Social Reader: Following social networks in the wilds of the blogophere

Adams, Brett; Phung, Dinh; Venkatesh, Svetha

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Adams, Brett

Phung, Dinh

Venkatesh, Svetha

Date

2009

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Conference Paper

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Adams, Brett and Phung, Dinh and Venkatesh, Svetha. 2009. Social Reader: Following social networks in the wilds of the blogophere, in Wen Gao and Yong Rui and Alan Hanjalic and Changsheng Xu and Eckehard G. Steinbach and Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik and Michelle X. Zhou (ed), WSM 2009, Oct 23 2009. Beijing, China: ACM.

Source Title

The first ACM SIGMM workshop on social media in conjunction with ACM multimedia

Source Conference

WSM 2009

Additional URLs

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1631144.1631159

ISBN

9781605587592

Faculty

School of Science and Computing

Department of Computing

Faculty of Science and Engineering

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4428

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

The social interactions manifest in blogs by the network of comments left by owners and readers are an under-used resource, both for blog pundits and industry. We present a web-based feed reader that renders these relationships with a graph representation, and enables exploration by displaying people and blogs who are proximate to a user's network. Social Reader is an example of Casual Information Visualization, and aims to help the user understand and explore blog-based social networks in a daily, real-life setting. Asix week study of the software involving 20 users confirmed the usefulness of the novel visual display, via a quantitative analysis of use logs, and an exit survey