Language Networks on LiveJournal

Author

Herring, Susan C. ; Paolillo, John C. ; Ramos-Vielba, Irene ; Kouper, Inna ; Wright, Elijah ; Stoerger, Sharon ; Scheidt, Lois Ann ; Clark, Benjamin

Author_Institution

Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN

fYear

2007

fDate

Jan. 2007

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

79

Abstract

Language use in 1,000 randomly-selected and 5,025 crawled LiveJournals was analyzed in order to determine the overall language demographics, the robustness of four non-English language networks (Russian, Portuguese, Finnish, and Japanese), and the characteristics of individuals who bridge between different languages on LiveJournal.com. The findings reveal that English dominates globally but not locally, network robustness is determined mostly by population size, and journals that bridge between languages are written by multicultural, multilingual individuals, or else they have broadly accessible content. Implications of these findings for cross-cultural conversation via blogs are considered

Keywords

Web sites; electronic publishing; natural languages; social sciences computing; LiveJournal; Weblogs; cross-cultural conversation; language demography; nonEnglish language network; Blogs; Bridges; Demography; Displays; Internet; Joining processes; Natural languages; Pattern analysis; Robustness; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2007.320

Filename

4076532