The Distribution of Online Reputation: Audience and Influence of Musicians on MySpace

  • Beuscart Jean-Samuel
  • , Couronné Thomas

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Abstract

The user-generated content platforms like MySpace, YouTube or Flickr produce emergent sociability patterns and behaviors, which are well observed in various studies. Few of them deal with the nature of the reputation in these large social networks. In this work, we extract a sample of MySpace Music by parsing the artists' pages and following the “best friend” links. The study of the network shows that the online fame is composed by two independent features: the audience, dominated by the major companies' artists, and the influence, more associated with independent labels. We observe that most of the audience is focused on a few stars: the tail of MySpace Music is long, but flat. The network structure shows that artists tend to link to artists of similar reputation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009
PublisherAAAI Press
Pages187-190
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781577354215
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 May 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009 - San Jose, United States
Duration: 17 May 200920 May 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009

Conference

Conference3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose
Period17/05/0920/05/09

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