Preferential behavior in online groups Export

@inproceedings{Backstrom08, abstract = {Online communities in the form of message boards, listservs, and newsgroups continue to represent a considerable amount of the social activity on the Internet. Every year thousands of groups ourish while others decline into relative obscurity; likewise, millions of members join a new community every year, some of whom will come to manage or moderate the conversation while others simply sit by the sidelines and observe. These processes of group formation, growth, and dissolution are central in social science, and in an online venue they have ramifications for the design and development of community software}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Backstrom, Lars and Kumar, Ravi and Marlow, Cameron and Novak, Jasmine and Tomkins, Andrew}, booktitle = {WSDM '08: Proceedings of the international conference on Web search and web data mining}, citeulike-article-id = {2640791}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1341531.1341549}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1341531.1341549}, doi = {10.1145/1341531.1341549}, isbn = {978-1-59593-927-9}, keywords = {online\_communities}, location = {Palo Alto, California, USA}, pages = {117--128}, posted-at = {2009-09-21 13:51:50}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Preferential behavior in online groups}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1341531.1341549}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - Backstrom08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2640791 N2 - Online communities in the form of message boards, listservs, and newsgroups continue to represent a considerable amount of the social activity on the Internet. Every year thousands of groups ourish while others decline into relative obscurity; likewise, millions of members join a new community every year, some of whom will come to manage or moderate the conversation while others simply sit by the sidelines and observe. These processes of group formation, growth, and dissolution are central in social science, and in an online venue they have ramifications for the design and development of community software CY - Palo Alto, California, USA SN - 978-1-59593-927-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 128 TI - Preferential behavior in online groups PB - ACM T2 - WSDM '08: Proceedings of the international conference on Web search and web data mining SP - 117 KW - online_communities AU - Backstrom, Lars AU - Kumar, Ravi AU - Marlow, Cameron AU - Novak, Jasmine AU - Tomkins, Andrew PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1341531.1341549 ER -