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Reciprocal attention and norm of reciprocity in blogging networks

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  • Alexia Gaudeul

    () (GSBC, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

  • Chiara Peroni

    () (Statec & Centre de Recherche Publique Henri Tudor)

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Bloggers devote significant time not only producing content for others to read, watch or listen to, but also paying attention to and engaging in interactions with other bloggers. We hope to throw light not only on the factors that gain bloggers significant readership and lively interactions with their audience, but also on the rules that govern their relations with others. We relate bloggers' activity with the size and structure of their network of fellow bloggers. A blogger's readership increases with his activity, while bloggers who read back proportionally fewer of their readers tend also to be more active. We find evidence that those bloggers who read back proportionally fewer of their readers have less readers than bloggers who reciprocate more, but tend to receive more comments per posts.

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Article provided by AccessEcon in its journal Economics Bulletin.

Volume (Year): 30 (2010)
Issue (Month): 3 ()
Pages: 2230-2248

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Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-10-00198

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Keywords: Blog; Community; Interaction; Internet; LiveJournal; Media; Network; Reciprocity; Social Network; Web 2.0;

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  1. Reciprocity in blogging networks
    by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2010-05-10 14:13:00
  2. Reciprocal Attention and Norm of Reciprocity in Blogging Networks
    by jccavalcanti in JCC.com on 2010-04-14 15:23:12
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Cited by:
  1. Alexia Gaudeul & Caterina Giannetti, 2011. "The role of reciprocation in social network formation, with an application to blogging," Jena Economic Research Papers 2011-015, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics.
  2. Antoci, Angelo & Sabatini, Fabio & Sodini, Mauro, 2011. "Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era," MPRA Paper 34232, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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