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Moving Structure – A Possibility of Positional Analysis of Discontinuous Process Data.The Mailing List Example.
PD Dr. Christian StegbauerFB GesellschaftswissenschaftenInstitut für Gesellschafts- und [email protected]
Dipl. Math. Alexander RauschHochschulrechenzentrum
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Studies on social network dynamics
• are normally based on data collected at just a few
definite points of time
• acquisition of data costs much time and effort
• Suitor et al. (1997: 6) „Given the cost and complexity
of network studies, time-series analysis will probably
be the rarest form of study of network change.“
• recently: increasing number of network dynamics
studies
• but mostly: focus on the change of individual
behavior in respect to the change of network
properties
• almost no studies on positional change in social
networks over time
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Objectives
• methodological:analysis of (relational) discontinuous process datato unveil structural change in the associated network
• empirical:contribution to communication research: dynamicsof internet based discussion groups– How to describe the life cycle of a discussion group?– How and why do discussion groups collapse?– Do positions in internet fora change over time?
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Discontinuous process data
• discontinuous data flow:The submission and reception of an eMail is a single event, that occures to a definite point in time.
• process data:Communication in a discussion group is a process, that depends on the development of the relations between the participants and the subjects already discussed.
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Creating a network from a mailing list archive
• We only use– the address-fields to identify the originators of the mails– the date-fields, to determine the specific dates at which the
mails were submitted and – the subject-fields to identify threads
from the mail-headers.
• We say that there is a relation between a pair of users, if both users participate jointly in at least one thread. The strength of this relation is defined as the number of threads shared by these two users.
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The “sliding window” – approach
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One blockmodel for 38 time-frames
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Visualisation 1: “animated graph”
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Visualisation 2: “coloured matrix”
Mailing list: Critical Café
Column: one of the 38 overlapping three months wide time-framesRow: one of the 147 participants
Coding of positions:
red centregreen peripheryblank not active
First period: 11-1995 12-1995 01-1996Last period: 12-1998 01-1999 02-1999
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How to get rid of artefacts?
• If a participant is active just in one month, he will be shown in three consecutive time-frames. This produces trails in the diagram, which actually contain no infor-mation. We call this effect ghosting.
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Visualisation 3: “coloured matrix”
Mailing list: Critical Caféactive participants only
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A closer view at the centre
Active participants who are affiliated to the centre for at least one month.
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Summary
• We started with two objectives:First:We wanted to present a methodological approach for the description and analysis of structural change in social networks. We believe the "moving structure" - approach gives an idea in which direction research should be promoted.
Second:We wanted to make a contribution to communication research. In our presentation we showed, how the dynamics of positions in communication fora can be described.