Brainstorming MCSN
Please add your contributions to this page. Each contribution in 4 parts (but feel free to leave these sketchy...)
- Phenomenon from MCSN
- Research question to ask about this phenomenon
- Model: How would you frame this question in terms of social networks?
- What sort of method can you propose for answering it? (how would you gather and analyze the data?)
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For example, here's one from Michael:
- Phenomenon: Musician-celebrities on Twitter
- Research question: how does the structure of Twitter connections differ by music genre - or does it?
- Model: musician-celebrity is a vertex, as is everyone they follow. Lines are arcs, defined by "following".
- Method: extract these egonets from Twitter, and analyze density (to what extent do those they follow actually follow each other?)
- Phenomenon: Artists on Facebook
- Research question: How artists attract more fans - just a friend of friend or by the art genres?
- Model: Artists and everyone that as a fan is vertex, by having the fans following the artist.
- Method: Analyze the specialties of the artist and the interest of the fans.
Chee Meng Low
From Alyssa Baker
- Phenom: Amateur musicians gaining exposure through "friends" via social network platform (Facebook, etc).
- Research Question: How does sharing music with friends via SN serve to elevate an amateur musician's potential career or popularity? Is it effective?
- Model: Amateur musician as vertex. SN friends that have been exposed to their music are also vertices. Lines are mono- and bi-directional arcs, representing those that have shared (forwarded) the musician's performances/songs with their SN friends, via SN platform.
- Method: Analyze a correlation (if any) between the success of the musician's career/ SN popularity, and how many people have been exposed to or have forwarded the musician's performances to other SN users.
From Nadine Aulin
- Phenomenon: Musicians gaining popularity and exposure through "hits" on youtube.
- Research Questions: How can a musician or upcoming musician achieve popularity or a career by uploading their songs onto youtube?
- Model: The musician is the vertex. The "hits" or amount of times the song has been viewed by any number of people and any amount of times by individuals are the lines. Lines represented can be "likes","dislikes" or "shared". These lines would be mono-directional and can increase depending on how many people are exposed to the song and how many times each person listens to it.
- Method: Analyze the correlation between the musicians success with their youtube video and how many hits they have received that are "likes", "dislikes", or "shared".
