[lbo-talk] Small Group Of People Dominate Some Internet Discussions

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 23:19:33 PDT 2011


And in related news:

"The presence of an attractive woman elevates testosterone levels and physical risk taking in young men, according to a recent study in the inaugural issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100319115715.htm

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:22 AM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:


> Researcher Itai Himelboim gathered eight million messages posted to 35
> political and philosophical newsgroups—like alt.politics.usa—over a six-year
> period. And he analyzed the connections among the messages. Turns out that
> 50 percent of all replies were directed at just 2 percent of people who
> started threads, and who thus came to control the discussion. And the larger
> the newsgroup, the more polarized this effect became.
>
> And for some recursive value:
>
> > But these newsgroup dominators weren't posting much original content.
> Sixty percent of their posts were just content lifted from traditional news
> sources like the New York Times. Which is good news for the news business,
> the author says.
>

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