Exploratory study of the network structure of a USENET newsgroup : a social network analysis approach.

• Main Author: Tan, Shalyn Gwen Swee Hoong.
• Other Authors: Lee, Chu Keong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1750
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the increasing use of internet, sociologists have recognised that it has become an avenue embedded with new opportunities for forming social communities on the web. Through these cyber interactions, naturally occurring social communities takes place. Previous studies on the structure of USENET...