DocumentCode
2409335
Title
Friendfeed Breaking News: Death of a Public Figure
Author
Magnani, Matteo ; Montesi, Danilo ; Rossi, Luca
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
fYear
2010
fDate
20-22 Aug. 2010
Firstpage
528
Lastpage
533
Abstract
Microblogging sites allow users to post short messages online, offering a reliable way to communicate and to spread information quickly and efficiently; moreover, they can host complex conversational activities. The objectives of this paper are to model how breaking news circulate in a microblogging network, to identify relevant patterns of news propagation and to increase our understanding of the underlying sociological motivations. This study has been conducted on a real social database collected from a well known microblogging site by observing the reactions of its users to a relevant public event.
Keywords
social networking (online); social sciences computing; friendfeed breaking news; microblogging sites; public event; real social database; sociological motivations; Biomedical monitoring; Context; Iron; Media; TV; Twitter; Social network; news propagation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Social Computing (SocialCom), 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on
Conference_Location
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8439-3
Electronic_ISBN
978-0-7695-4211-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SocialCom.2010.83
Filename
5591331
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