Sampling Online Social Networks Using Coupling from the Past

For decades, fans of U.S. soap operas have formed social networks surrounding their shows, and they did so even before the concept entered the vernacular. Soap fans, who started on a geographically local scale and built their communities through grassroots efforts, have found a variety of venues to connect with one another over the past several decades. This study looks at the pre-Internet development of these social networks to show how that trajectory relates to the current online community of soap opera fans. Although several scholars have studied soap opera fandom, few have taken an historical approach at understanding the trajectory of soap fandom, a view especially necessary in an era where online social networks are at the center of audience studies and where cornerstone U.S. soap operas are struggling to retain relevance and audience. To fill this gap, I argue that understanding fan networks today requires looking back to previous methods of fan networking. Soaps' longevity (the youngest U.S. soap is more than 20 years old) and frequency (all U.S. daytime soaps are daily) make them crucial texts in demonstrating how the roots of fan social networks in a pre-Internet era helped shape that fandom's transition onto the Internet, and they also illustrate the continued evolution of these networks as fans move online.

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Drivers and Barriers to Online Social Networks’ Usage

International Journal of Online Marketing ◽

10.4018/ijom.2011010105 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 63-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Riyad Eid ◽

Emrys Hughes

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Online Social Networks ◽

Mail Survey ◽

Academic Literature ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

Although the past years have witnessed growth in online social networks, the underlying factors driving and inhibiting its diffusion are not well understood. This paper presents empirical research that investigates the factors driving and inhibiting the online social networks usage. It gives a brief overview of the academic literature on the diffusion online social networks. The conduct and findings of a mail survey are then reported. The paper concludes that online social networks in general and Facebook in particular will become an extremely important tool in the future, with the drivers overcoming the barriers in influencing the rate. Furthermore, the study has enhanced previous theories related to Facebook, and it offers a platform for further investigations to take shape in light of what has been discussed and analysed.

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Social networks today and their prospects

SCIENTIFIC WORK ◽

10.36719/2663-4619/60/122-125 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 60 (11) ◽

pp. 122-125

Author(s):

Kifayat Aligamat Dolkhanova ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Online Social Networks ◽

Limited Liability ◽

Innovative Technology ◽

The Past ◽

Multimedia Information Systems ◽

Technology Park ◽

Current Perspective ◽

System Functioning ◽

Pedagogical Research

The article describes scientific and pedagogical research, which shows the idea under discussion is a very effective idea. Currently existing control systems have been analyzed and opportunities for the development of information technology in modern computing technologies, the systematic use of software tools, as well as the possibility of the system functioning at a certain level have been identified. Our current perspective is with the rapid growth of human development in social networks, there is a need for analysis, such as networks of influence, taking into account the interaction of network members, the dynamics of ideas. Over the past decade, the development of information and telecommunication technologies, the importance of new types of resources, as well as online social networks has increased significantly as a means of disseminating ideas that affect the behavior of network users. Key words: innovative technology, social information network, ICT, social media, "Multimedia" Information Systems Technology Center, VPN technology, High Technology Park of ANAS Limited Liability Company

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Drivers and Barriers to Online Social Networks’ Usage

Transdisciplinary Marketing Concepts and Emergent Methods for Virtual Environments ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1861-9.ch004 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 41-58

Author(s):

Riyad Eid ◽

Emrys Hughes

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Online Social Networks ◽

Mail Survey ◽

Academic Literature ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

Although the past years have witnessed growth in online social networks, the underlying factors driving and inhibiting its diffusion are not well understood. This paper presents empirical research that investigates the factors driving and inhibiting the online social networks usage. It gives a brief overview of the academic literature on the diffusion online social networks. The conduct and findings of a mail survey are then reported. The paper concludes that online social networks in general and Facebook in particular will become an extremely important tool in the future, with the drivers overcoming the barriers in influencing the rate. Furthermore, the study has enhanced previous theories related to Facebook, and it offers a platform for further investigations to take shape in light of what has been discussed and analysed.

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Method of Evaluation of Social Network User Sentiments Based on Fuzzy Logic

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.685.847 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 685 ◽

pp. 847-851 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

E.E. Luneva ◽

P.I. Banokin ◽

A.A. Yefremov ◽

Thanassis Tiropanis

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Fuzzy Logic ◽

Social Network ◽

Online Social Networks ◽

Mechanical Engineering ◽

Online Social Network ◽

The Past ◽

Method Of Evaluation

The article introduces a method of online social network users’ sentiment evaluation. The advantage of the proposed method consists in its ability to take into account user’s influence as well as the fact that a user could be an author of several messages. Results presented in this paper have been used in the past in mechanical engineering to analyze reviews on products as well as in robotics for developing user communication interfaces. The paper shows the steps of calculation of the sentiment of messages on a certain topic in online social networks. The proposed method is deployed with a view of developing analytic tools and visualizations that make use of more than one such datasets in Web Observatories.

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