Computer Society T2 - WI '05: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence SP - 207 KW - information-asymmetries KW - information-flows KW - information-propagation KW - visualizing AU - Adar, Eytan AU - Adamic, Lada PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2005.151 ER -