Age and Geographic Inferences of the LiveJournal Social Network Export

@incollection{citeulike:3025219, abstract = {Online social networks are often a by-product of blogging and other online media sites on the Internet. Services such as LiveJournal allow their users to specify who their ” friends” are, and thus a social network is formed. Some users choose not to disclose personal information which their friends list. This paper will explore the relationship between users with the intent of being able to make a prediction of a users age and country of residence based on the information given by their friends on this social network.}, author = {Mackinnon, Ian and Warren, Robert}, citeulike-article-id = {3025219}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73133-7_14}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-73133-7_14}, journal = {Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues, and New Directions}, keywords = {age, blogs, homophily, inference, livejournal, location, privacy, socialnetworks}, pages = {176--178}, posted-at = {2008-07-21 19:53:41}, priority = {2}, title = {Age and Geographic Inferences of the LiveJournal Social Network}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73133-7_14}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:3025219 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3025219 N2 - Online social networks are often a by-product of blogging and other online media sites on the Internet. Services such as LiveJournal allow their users to specify who their “friends” are, and thus a social network is formed. Some users choose not to disclose personal information which their friends list. This paper will explore the relationship between users with the intent of being able to make a prediction of a users age and country of residence based on the information given by their friends on this social network. JF - Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues, and New Directions EP - 178 TI - Age and Geographic Inferences of the LiveJournal Social Network SP - 176 KW - age KW - blogs KW - homophily KW - inference KW - livejournal KW - location KW - privacy KW - socialnetworks AU - Mackinnon, Ian AU - Warren, Robert PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73133-7_14 ER -