Analysis of Opinion Leader in On-Line Communities
- Received Date: 2007-09-07
- Publish Date: 2007-12-15
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Key words:
- cluster /
- information communication /
- on-line community /
- opinion leader /
- small-world network
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate an online forum and construct a social network with the replying relations between comments mapped to the comment authors' relations. We analyze the network's feature and apply the statistical physics methods to this complex network research. Then we validate its characteristics of small world networks and successfully find out the opinion leaders in on-line community based on small-world network.
Citation: | GAO Jun-bo, YANG Jing. Analysis of Opinion Leader in On-Line Communities[J]. Journal of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2007, 36(6): 1249-1252. |