Virtual communities?: the Middle East revolutions at the Guardian forum: comment is free
Kujawski, B. & Abell, P.
(2011).
Virtual communities?: the Middle East revolutions at the Guardian forum: comment is free.
European Physical Journal B,
83(4), 525-529.
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2011-20478-1
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 |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2011 EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Management |
| DOI | 10.1140/epjb/e2011-20478-1 |
| Date Deposited | 18 Nov 2011 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/39645 |
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