{"id":2096,"date":"2010-03-08T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T03:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:08:30","slug":"social-media-subcultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Social media subcultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/boraz\">Bora Zivovic<\/a> recently pointed out an <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/2009\/01\/the_structure_of_scientific_bl.php\">interesting study<\/a> by Christina Pikas, which looked at link and comment connections between science blogs to look for clusters in the community of science bloggers.  Her study revealed a few interesting things. Scientists read blogs by discipline, not just their own subdiscipline, but a variety of related subfields. In addition, there is a cluster of science blogs by women across multiple fields who comment on each others blogs especially often.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the Clay Shirky popularized the fact that there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/writings\/powerlaw_weblog.html\">power laws<\/a> in the distribution of attention in social media, which focused attention at the top of the fame pyramid I&#8217;ve been wanting to see more studies like Pikas, which focus instead further out on the curve, closer to the long tail. Instead of showing who&#8217;s at the top of the pyramid &#8211; information that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=848\">many people already know<\/a>, use tools to discover and understand subcommunities, where a lot of the interesting human interchange, culture, and creativity.  Within these subcultures, a closer look can show the distinctive attributes of the community itself. It&#8217;s helpful that Pikas herself is a member of the science blogging community &#8211; she knows enough about it to interpret the results of the social network analysis in a meaningful way.  <\/p>\n<p>A lot of the interesting dynamics in social media is at the level of subcommunity and microfame. More like this please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bora Zivovic recently pointed out an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-xO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}