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Sun, 19 Sep 2004

Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up"
The members of the BROG project are pleased to announce preprint availability of our paper, Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up". The final paper will be published in the Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, January 2005. The correct citation for the final paper should be as follows: Susan C. Herring, Inna Kouper, John C. Paolillo, Lois Ann Scheidt, Michael Tyworth, Peter Welsch, Elijah Wright, and Ning Yu. (2005). Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up". Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. Abstract

The "blogosphere" has been claimed to be a densely interconnected conversation, with bloggers linking to other bloggers, referring to them in their entries, and posting comments on each other's blogs. Most such characterizations have privileged a subset of popular blogs, known as the 'A-list.' This study empirically investigates the extent to which, and in what patterns, blogs are interconnected, taking as its point of departure randomly-selected blogs. Quantitative social network analysis, visualization of link patterns, and qualitative analysis of references and comments in pairs of reciprocally-linked blogs show that A-list blogs are overrepresented and central in the network, although other groupings of blogs are more densely interconnected. At the same time, a majority of blogs link sparsely or not at all to other blogs in the sample, suggesting that the blogosphere is partially interconnected and sporadically conversational.

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