Analysis of roles and groups in blogosphere

TL;DR

This paper introduces user roles in social media based on influence and cooperation, analyzing group characteristics and classifying groups by user role distribution to understand social dynamics.

Contribution

It presents a novel framework for identifying user roles and analyzing group structures in the blogosphere based on influence and cooperativeness.

Findings

Different user roles are characterized by influence and cooperativeness.

Groups are classified based on the distribution of user roles.

Insights into social structure and group dynamics in blogosphere.

Abstract

In the paper different roles of users in social media, taking into consideration their strength of influence and different degrees of cooperativeness, are introduced. Such identified roles are used for the analysis of characteristics of groups of strongly connected entities. The different classes of groups, considering the distribution of roles of users belonging to them, are presented and discussed.