blogosphere: blogosphere

blogosphereR Documentation

blogosphere

Description

blogosphere network

Usage

data(blogosphere, package = "SNA4DSData")

Details

blogosphere network, in igraph-format.

The network consists of 1490 blogsites connected by 19090 directed edges (one blogsite linking to another).

The vertex attributes are

  • idid of the blogsite

  • labelurl of the blog

  • value(numeric, political preference of the blog: 0 for liberal/democrat, 1 for conservative/republican)

  • sourcecharacter, weblog directories

  • partycharacter, "liberal" or "conservative"

  • colorcharacter, "blue" for liberal, "red" for conservative

The edge attributes are

  • withinlogical, whether the edge connects two blogs with the same political point-of-view

  • within_republicanlogical, whether the edge connects two republican blogsites

  • within_democrat(logical, whether the edge connects two democratic blogsites)

Note: there are loops, since some blogs refer to themselves.

References

, Lada Adamic & Natalie Glance, The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: Divided they blog, 2005, LinkeKDD '05: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop op Link discovery.


SNAnalyst/SNA4DSData documentation built on Aug. 19, 2024, 6:49 a.m.