Kujawski, B. and Abell, Peter (2011) Virtual communities?: the Middle East revolutions at the Guardian forum: comment is free. European Physical Journal B, 83 (4). pp. 525-529. ISSN 1434-6028
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We investigate the possibility of virtual community formation in an online social network under a rapid increase of activity of members and newcomers. The evolution is studied of the activity of online users at the Guardian - Comment Is Free forum - covering topics related to the Middle East turmoil during the period of 1st of January 2010 to the 28th of March 2011. Despite a threefold upsurge of forum users and the formation of a giant component, the main network characteristics, i.e. degree and weight distribution and clustering coefficient, remained almost unchanged.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.springerlink.com/content/1434-6028/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2011 11:08 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 23:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/39645 |
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