TY - GEN

T1 - Do ordinary bloggers really differ from blog celebrities?

AU - Koltsova, Olessia

AU - Koltcov, Sergei

AU - Alexeeva, Svetlana

PY - 2014/1/1

Y1 - 2014/1/1

N2 - In this paper we describe structural and topical properties of "ordinary" blogs versus "popular" blogs. Using the complete directory of the Russian language LiveJournal, we sample both groups and show that the main difference between them is in the volume of posting activity and of commenting feedback and in the skewedness of respective distributions. No substantial differences in topical structure obtained with the LDA algorithm are found, which suggests that ordinary bloggers do not hold specific vision of topic salience and do not set their own "grassroots" agendas. Copyright © 2014 ACM.

AB - In this paper we describe structural and topical properties of "ordinary" blogs versus "popular" blogs. Using the complete directory of the Russian language LiveJournal, we sample both groups and show that the main difference between them is in the volume of posting activity and of commenting feedback and in the skewedness of respective distributions. No substantial differences in topical structure obtained with the LDA algorithm are found, which suggests that ordinary bloggers do not hold specific vision of topic salience and do not set their own "grassroots" agendas. Copyright © 2014 ACM.

KW - Blogger

KW - Live journal

KW - Public opinion

KW - Topic modeling

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904479858&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/2615569.2615675

DO - 10.1145/2615569.2615675

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:84904479858

SP - 166

EP - 170

BT - WebSci 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference

Y2 - 24 June 2014 through 26 June 2014

ER -