The platform effect: Analysing user activity on tumblr
The platform effect: Analysing user activity on tumblr
One of the fundamental aspects of online social network platforms is that they provide a number of core affordances. The actual mechanisms of these affordances vary in different platforms but their main purposes are similar: allowing users to create content and connect with each other. In this paper, we study user activity on Tumblr, we analyse user activity around the most popular posts in one year, reflecting on the effects of Tumblr’s affordances, communication style, and content discovery mechanisms on its users’ behaviour. Our findings show that the majority of user activity on Tumblr is non-verbal, users reblog and like posts but they rarely engage in conversations with others.
Social network analysis, Tumblr, User activity
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Alrajebah, Nora
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Carr, Leslie
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Tiropanis, Thanassis
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2018
Alrajebah, Nora
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Carr, Leslie
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Tiropanis, Thanassis
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Alrajebah, Nora, Carr, Leslie and Tiropanis, Thanassis
(2018)
The platform effect: Analysing user activity on tumblr.
Bodrunova, S.
(ed.)
In Internet Science: INSCI 2018.
vol. 11193 LNCS,
Springer.
.
(doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01437-7_13).
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Abstract
One of the fundamental aspects of online social network platforms is that they provide a number of core affordances. The actual mechanisms of these affordances vary in different platforms but their main purposes are similar: allowing users to create content and connect with each other. In this paper, we study user activity on Tumblr, we analyse user activity around the most popular posts in one year, reflecting on the effects of Tumblr’s affordances, communication style, and content discovery mechanisms on its users’ behaviour. Our findings show that the majority of user activity on Tumblr is non-verbal, users reblog and like posts but they rarely engage in conversations with others.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 25 September 2018
Published date: 2018
Keywords:
Social network analysis, Tumblr, User activity
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Local EPrints ID: 427084
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/427084
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Nora Alrajebah
Author:
Thanassis Tiropanis
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S. Bodrunova
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