BROG at HICSS

BROG members John Paolillo and Lois Scheidt are on the Big Island of Hawai'i, where they will present "Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis 'From the Bottom Up'" at the 38th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. The presentation will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 6. The paper, co-authored by eight BROG members, has been nominated for a HICSS Best Paper Prize.

Evaluating the popular view that weblogs are highly interlinked and mutually interactive ("conversational"), the paper presents evidence from a hand-coded sample of 5,517 public weblogs that blogs form cliques of dense interconnection in some topic domains but are largely non-interacting. The research, which employed social network analysis, information visualization, and discourse analysis techniques, was carried out during the spring and summer of 2004.

"Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis 'From the Bottom Up'" can be downloaded from the sidebar of this blog.