<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cameron Marlow</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Audience, structure and authority in the weblog community</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">{54th Annual Conference of the International Communications Association}</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">blogs</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">May</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New Orleans, LA</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The weblog medium, while fundamentally an innovation in personal publishing has also 
come to engender a new form of social interaction on the web: a massively distributed 
but completely connected conversation covering every imaginable topic of interest. A 
byproduct of this ongoing communication is the set of hyperlinks made between weblogs 
in the exchange of dialog, a form of social acknowledgement on the part of authors. This 
paper seeks to understand the social implications of linking in the community, drawing 
from the hyperlink citations collected by the Blogdex project over the past 3 years. Social 
network analysis is employed to describe the resulting social structure, and two 
measures of authority are explored: popularity, as measured by webloggers’ public 
affiliations and influence measured by citation of each others writing. These metrics are 
evaluated with respect to each other and with the authority conferred by references in 
the popular press. </style></abstract></record></records></xml>
