Blogosphere and its Exploration

• Main Authors: Meinel, Christoph (Author), Broß, Justus (Author), Berger, Philipp (Author), Hennig, Patrick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Science.; Data mining.; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; Communication.; Sociology.; Mass media.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Computers and Society.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Media Research.; Computer Science, general.; Science, general.

This book represents an attempt to fully review the phenomenon of the blogosphere. The intention is to provide a reliable guide to understanding and analyzing the world of the unimaginable number of diverse blogs, each consisting of innumerable posts, which in their entirety form the blogosphere. We...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Blogosphere
• Understanding the Blogosphere
• Micro- and Macro-Perspective
• Areas of the Blogosphere.- Introduction to Important Areas of the Blogosphere
• Docu-Blog Use Case: The It-Gipfelblog
• Edu-Blog Use Case: InternetWorking Blog and HPI MOOCs
• Marketing-Blog Use Case: SAP HANA Blog
• Ego-Blog Use Case: Heinz-Paul Bonn
• Corporate-Blog Use Case: SAP Blog.- The Explorer's Path through the Blogosphere
• Challenge of Exploring the Blogosphere
• BlogIntelligence Portal
• DAta Extraction
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• The Secret Depths of the Blogosphere
• Analyzing and Forecasting Trends
• Judging Consistency and Expertise of Blogs
• Expected Growth and Future Structure
• Future Influence and Usage Patterns
• Vision of Analysis and Monitoring
• Bibliography.