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Entertainment industry growing very fast, as an essential pillar, actors become more and more influential. An effective influence model will help investors a lot. In this paper, we propose SPIA influence model, considering actors' both social influence and professional influence. In this way we can choose the most influential actors with no obvious shortcomings. We take Sina Weibo, the largest micro-blogging...
Given a newly posted question on a Question and Answer (Q&A) site, how long will it take until an answer is received? Does response time relate to factors about how the question asker composes their question? If so, what are those factors? With advances in social media and the Web, Q&A sites have become a major source of information for Internet users. Response time of a question is an important...
Despite a rising concern over this emerging global issue, theoretical understanding of the excessive use of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) is lacking in the mainstream IS literature. In this study, we proposed a research model to theoretically explain the development of the excessive use of MMOGs with the positive-negative reinforcement perspective. We tested our research model with 513...
Researchers tend to agree that an increasing quantity of data has caused the complexity and difficulty for information discovery, management and reuse. An essential factor relates to the increasing channels for information sharing. Finding information, especially those meaningful or useful one, that meets ultimate task of user becomes harder then it is used to be. In this research, issues concerning...
In this paper, we propose a system based on hypothesis that when we ask for help from others, 1) the closer people are, the more easy it is to get help, 2) the more simple things are easier to get help with. We carried out a survey to examine the hypothesis. The results show that this hypothesis is correct. Based on this hypothesis, we proposed a social networking service site based on a mobile environment...
This study defines and explores relations between knowledge-seeking and social relationship networks, using data from a popular Q&A social network site. Our theoretical framework draws on Motivation, Common-goods, and Social capital theories to generate an understanding of the interrelationship of the two types of networks. A dataset consisting of 19 months of activity on Q&A Yahoo! Answers...
Online social networking community is an important type of internet service. Large scale social network can be built upon the large quantities of user data kept by social networking community. We model the large scale social network on the live online community and evaluate the user relationship index from the model. We further use the user relationship index in analyzing the user relation data and...
One of the important characteristics of Web2.0 is the collaboration between Web2.0 service providers. They allow users (i.e., providers, developers, consumers) to combine their services. The prerequisite for this collaboration is openness of the Web2.0 service system. Although the Web2.0 technology allows the linking of different heterogeneous Web2.0 services freely, it is only assumed that the Web2...
With rapid spread of acceptance and usage of Social Network Service (SNS, e.g., Facebook, Renren, Myspace), concerns about online information privacy have arisen. This paper explores the instruments of users' privacy concerns in the context of SNS. First, based on the relevant literature review, comparisons among four scales are discussed and necessities of new items are proposed. Then a pilot test...
Today a wide range of Web 2.0 applications (such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, RSS, Podcasts and Wikis) are giving new challenges and opportunities in teaching and learning. The work described here concerns a pilot study to investigate the acceptability and effectiveness of using web 2.0 as an aid to learning. The work focuses on a university course on academic writing skills. The role of Web 2.0 applications...
Social capital broadly refers to the opportunities an individual has by being part of a network of relationships. Recently organizations started deploying internal Enterprise 2.0 platforms and Social Network Sites (SNS) to improve how employees collaborate and work. In this paper we report our analysis of the relationships between social capital and the use of a SNS in a research institute. Data collected...
Internet is quickly becoming one of the most important parts in social life. As such people could pay more attention to the Internet events. However, it is not clear that which psychological factors influence Internet event attitudes. The present research was to investigate the mechanism of how Big-Five personality and regulatory emotional self-efficacy influence the attitude on Internet event. In...
Renren is the most popular social networking site in China which is a real and public platform rather than anonymity BBS and blog. Some recent research has even demonstrated that self-reported personality traits are reflected in personal webpages. In an exploratory study, We analyzed the content of status in Renren which is an update feature on users' main profile page that describe what user is doing...
The virtual unity of real social relationship is not original. Recently, some online games based on social relationship are more and more popular. Thanks to the real social relationship, those special games are interesting and amazing. We took the online games of ldquokaixin-netrdquo (www.kaixin001.com) as an example to study. Those special games are able to turn the real relations of friends to a...
In the last few years, social networking sites (SNSs) have grown rapidly as a new media used by people to create and maintain relationship. Ironically, social network sites are also used to do deviant behaviors, i.e. pornography, racism, predators, and fake profiles. A need then emerges to reduce those deviances. This research tries to recognize the deviants based on their characteristics. Descriptive...
Many efforts are undertaken by people and companies to improve their popularity, growth, and power, the outcomes of which are all expressed as rankings (designated as target rankings). Are these rankings merely the results of its elements' own attributes? In the theory of social network analysis (SNA), the performance and power of actors are usually interpreted as relations and the relational structures...
The convergence of the Internet and ubiquitous technologies offers an unprecedented level of convenience for information collection, accessing, and sharing through mobile devices and Web services. Mobile devices have become increasingly context aware and connected to the Internet, which lowers the barriers for capturing and sharing contextual information (e.g. location and time). Web applications...
Over the recent years, social network analysis has received renewed interest because of the significant increase in the number of users relying on applications based on them. An important criterion for the success of any social-networking based application is the efficiency of search. In this paper, we propose and analyze a method of anycast search based on correlated communities or subgroups, i.e...
Mining core group from a network community is significant for researches on information communication, since the core group impacts greatly on information controlling and information producing in network community. In this paper, we have an empirical study on DONEWS, and our approach to find out the core group involves the following considerations. First, the circumstances of internal link and external...
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