Dynamics and diversity of online community activities
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Dynamics and diversity of online community activities
Web sites where users create and rate content as well as form networks with other users display long-tailed distributions of user activity. Using data from one such community site, Essembly, we propose and evaluate mechanisms for these distributions that rely only on information actually available to users. For Essembly, we describe the scale-free degree distribution of the social network as a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: EPL (Europhysics Letters)
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/86/38003