The volume of discussion about a product in weblogs has recently been shown to correlate with the product’s financial performance. In this paper, we study whether applying sentiment analysis methods to weblog data results in better correlation than volume only, in the domain of movies. Our main finding is that positive sentiment is indeed a better predictor for movie success when applied to a l...

Bei der Planung des Einsatzes von Weblogs in der Hochschullehre müssen didaktisch-methodische, technische und rechtliche Aspekte beachtet werden. In dem Artikel werden Planungsalternativen zu diesen Aspekten vorgestellt und jeweils Vorund Nachteile diskutiert. Die Umsetzung wird anhand beispielhafter Einsatzszenarien verdeutlicht.

This article intends to be constituted as a reflection about weblogs, while a space in the screen territory for the production of educators’ speech and scenario of the representations constructed by them. Weblogs are understood not only as cyber diaries, but as an extension of the individual identity of the subjects in the cyberspace and publicizing the representations of self and the world the...

An analysis of links among U.S. weblogs is done to examine the interpersonal social network and social connections among U.S. cities. Drawing 4,241 weblogs from the NITLE census dataset that are identified as being located in the United States, this project extracts the outward links of these weblogs and uses them to analyze the relationship between cities. A total of 632 U.S. city/region units...

The stories consumers report and tell in which they use brands as props or anthropomorphic actors increasingly form a key part of personal and community Weblogs.These stories are drama enactments enabling the storytellers to experience powerful myths. The brand stories consumers tell on purchasing-consumption requires a protagonist consumer to experience an “inciting incident” (McKee 2003) that...

Knowledge about human goals has been found to be an important kind of knowledge for a range of challenging problems, such as goal recognition from peoples’ actions or reasoning about human goals. Necessary steps towards conducting such complex tasks involve (i) acquiring a broad range of human goals and (ii) making them accessible by structuring and storing them in a knowledge base. In this wor...