In this paper, we develop a simple model to study and analyze communication dynamics in
the blogosphere and use these dynamics to determine interesting correlations with stock …

The number of Web blogs is growing extremely fast, thus this phenomenon cannot be
ignored. This paper discusses the issue through monitoring a set of blogs for a two months …

This article investigates the uses and motivations for connecting to blogs. Rather than
relying on motivations from preexisting scales measuring traditional media or Internet use …

We develop and estimate a dynamic structural framework to analyze the social-media
content creation and consumption behavior of employees within an enterprise. We focus, in …

I recently was part of a 90-minute research presentation on social media at Babson
College's Center for Information Management Studies (CIMS). As I was presenting, some …

Some of the world's most profitable firms own platforms that exhibit network effects. A
platform exhibits network effects if, the more that people use it, the more valuable it becomes …

Blog has been one of the fastest growing applications in the Internet. Content provided by
users has also been an important source of information. Current studies, however, can not …

This article proposes a general model to analyze and compare different uses of the blog
format. Based on ideas from sociological structuration theory, as well as on existing blog …

Innovations in web-based technology have generated new channels for communicative
purposes. Blogs provide organisations a unique opportunity for informal knowledge sharing …

How do blogs cite and influence each other? How do such links evolve? Does the popularity
of old blog posts drop exponentially with time? These are some of the questions that we …